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Tesfaye Chofana Cholo is assistant professor at the Development Economics Department, Ethiopian Civil Service University. Tesfaye involved in research focused on climate change adaptation, food security and farmers’ productivity and Technical efficiency. Besides, his research focused on rural entrepreneurship, innovation, technology transfer, university industry linkage, gender equity, rural employment and sustainable land management and adoption of agricultural technologies. Tesfaye is also currently working on how to bridge science to policy.
Although barley production is vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, households in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia rely on barley for their diet and allocate most of their highly-fragmented land to barley production. Moreover, farmers alter land management practices as a strategy to adjust to climate change and variability. However, to what extent land fragmentation and land management jointly influence the technical efficiency of barley production is unknown. In addition, it is unidentified whether technical efficiency is uniform across multiple separated plots. In this study, we adapted two stochastic frontier panel models on plot-level cross-sectional data to investigate this. The model results indicate that fragmentation influences the effect of land management practices on efficiency. The study found that efficiency was not uniform across different plots and for different farmers and showed the existence of large yield gaps. To close these gaps, policies designed to address the specific components of inefficiency need to be implemented.
Tesfaye Cholo; Jack Peerlings; Luuk Fleskens. Land Fragmentation, Technical Efficiency, and Adaptation to Climate Change by Farmers in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia. Sustainability 2020, 12, 10304 .
AMA StyleTesfaye Cholo, Jack Peerlings, Luuk Fleskens. Land Fragmentation, Technical Efficiency, and Adaptation to Climate Change by Farmers in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (24):10304.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTesfaye Cholo; Jack Peerlings; Luuk Fleskens. 2020. "Land Fragmentation, Technical Efficiency, and Adaptation to Climate Change by Farmers in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia." Sustainability 12, no. 24: 10304.
The objective of this study is to assess the existence of gendered climate change adaptation practices of smallholder farmers in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia. We hypothesized that smallholders’ adaptation practices are gendered because of land fragmentation and gendered division of labour. To explore this, we considered sustainable land management practices as a tool for sustainable adaptation and assessed the effect of land management practices deployed and land fragmentation on intra-household time allocation. The results indicate that although land fragmentation increased hours worked by men and women significantly, fragmentation increased the working hours of men more than women. Application of a larger number of sustainable land management practices increases the mean working hours of women, but leaves unaffected the working hours of men, implying that adaptation practices are gender-biased. Therefore, this study can guide land management decisions by pointing out that fragmentation results in long working hours and adaptation practices may disproportionately affect women.
Tesfaye C. Cholo; Jack Peerlings; Luuk Fleskens. Gendered climate change adaptation practices in fragmented farm fields of Gamo Highlands, Ethiopia. Climate and Development 2019, 12, 323 -331.
AMA StyleTesfaye C. Cholo, Jack Peerlings, Luuk Fleskens. Gendered climate change adaptation practices in fragmented farm fields of Gamo Highlands, Ethiopia. Climate and Development. 2019; 12 (4):323-331.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTesfaye C. Cholo; Jack Peerlings; Luuk Fleskens. 2019. "Gendered climate change adaptation practices in fragmented farm fields of Gamo Highlands, Ethiopia." Climate and Development 12, no. 4: 323-331.
Household food security among smallholder farmers is sensitive to a variable and changing climate, requiring farmers in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia to adopt new land management practices to improve food security. Agricultural land in the Gamo Highlands is highly fragmented. The extent to which land fragmentation moderates the food security effects of sustainable land management practices is unknown. This study used probit and Poisson models to explain this relationship. The study found that food insecurity was severe during the food shortfall season. Land fragmentation provides more potential opportunities for improving food security than challenges. Furthermore, sustainable land management practices had both positive and negative effects on food security and their effects were conditioned by the magnitude of land fragmentation. Reducing severe land fragmentation through the assembly of small parcels into larger heterogeneous plot clusters could enhance food security by exploiting synergies between adaptation practices and land fragmentation. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved
Tesfaye C. Cholo; Luuk Fleskens; Diana Sietz; Jack Peerlings. Land fragmentation, climate change adaptation, and food security in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia. Agricultural Economics 2018, 50, 39 -49.
AMA StyleTesfaye C. Cholo, Luuk Fleskens, Diana Sietz, Jack Peerlings. Land fragmentation, climate change adaptation, and food security in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia. Agricultural Economics. 2018; 50 (1):39-49.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTesfaye C. Cholo; Luuk Fleskens; Diana Sietz; Jack Peerlings. 2018. "Land fragmentation, climate change adaptation, and food security in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia." Agricultural Economics 50, no. 1: 39-49.
Land fragmentation is high and increasing in the Gamo Highlands of southwest Ethiopia. We postulate that this substantial land fragmentation is obstructing the adoption of sustainable land management practices as climate adaptation measures. To explore this, a mixed method study was conducted with emphasis on a multivariate probit model. The results indicate that farmers adapt to climate change and variability they perceive. According to the probit model, there is no clear answer to the question whether land fragmentation facilitates or obstructs adoption of sustainable land management practices. Yet, a qualitative analysis found that farmers perceive land fragmentation as an obstacle to land improvement as adaptation strategy. Moreover, farmers invest more in land improvement on plots close to their homestead than in remote plots. However, the higher land fragmentation also promoted crop diversification, manure application and terracing. Although exogenous to farmers, we therefore suggest that land fragmentation can be deployed in climate change adaptation planning. This can be done through voluntary assembling of small neighboring plots in clusters of different microclimates to encourage investment in remote fields and to collectively optimize the benefits of fragmentation to adaptation.
Tesfaye C. Cholo; Luuk Fleskens; Diana Sietz; Jack Peerlings. Is Land Fragmentation Facilitating or Obstructing Adoption of Climate Adaptation Measures in Ethiopia? Sustainability 2018, 10, 2120 .
AMA StyleTesfaye C. Cholo, Luuk Fleskens, Diana Sietz, Jack Peerlings. Is Land Fragmentation Facilitating or Obstructing Adoption of Climate Adaptation Measures in Ethiopia? Sustainability. 2018; 10 (7):2120.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTesfaye C. Cholo; Luuk Fleskens; Diana Sietz; Jack Peerlings. 2018. "Is Land Fragmentation Facilitating or Obstructing Adoption of Climate Adaptation Measures in Ethiopia?" Sustainability 10, no. 7: 2120.