Mulungu, Kelvin; Tembo, Gelson - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 3, pp. 2858-2870
In Zambia, every year some parts of the maize fields are abandoned post-planting. Reasons for this are not clearly known. In this paper, we examine the influence of soil and climatic factors on crop abandonment using a six-year (2007–2012) panel data by modeling the planted-to-harvested ratio...