Farmers in the Sahel have been acknowledged for reclaiming degraded lands and improving food security by ingeniously modifying traditional agroforestry, water, and soil management practices. Despite the advantages offered by this range of farming techniques, their adoption rate is influenced by several factors. Using multivariate probit models and a correlation coefficient, this article examines the factors influencing the adoption of five land management practices based on 220 household and 40 farm surveys in four adjacent rural communities in southern Burkina Faso. The model results indicate that household labor force, education of household head, land tenure security, livestock holding, and membership in farmers’ groups influence the adoption of zaï practice, composting, improved fallow, stone bunds, and live hedges. However, two of the surveyed factors ‐ number of farms and visit by agricultural extension staff during the 12 months prior to the survey ‐ were not significant. Furthermore, a significant correlation was found between different land management practices, e.g., the decision to practice zaï is significantly linked to that of live hedges and composting. Zaï practice and stone bunds are considered labor intensive, which explains their significant correlations with household labor force at the 1% and 5% levels of significance, respectively.

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布基纳法索农村地区的土地管理：社会文化和制度因素的作用

萨赫勒地区的农民因巧妙地修改了传统的农林业，水和土壤管理方式而开垦了退化的土地并改善了粮食安全，因此得到了公认。尽管这种耕作技术提供了许多优势，但其采用率却受到几个因素的影响。本文使用多元概率模型和相关系数，基于布基纳法索南部四个相邻农村社区的220户家庭和40个农场调查，研究了影响五种土地管理实践采用的因素。模型结果表明，家庭劳动力，家庭户主的教育，土地权属安全，牲畜持有以及加入农民团体会影响采摘实践，堆肥，休闲，石障和活篱的采用。然而，被调查的两个因素-在调查前的12个月中农场的数量和农业推广人员的来访-不重要。此外，在不同的土地管理实践之间发现了显着的相关性，例如，实施zaï的决定与活篱和堆肥的决定密切相关。Zaï实践和石堤被认为是劳动密集型的，这解释了它们与家庭劳动力在显着性水平分别为1％和5％时的显着相关性。