000187624 001__ 187624 000187624 005__ 20210819133154.0 000187624 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.22004/ag.econ.187624 000187624 037__ $$a303-2016-4792 000187624 041__ $$aeng 000187624 245__ $$aA Farm Household Analysis of Land Use and Soil Conservation Decisions of Smallholder Farmers in the Ethiopian Highlands 000187624 260__ $$c1998-01 000187624 269__ $$a1998-01 000187624 270__ $$pHolden, Stein 000187624 300__ $$a20 000187624 336__ $$aConference Paper/ Presentation 000187624 520__ $$aPeasant households ' land use and conservation decisions are likely to be influenced by their dual economic engagement in production (and labour demand) and consumption (and labour supply) decisions. Home production of subsistence consumption, credit and liquidity constraints, etc. within imperfect rural markets are some of the factors that cause nonseparability in production and consumption decisions. This paper develops a non-separable farm household model based on linear programming to study peasants ' conservation decisions. Peasants ' short and long-term responses to alternative scenarios that incorporate the user costs of soil erosion at varying levels of average anticipated effects of conservation on production, discount rates, and planning horizons were analysed. Results reaffirm the strong need to introduce dual-purpose conservation technologies that conserve the soil while also enhancing crop yields in the short-term to make conservation attractive to the smallholder. Under plausible assumptions and constraints faced by peasant households, conservation fails to be a preferred option when average expected yields with conservation are lower or similar to that without conservation. 000187624 546__ $$aEnglish 000187624 650__ $$aFarm Management 000187624 650__ $$aLand Economics/Use 000187624 700__ $$aShiferaw, Bekele 000187624 700__ $$aHolden, Stein 000187624 773__ $$dJanuary 1998 000187624 8564_ $$9948cfca4-cc9b-47ac-aedf-7763f1ddc130$$s11744460$$uhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/187624/files/A%20Farm%20Household.pdf 000187624 887__ $$ahttp://purl.umn.edu/187624 000187624 909CO $$ooai:ageconsearch.umn.edu:187624$$pGLOBAL_SET 000187624 912__ $$nSubmitted by Allison Hasslen (hassl020@umn.edu) on 2014-10-22T18:28:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 A Farm Household analysis of land use and soil conservation decisions of smallholder farmers in the Ethiopian highlands.pdf: 1333064 bytes, checksum: 0c927bc8887ad04a13fc15e799d3591e (MD5) 000187624 912__ $$nMade available in DSpace on 2014-10-22T18:28:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 A Farm Household analysis of land use and soil conservation decisions of smallholder farmers in the Ethiopian highlands.pdf: 1333064 bytes, checksum: 0c927bc8887ad04a13fc15e799d3591e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1998-01 000187624 980__ $$a303 000187624 982__ $$gAfrica Farm Management Association (AFMA)>1998 Fourth AFMA Congress, January 26-30, 1998, Stellenbosch, South Africa