Socioeconomic and ecological factors driving agriculture land use in community-forest landscapes in the middle hills of Nepal

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dc.coverageAsia
dc.coverageNepal
dc.creatorBista, R.
dc.date2023-04-27T13:57:56Z
dc.date2023-04-27T13:57:56Z
dc.date2022
dc.date2023-02-23T04:48:59.0000000Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T23:36:50Z
dc.descriptionCropland abandonment has been a global land management issue for several decades. Studying the factors contributing the cropland abandonment enable us to understand the dilemma facing agriculture land management and crucial for agricultural and natural resource policy development and implementation. Previous studies conducted to understand the cropland abandonment mostly overlooked multiple socioeconomic and biophysical factors, together with natural factors. We used a multi-level logistic regression model and quantitative analysis to investigate status and farmers' perceptions of cropland abandonment and analyzed factors contributing to it. We surveyed 415 households and collected 1264 land parcel profiles from 15 community forest user groups. Our results show an increasing trend of cropland abandonment due to multiple socioeconomic, ecological, and biophysical factors. The likelihood of cropland abandonment increased with household characteristics such as having more migrants, female-headed, non-agriculture occupation of household head and, having a larger amount of agriculture landholding. The study also showed that land parcels far from households, close to the forest edge, with shading effects, higher in slope, were more likely to be abandoned. This paper also identifies the effects of policy-relevant variables on choices to agriculture practices in the rural community of Nepal. ID: 3478783
dc.format24 p.
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dc.identifierhttps://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/cc1758en
dc.identifierhttp://www.fao.org/3/cc1758en/cc1758en.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/286467
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherFAO ;
dc.rightsNon-FAO
dc.rightsCC BY NC SA 3.0 IGO
dc.titleSocioeconomic and ecological factors driving agriculture land use in community-forest landscapes in the middle hills of Nepal
dc.titleXV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
dc.typeArticle

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