Development, Diffusion and Impact of Conservation Farming in Zambia

The study reported in this paper measures differences in profitability betweenconservation farming (CF) practices and conventional agriculture by comparing the value ofdifferential output with the differential input costs. The main objective is to address and fillseveral important knowledge gaps by investigating three key features of conservationfarming in Zambia: 1) the process by which CF originated and spread; 2) the scale of CF adoption across household groups and regions; and 3) the impact of CF on crop output, input use, cost of production and farm income.