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    Adoption ofImproved Natural Resource Management Technologies in North Western Ethiopia: A Case Study in Dangila Woreda of Amhara Region.
    (Addis Ababa University, 2006-12) Negash, Dagnew; Negatu, Workneh(PhD)
    The major objective of this research is to examine the state of adoption of improved NRM technologies particularly, the adoption condition of two improved NRM technologies which are economically and ecologically important in the study area ( bund and woodlot tree planting) and to identify some of the basic socio-economic and institutional factors affecting it. The source of data was based mainly on the survey of 160 randomly selected sample HHHs of the five PAs of the woreda under investigation. However, data of 148 sample households was analyzed since the data of 12 sample households was deficient with the necessary information . The study has employed both descriptive and qualitative data analysis techniques. As it is evidenced from the survey result the majority of the farmers of the study area implemented(adopted ) NRM technologies. However, the mode of implementation was both forceful as well as on voluntary basis. Hence ,even the though the adoption incidence seems encouraging, the adoption intensity and its final out come is minimum and it is not as expected in the study area .Thus ,the research result have shown us that the adoption condition of fanners to the improved NRM technologies ,specifically the bund and woodlot tree planting technologies is influenced by a range of socio-economic and institutional factors. Therefore, the factors like land holding size, livestock size, agricultural extension service delivery/frequency of extension contacts by conservation agents, land tenure security, participation of fanners at planning stage of NRM activities and attitude of the beneficiaries towards the bund technology were found to be significantly associated with the adoption decision of bund technology. On the other hand, age of the household heads, land holding size, agricultural extension service delivery, land tenure security, physical access of market , participation of beneficiaries at planning stage of NRM works and the attitude of farmers towards the woodlot tree planting technology have been found significantly associated to the adoption decision of the farmers to wood lot tree planting. In conclusion, blanket approach to natural resource management intervention efforts could make the measures inappropriate to local conditions and could be even unacceptable by the land user. Hence local specific, household focused and technology based approaches have to be followed in order to able to tackle the socio-economic and institutional factors that are involved in adoption decision ofNRM technologies by the farmers of the study area.