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Land Tenure and the Adoption of Conservation Practices

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In this paper, the influence of land tenure on the adoption of conservation practices was analyzed by distinguishing renters according to lease type and by distinguishing practices according to the timing of costs and returns.
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We use a logit adoption model with data on 941 U.S. corn producers from the 1996 Agricultural Resource Management Study to analyze the influence of land tenure on the adoption of conservation practices. We extend previous analyses by distinguishing renters according to lease type and by distinguishing practices according to the timing of costs and returns. We find that cash-renters are less likely than owner-operators to use conservation tillage, but share-renters are not. Both cash-renters and share-renters are less likely than owner-operators to adopt practices that provide benefits only over the longer term (grassed waterways, stripcropping, and contour farming).

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Farmers’ adoption of conservation agriculture: A review and synthesis of recent research

TL;DR: This article reviewed and synthesized this past research in order to identify those independent variables that regularly explain adoption, and thereby facilitate policy prescriptions to augment adoption around the world, concluding that efforts to promote conservation agriculture will have to be tailored to reflect the particular conditions of individual locales.
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Determinants of agricultural best management practice adoption: Evidence from the literature

TL;DR: This article reviewed 25 years of literature focused on the adoption of agricultural best management practices (BMPs) in the United States to examine general trends in the categories of capacity, awareness, attitudes and farm characteristics.
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Reducing the Risks of Herbicide Resistance: Best Management Practices and Recommendations

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a multifaceted approach to mitigate the evolution of herbicide resistance by reducing selection through diversification of weed control techniques, minimizing the spread of resistance genes and genotypes via pollen or propagule dispersal, and eliminating additions of weed seed to the soil seedbank.
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Why farmers adopt best management practice in the United States: A meta-analysis of the adoption literature

TL;DR: It is shown that various approaches to data collection affect the results and comparability of adoption studies, and environmental awareness and farmer attitudes have been inconsistently used and measured across the literature.
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Conservation Agriculture and Soil Carbon Sequestration: Between Myth and Farmer Reality

TL;DR: In this paper, the potential impact of conservation agriculture on carbon and nitrogen cycling in agriculture has been reviewed by synthesizing the knowledge of carbon cycling and summarizing the influence of tillage, residue management and crop rotation on soil organic carbon stocks.
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Regression Models for Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables

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Regression Models for Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables

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Incentives and risk-sharing in sharecropping

TL;DR: In this article, the authors formulate a simple general equilibrium model of a competitive agricultural economy, based on the risk sharing and incentive properties of alternative distribution systems, which is of interest not only for extending our understanding of these simple economies but also in gaining some insight into the far more complex phenomena of shareholding in modern corporations.
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The adoption of agricultural innovations: A review

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the theoretical and empirical literature on the adoption of agricultural innovations during the last decade and the impact of policy interventions promoting technology adoption and found that agroclimatic environment is the most significant determinant of locational differences in adoption rates.
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The Adoption of Reduced Tillage: The Role of Human Capital and Other Variables

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model of adoption behavior and explain differences econometrically in farmers' decisions to adopt reduced-tillage practices and in the efficiency of farmers' adoption decisions.
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