A pro-poor biofuel? Household wealth and farmer participation in Jatropha curcas seed production and exchange in eastern Zambia
A pro-poor biofuel? Household wealth and farmer participation in Jatropha curcas seed production and exchange in eastern Zambia
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有利于穷人的生物燃料？
DOI：
10.1016/j.biombioe.2014.01.051
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
6
通讯作者：
Kuntashula E
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作者：
Kuntashula E
当一种新作物作为扶贫作物被推广时，如赞比亚农村社区的麻风树（Jatropha curcas），就有必要探讨可能影响同质群体和异质财富类别采用这种作物的因素。这是因为较贫穷的农民可能不愿意投资于任何未经试验的创新，主要是因为他们的生产要素有限。从赞比亚东部随机选择的249名农民的家庭调查的证据表明，一些因素影响农民在拥抱J. curcasseed生产和交换活动因财富而异。虽然与家庭劳动力供应有关的因素是参与的关键J.在最贫穷的农民中，对这些活动产生重大影响的是户主的性别和获得非农业收入的机会。研究结果进一步表明，那些相对富裕的农民是最有可能从J。收集和销售活动。条件好的家庭从树篱收获更多的种子，因为他们有更多的劳动力，目前收获种子并不限于私人树篱。进一步的证据表明，即使家庭成员较少，条件差的人也可以参与种植树篱。这是一个可以帮助最贫穷的农民的途径，特别是当财产权被剥夺时。curcashedges安全。
When a new crop is being promoted as a pro-poor, like in the case ofJatropha curcas(J. curcas) in Zambian rural communities, it is pertinent to explore factors that might affect its adoption, on not only homogenous groups but also heterogeneous wealth categories. This is because poorer farmers may be reluctant to invest in any untried innovations mainly due to their limited factors of production. Evidence from a household survey of 249 randomly selected farmers in eastern Zambia indicates that some factors that affect the farmers in embracingJ. curcasseed production and exchange activities differ according to wealth. While factors related to household labour availability were crucial to involvement inJ. curcascollection and exchange activities among poorest farmers, it was gender of the household heads and access to off-farm income that significantly influenced these activities among the well endowed farmers. Results further indicate that the farmers who are relatively well endowed are the ones most likely to benefit more fromJ. curcascollection and selling activities. Well endowed households harvested more seed from hedges because they have more labour and currently harvesting of seed is not restricted to private hedges. Further evidence show that even with fewer household members, the poorly endowed could be involved in planting of hedges. This is an avenue that can help the poorest farmers especially when property rights overJ. curcashedges are secured.
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