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Improving Benefits from Marginal Lands: Contribution of Homegardens to Household Income Generation

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Guuroh, Reginald Tang Uibrig, Holm Acheampong, Emmanuel
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Introduction Homegardens (HGs) are common in most tropical countries and they play a vital role in supporting households (HHs) in many diverse ways, including the provision of food, fuelwood, building materials, fodder for livestock, and cash income. They are regarded as a source of income diversification and also play a crucial cultural and social role in rural communities. Fernandes and Nair (1986: 279) define homegardens as „land use practices involving deliberate management of multipurpose trees and shrubs in intimate association with annual and perennial agricultural crops and invariably, livestock, within the compounds of individual houses, the whole crop-tree-animal unit being managed by the family labour‟. Although HGs are primarily used for subsistence purposes by HHs, they are increasingly being used to generate cash income (Mendez et al., 2001). It is a common misconception that HGs are exclusively subsistenceoriented, whereas in fact they provide HHs with cash crops as well as food crops (Hoogerbrugge and Fresco, 1993). The quantity of homegarden (HG) production that actually gets sold is highly variable, differing from one household (HH) to another. In a study of HGs in Indonesia, Hoogerbrugge and Fresco (1993) reported that between 9% and 51% of production is sold. Okigbo (1990, cited in FAO, 2004) also reported that the sale of livestock and tree crops produced in HGs in southeastern Nigeria accounted for over 60% of family cash income. Despite the critical role that HGs play in both food security and income generation, very little research has been conducted on them in Burkina Faso. This study was therefore to determine the contribution of HGs to annual incomes of HHs.
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