Book ChapterDOI
Adoption of agroforestry innovations in the tropics: A review
TLDR
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
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Factors Influencing U.S. Homebuilders' Adoption of Green Homebuilding Products
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a theory-driven diffusion of innovation conceptual model of homebuilders' adoption of high performance building product innovations, and demonstrated an application of the model using a large dataset from the National Association of Homebuilders.
What Makes an Early Adopter? Transforming Landscapes One Farmer at a Time
TL;DR: The Regional Integrated Silvopastoral Eco- systems Management Project (RISEMP) was a Global Environmental Facility-funded pilot attempt to promote better ranching practices along the La Vieja River watershed as mentioned in this paper.
Book ChapterDOI
Accounting for the invisible value of trees on farms through valuation of ecosystem services
TL;DR: In this article, the integration of trees on farms, commonly referred to as agroforestry, has been recognized as a potential strategy to enhance farmers' adaptation to and mitigation of the adverse effects of climate change.
Journal ArticleDOI
Facteurs d'adoption de la lutte étagée ciblée au Nord-Bénin
Abstract: Cet article analyse les facteurs d’adoption d’une technologie alternative de protection du cotonnier, la Lutte etagee ciblee (LEC), ainsi que ceux affectant l’intensite d’adoption de celle-ci au sein des exploitations cotonnieres du Nord-Benin. Identifies a travers le modele en deux etapes de Heckman, les facteurs institutionnels et l’appreciation portee sur la qualite des insecticides LEC affectent positivement l’adoption de la LEC alors que la specialisation en coton freine cette adoption. La fourniture en insecticides LEC seule ne garantit pas la diffusion a grande echelle de la LEC, il faut qu’ils soient livres a bonne date et que les facteurs institutionnels qui participent a l’application correcte de la technologie soient reunis.
Journal Article
Qualitative Methods for Effective Agrarian Surveys: A Research Note on Focus Groups
Tey Yeong-Sheng,E. Li,Johan Bruwer,Amin Mahir Abdullah,Jay Cummins,Alias Radam,Mohd Mansor Ismail,Suryani Darham +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a research note on qualitative data collection processes as they contribute to the effective survey of social phenomena within agricultural settings, since they were found to be useful in the preliminary stages of social research.
References
More filters
Book
Social Choice and Individual Values
TL;DR: Saari as mentioned in this paper introduced Arrow's Theorem and founded the field of social choice theory in economics and political science, and introduced a new foreword by Nobel laureate Eric Maskin, introducing Arrow's seminal book to a new generation of students and researchers.
Journal ArticleDOI
Social Choice and Individual Values.
Leo A. Goodman,Kenneth J. Arrow +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a destination search and find the appropriate manuals for their products, providing you with many Social Choice And Individual Values. You can find the manual you are interested in in printed form or even consider it online.
Book
The conditions of agricultural growth
TL;DR: In this paper, Boserup argues that changes and improvements occur from within agricultural communities, and that improvements are governed not simply by external interference, but by those communities themselves using extensive analyses of the costs and productivity of the main systems of traditional agriculture.
Adoption of agricultural innovation in developing countries : a survey (revised)
TL;DR: This article reviewed various studies which have provided a description of and possible explanation to patterns of innovation adoption in the agricultural sector and highlighted the diversity in observed patterns among various farmers' classes as well as differences in results from different studies in different socioeconomic environments.