Questioning the link between tenure security and sustainable land management in cocoa landscapes in Ghana
Questioning the link between tenure security and sustainable land management in cocoa landscapes in Ghana
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10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.104913
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发表时间：
2020-06-01
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6.9
通讯作者：
Malhi, Yadvinder
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作者：
Asaaga, Festus A.;Hirons, Mark A.;Malhi, Yadvinder
可持续土地管理日益被认为是加速减贫和实现可持续发展的可行途径，特别是在全球南方国家。尽管努力推动SLM实践，但其采用受到极大限制，围绕土地所有权在农民决策中的作用存在争论。根据使用权担保的三方概念，我们区分了三类使用权担保：1)法律担保；2)语境/事实安全，以及3)感知使用权安全，以考察加纳小农对土地管理投资的影响因素。本文通过对796个地块的380项调查和一系列关键信息访谈，探讨了土地所有制如何影响农民在地块层面采用SLM的投资决策。研究结果表明，不同类型的SLM投资（包括土壤改良、农场植树和自然树种保护）是由农民进行的，甚至是那些认为自己的权属权利不安全的农民。然而，研究结果表明，租住权安全的不同组成部分影响SLM实践的采用，其方式在租住权安全的不同组成部分或特定的SLM实践之间并不一致。此外，权属保障与土地资源管理投资之间的关系还受到其他重要的非权属因素（包括获得信贷、现代化农业投入和有针对性的推广服务支持）的调节。研究结果表明，土地权属政策将带来与土地保护投资有关的一系列结果（积极和消极的）。这意味着更深入地思考SLM干预措施的优先事项，特别是在加纳和SSA等新兴国家。总的来说，这些发现对于重新设计特定环境和适当的土地使用政策干预措施，解决采用SLM的障碍是重要的。(C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd.版权所有。
Sustainable land management (SLM) is increasingly recognized as viable pathway to accelerate poverty reduction and achieving sustainable development, particularly in the global South. Despite efforts to promote SLM practices, their adoption has been extremely limited with debates revolving around the role of land tenure in farmer's decision-making. Drawing on a tripartite conception of tenure security, we distinguish between three categories of tenure security: 1) legal security; 2) contextual/defacto security, and 3) perceived tenure security to examine factors affecting smallholders' investment in SLM in Ghana. The paper draws on 380 surveys covering 796 plots and a series of key informant interview to investigate how land tenure shapes farmers' investment decisions regarding SLM adoption at the plot level. The findings of the study demonstrate that different types of SLM investments (including soil improvements, onfarm tree planting and conservation of naturally-occurring tree species) were undertaken by farmers, even those who perceived their tenure rights as insecure. However, the results demonstrate that different components of tenure security influence adoption of SLM practices in ways which are not consistent across the different components of tenure security or specific SLM practices. Furthermore, the relationship between tenure security and SLM investments is also mediated by other important non-tenurial factors (including access to credit, modernised agricultural inputs and targeted extension service support). The findings suggest that land tenure policies will deliver a range of outcomes (both positive and negative) pertaining to land conservation investments. This means thinking more deeply about priorities with respect to SLM interventions, particularly in emerging contexts like Ghana and SSA generally. Overall, these findings are important for redesigning context- specific and appropriate land-use policy interventions that address barriers to SLM adoption. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.