Socio-economic Factors that Influence Households: Participation in Wetland Cultivation: A Binary Logistic Regression of Wetland Cultivators and Noncultivators
Increased droughts in southern Africa have noticed some appreciation of the role that partial
wetland cultivation can play to address household food security. This has also witnessed
some indication of possible relaxation of wetland cultivation restrictive policies in Zimbabwe.
However, the general perceptions of society towards wetland cultivation remain unclear and
critically important for policy crafting before blanket recommendations are made. Using a
Binary Logistic Regression Model seven predictor independent variables were regressed
against a binary dependent variable of wetland cultivation status of households with the
implicit goal of estimating socio-economic factors capable of influencing households`
participation in wetland cultivation. Results revealed that from the seven predictor variables,
six variables had a significant influence, while one variable was not significant. The implied
message centres on careful articulation of such a policy given the fact that, the dominant age
group (young and educated household heads) had a negative attitude towards wetland
cultivation, a crucial factor that may risk its rejection if put under a referendum. Intuitively
results conjecture a bleak future for partial wetland cultivation as a possible land use
because the expected future generation (current young and educated household heads)
currently shares a negative attitude towards partial wetland cultivation