1. Influence of extension methods
and approaches on adoption of
agroforestry practices in Zambia
Gillian Kabwe, Hugh Bigsby, Ross Cullen
Presented at the World Congress of Agroforestry
10-14 February, 2014

2. Outline of presentation

Background

Methods of data collection and analysis

Key findings

Conclusions

3. Background
 Agroforestry
technologies have potential to address
smallholder farmer challenges
(Sanchez, 1995; Cooper et al., 1996; Kang & Akinnifesi, 2000; Franzel et al., 2001;
Garrity, 2006; Race, 2009)
 Low land productivity
 Low crop yields
 inadequate fodder for domestic animal feed
 Insecure household energy
 Lack of cash to meet basic needs
 Trialling
has been found to low; those adopting
often make this part of their operation

4. Trialling and adoption of agroforestry

5. Study methods
Multi-stage sampling for selecting farmers
Purposeful

sampling of districts and agricultural camps
Eight (8) agricultural camps from four (4) districts:

Chadzombe and Kumadzi (Chadiza)

Feni and Kapita (Chipata)

Chilembwe and Mwanamphangwe (Katete)

Chataika and Mondola (Petauke)
Random

sampling of households
388 farm families: 57 percent male and 43 percent females

6. Analysis of the data
 Adoption
measurement at 2 levels
 Trialing
 Adoption (continued use)
 Statistical
tools employed
 Descriptive
statistics
 Chi-square tests of independence
 Logistic regression analysis
 ANOVA

7. Results

8. Information sources
[93 percent of farmers (N = 388) were aware of agroforestry]

9. Training in agroforestry

10. Extension approaches
(bars represents standard errors of the means according to
Bonferroni test, LSD = 0.1814)

11. Extension agents
(bars represents standard errors of the means according to
Bonferroni test, LSD = 0.1814)

12. Mean score ratings of extension
approaches and agents by
adopters of improved fallows and
biomass transfers

13. To realize agroforestry benefits
 More
consistent extension effort
 Development
 Training
of unified method
of partners in agroforestry
 Appropriate
programs and policies required