@article{Shiferaw:187624,
      recid = {187624},
      author = {Shiferaw, Bekele and Holden, Stein},
      title = {A Farm Household Analysis of Land Use and Soil  Conservation Decisions of Smallholder Farmers in the  Ethiopian Highlands},
      address = {1998-01},
      number = {303-2016-4792},
      pages = {20},
      year = {1998},
      abstract = {Peasant households ' land use and conservation decisions  are likely to be influenced by their
dual economic  engagement in production (and labour demand) and  consumption (and labour
supply) decisions. Home production  of subsistence consumption, credit and  liquidity
constraints, etc. within imperfect rural markets  are some of the factors that cause nonseparability
in  production and consumption decisions. This paper develops a  non-separable
farm household model based on linear  programming to study peasants ' conservation
decisions.  Peasants ' short and long-term responses to alternative  scenarios that incorporate
the user costs of soil erosion  at varying levels of average anticipated effects of  conservation
on production, discount rates, and planning  horizons were analysed. Results reaffirm the
strong need to  introduce dual-purpose conservation technologies that  conserve the soil while
also enhancing crop yields in the  short-term to make conservation attractive to  the
smallholder. Under plausible assumptions and  constraints faced by peasant households,
conservation fails  to be a preferred option when average expected yields with  conservation
are lower or similar to that without  conservation.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/187624},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.187624},
}