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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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Household-level determinants of adoption of improved natural resources management practices among smallholder farmers in western Kenya
TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that the size of the farm owned by a household, the value of its livestock, off-farm income, family labor supply, and the educational attainment and gender of the household head all had a significant positive effect on the likelihood of adoption.
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The role of knowledge, attitudes and perceptions in the uptake of agricultural and agroforestry innovations among smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an analytical framework that combines both extrinsic and intrinsic factors in farmers' decisions to adopt new agricultural technologies and apply the framework to agroforestry adoption as a case study.
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Factors influencing the adoption of precision agricultural technologies: a review for policy implications
TL;DR: In this article, a review based on studies investigating the limited adoption of precision agricultural technologies (PATs) in experienced countries, extrapolating their findings to explain why farmers have or have not adopted PATs.
Strengthening and Implementing the Global Response
Heleen de Coninck,Aromar Revi,Mustafa H.M. Babiker,Paolo Bertoldi,Marcos Silveira Buckeridge,A. Cartwright,W. Dong,James D. Ford,Sabine Fuss,Jean Charles Hourcade,Debora Ley,Reinhard Mechler,Peter Newman,A. Revokatova,Seth Schultz,Linda Steg,T. Sugiyama +16 more
TL;DR: The feasibility of mitigation and adaptation options, and the enabling conditions for strengthening and implementing the systemic changes, are assessed in this article, where the authors consider the global response to warming of 1.5oC comprises transitions in land and ecosystem, energy, urban and infrastructure, and industrial systems.
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Swidden Transformations and Rural Livelihoods in Southeast Asia
Rob Cramb,Carol J. Pierce Colfer,Wolfram Dressler,Pinkaew Laungaramsri,Quang Trang Le,Elok Mulyoutami,Nancy Lee Peluso,Reed L. Wadley +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the major interactions between the transformation of swidden farming and the pursuit of rural livelihoods in the uplands of Southeast Asia are explored, drawing on selected literature, workshop reflections, and six case studies.
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