Adoption of agroforestry innovations in the tropics: A review
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...A large body of the literature on the variables influencing the adoption of agroforestry practices exists, with a real explosion of research since the early 1990s (Mercer 2004)....
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...The diffusion of innovations theory has guided many studies that try to understand the uptake of new agricultural technologies and it has been applied in the development of farmer decision-making models in the tropics (Mercer 2004, Edwards-Jones 2006, Pannell et al. 2006, Reed 2007)....
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...Theoretical and empirical literatures have shown that risk and uncertainty play an important role in the adoption of new agricultural technologies (Marra et al. 2003, Mercer 2004)....
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...Some of these findings have been reviewed, e.g. Pattanayak et al. (2003) and Mercer (2004) on agroforestry innovations; Fleming and Vanclay (2010) on climate change adoptive measures, and Knowler and Bradshaw (2007) on conservation practices....
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...…the time and knowledge required for management, low intermediate benefits to offset revenue lags, and inadequate market access (Pattanayak et al., 2003; Mercer, 2004; Sendzimir et al., 2011; Valdivia et al., 2012; Coe et al., 2014; Meijer et al., 2015; Coulibaly et al., 2017; Jacobi et al., 2017)....
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...Mercer (2004) reviews evidence of such adoption pathways for a variety of agroforestry practices and settings....
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...Arrow (1963) referred to decision tree models as ‘choice function(s) not built up from orderings....
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...Arrow (1963) referred to decision tree models as ‘choice function(s) not built up from orderings.’...
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