THE IMPACT OF INTERVENTIONS TO PROMOTE CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: DOES STRONGER TENURE SECURITY INCREASE FARMER INVESTMENT IN SUSTAINABLE AGROFORESTRY?

Heather Huntington et all

This paper draws on panel data collected from 2413 households and 6234 fields in Zambia to
investigate whether stronger property rights related to land might influence smallholder farmer likelihood to adopt agroforestry. The data was collected in the context of a randomized control
trial of the Tenure and Global Climate Change (TGCC) program in Zambia. TGCC was
developed by USAID to explore the relationship between secure resource tenure and agroforestry
extension. The evaluation uses a four-arm randomized design to determine the impact of
agroforestry extension and to investigate whether stronger tenure security leads to marginal
increases in farmer investment in sustainable agroforestry beyond improvements gained through
agroforestry extension alone. Through the first cross-cutting RCT of a customary certification
and agroforestry program, this study sheds light on the relationship between perceived land tenure security and likelihood of agroforestry adoption in a customary land context in sub-Saharan Africa.

Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018

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