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  • 标题:Diffusion of water harvesting for rainfed agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: Case of zaï practice in Burkina Faso
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  • 作者:Beteo Zongo ; Omer S.Combary ; Souleymane Ouédraogo
  • 期刊名称:Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics
  • 电子版ISSN:2006-9774
  • 出版年度:2022
  • 卷号:14
  • 期号:2
  • 页码:50-59
  • DOI:10.5897/JDAE2021.1317
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Academic Journals
  • 摘要:After the droughts of the 1970s, the so called zaï technique (small water harvesting pits), which is a water harvesting technique, has been promoted to farmers in several Sahelian countries to allow rainfed crops to adapt to dry spells. Its temporal diffusion remains a subject of little research. This study highlights the determinants of zaï diffusion in the Sahelian and Sudano-Sahelian zones in Burkina Faso. It is based on a survey of 629 farmers divided into different categories according to the diffusion theory analyzed by using a multinomial logit model. The analysis reveals that 49.1% of sampled households have adopted the practice of zaï in the past four decades on a fraction of their farm. The adopters can be classified as such: innovators (0.5%), early adopters (2.5%), late adopters (8.3%) and laggards (37.8%). Factors determining diffusion of zaï practice are the characteristics of agro-climatic zones, membership in farmers’ organization and age of households’ heads.
  • 关键词:Agriculture;adoption;spread;rainwater;zaï
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