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Adoption of agroforestry innovations in the tropics: A review
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In this article, the authors reviewed the theoretical and empirical literature that has developed during the past decade analyzing agroforestry adoption from a variety of perspectives and identified needed future research.Abstract:
The period since the early 1990s has witnessed an explosion of research on the adoption of agroforestry innovations in the tropics. Much of this work was motivated by a perceived gap between advances in agroforestry science and the success of agroforestry-based development programs and projects. Achieving the full promise of agroforestry requires a fundamental understanding of how and why farmers make long-term land-use decisions and applying this knowledge to the design, development, and ‘marketing’ of agroforestry innovations. This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature that has developed during the past decade analyzing agroforestry adoption from a variety of perspectives and identifies needed future research. Much progress has been made, especially in using binary choice regression models to assess influences of farm and household characteristics on adoption and in developing ex-ante participatory, on-farm research methods for analyzing the potential adoptability of agroforestry innovations. Additional research-needs that have been identified include developing a better understanding of the role of risk and uncertainty, insights into how and why farmers adapt and modify adopted systems, factors influencing the intensity of adoption, village-level and spatial analyses of adoption, the impacts of disease such as AIDS and malaria on adoption, and the temporal path of adoption.read more
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Poor Household Participation in Payments for Environmental Services in Nicaragua and Colombia
Ana R. Rios,Stefano Pagiola +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the extent to which poor households are able to participate in payments for Environmental Services (PES) scheme using data from a PES scheme implemented at two sites in Latin America.
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Exploring the synergy between Community Supported Agriculture and agroforestry: Institutional innovation from smallholders in a brazilian rural settlement
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the potentialities of the CSA marketing arrangement for smallholders outside the North American and European contexts, and within the agroforestry farming environment.
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Ecology versus economics in tropical multistrata agroforests
Emmanuel Torquebiau,Eric Penot +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the development of ecological features of homegardens can be fostered by an "innovative" economic analysis, which integrates risk buffering, outputs of mixtures of plants with different cycles, and allow to take into account farming strategies with long-term objectives as well as the patrimonial (assets inheritance) component of farmers' strategies.
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Adoption of agricultural innovation in developing countries : a survey (revised)
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