@article{Jumbe:230607,
      recid = {230607},
      author = {Jumbe, Charles Blessings Laurence and Nyambose, Wanangwa  Hawire},
      title = {Does Conservation Agriculture Enhance Household Food  Security? Evidence from Smallholder Farmers in Nkhotakota  in Malawi},
      journal = {Sustainable Agriculture Research},
      address = {2016},
      number = {526-2016-37750},
      year = {2016},
      abstract = {The paper identified factors that influence the adoption  and contribution of conservation agriculture (CA) on  household food security using household-level data  collected in 2010 from Nkhotakota District, Central Malawi  where Total Land Care (TLC) a local Non-governmental  Organization (NGO) has been promoting CA. To determine  factors that influence adoption of CA, a Probit regression  model was used. Then, the paper compared estimated  production function between adopters and non- adopters of  CA. The Probit results show that age and education level of  the household head, number of extension visits, and land  holding size are important factors that influence farmers’  adoption of CA in the study area. Further results showed  that CA adopters had more than 50% higher maize production  than that of non-adopters from the Cobb-Douglas production  estimates. From the findings, there should be improvement  in the delivery of extension services in the promotion and  dissemination of agricultural technology to foster wider  adoption and improve food security status in the study  areas. This can be achieved through increased number of  extension workers, increase number of demonstrations when  introducing CA technology and improved access to formal  education. Our overall results show consistently that CA  adopters are better off than non-adopters in various  aspects such as maize production, per capita maize  requirements and meal frequency. As such, the promoting and  up-scaling of CA technologies to smallholder farmers should  be intensified as an effective strategy for addressing  household food insecurity than the promotion of chemical  fertilizers use through programs such as the Farm Inputs  Subsidy Program, which is not only unsustainable, but also  inappropriate for poor resource farmers.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/230607},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.230607},
}