Jan 21, 2025
The role of labor in the adoption of land restoration activities (LRA) that reduce soil degradation in smallholder agricultural systems has received inadequate attention. We examine the gender-labor dimensions of the adoption of LRAs by smallholder agricultural households in rural Ethiopia, in a context where more than 90 percent of agricultural households have some form of private land tenure security, which is regarded to be an important enabling factor for restoring private agricultural land.