discussion paper uses panel household survey data collected in two rounds in Zambia to analyse some agro-ecological and socio …-economic impacts of the outgrower programme of one of the largest agricultural investments in Zambia: Amatheon Agri Zambia (AAZ …

. This paper identified factors motivating adoption and abandonment of precision soils sampling in cotton. Younger producers … who farmed more cotton area, owned more of their cropland, planted more non-cotton area, or used a computer were more … likely to adopt precision soil sampling. Those with more cotton area or who owned livestock were more likely to abandon …