Water quality prospective in Twenty First Century: Status of water quality in major river basins, contemporary strategies and impediments: A review

S Giri - Environmental Pollution, 2021 - Elsevier
Water quality improvement is one of the top priorities in the global agenda endorsed by
United Nation. In this review manuscript, a holistic view of water quality degradation such as …

Factors influencing farmers' adoption of best management practices: A review and synthesis

T Liu, RJF Bruins, MT Heberling - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
Best management practices (BMPs) for reducing agricultural non-point source pollution are
widely available. However, agriculture remains a major global contributor to degradation of …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing adoption of agricultural technologies requiring high initial investment among smallholders

YA Yigezu, A Mugera, T El-Shater, A Aw-Hassan… - … Forecasting and Social …, 2018 - Elsevier
Low and slow adoption of improved agricultural technologies among smallholders often
frustrate technology development and promotion efforts in the developing world. That is …

Does zero tillage improve the livelihoods of smallholder cropping farmers?

T El‐Shater, YA Yigezu, A Mugera… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The biophysical benefits of zero tillage (ZT) are well documented in the literature. However,
the literature on its economic benefits, especially in the context of small and medium‐scale …

Adaptation to climate change in rain-fed farming system in Punjab, Pakistan

K Bakhsh, MA Kamran - International Journal of the Commons, 2019 - JSTOR
Farmers in the rain-fed agriculture in arid regions are highly exposed to the adverse effects
of climate change due to complete reliance on frequency, intensity, and timing of the rainfall …

Adoption of nitrogen‐efficient technologies by US corn farmers

C Weber, L McCann - Journal of Environmental Quality, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenically introduced nitrogen (N) has compromised environmental quality, but it is
an essential element for crop production, particularly corn production. Increasing N use …

Will adoption occur if a practice is win-win for profit and the environment? An application to a rancher's grazing practice choices

Y Che, H Feng, DA Hennessy - Ecological Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
Rotational grazing has the potential to provide both economic and environmental benefits;
however, the set of ranchers that adopts is much smaller than the set that regards rotational …

Effects of observability and complexity on farmers' adoption of environmental practices

L McCann, H Gedikoglu, B Broz, J Lory… - Journal of …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The ability of both regulators and farmers themselves to monitor the impact of environmental
practices may be an issue with nonpoint source pollution. Effects that can be perceived via …

Determinants of yam postharvest management in the Zabzugu District of Northern Ghana

IGK Ansah, BKD Tetteh - Advances in Agriculture, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Postharvest loss reduction has received attention in many policy documents across nations
to ensure global food security, particularly in developing countries. Many researchers have …

Adoption of innovation in agriculture: A critical review of economic and psychological models

JAR Borges, AGJMO Lansink… - … Journal of Innovation …, 2019 - inderscienceonline.com
Two main models have been used to analyse farmers' decisions to adopt an innovation; the
first is based on the concept of utility maximisation (UM) and the second is based on the …