Agroecology and climate change rapid evidence review: Performance of agroecological approaches in low-and middle-income countries

SS Snapp, Y Kebede, EK Wollenberg, KM Dittmer… - 2021 - cgspace.cgiar.org
Agroecology is increasingly seen as being able, or even necessary, to transform food
systems (HLPE 2019). The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and …

Selection and comparative advantage in technology adoption

T Suri - Econometrica, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates an empirical puzzle in technology adoption for developing countries:
the low adoption rates of technologies like hybrid maize that increase average farm profits …

Potential impacts of a pandemic on the US farm labor market

D Charlton, M Castillo - Applied Economic Perspectives and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
An outbreak of COVID‐19 among farmworkers could have significant impacts on the
workers, agricultural producers, and the consumers. Farmers are implementing new labor …

Heterogeneous information exposure and technology adoption: the case of tissue culture bananas in Kenya

NS Kabunga, T Dubois, M Qaim - Agricultural Economics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Classical innovation adoption models implicitly assume homogenous information flow
across farmers, which is often not realistic. As a result, selection bias in adoption parameters …

Determinants of crop-livestock integration in Brazil: Evidence from the household and regional levels

JDB Gil, R Garrett, T Berger - Land use policy, 2016 - Elsevier
Integrated crop-livestock systems (iCL) are advocated as a promising strategy to increase
agricultural production and rehabilitate degraded pastures while mitigating GHG emissions …

Farmers' perceptions of agricultural land use changes in Nepal and their major drivers

B Paudel, Y Zhang, J Yan, R Rai, L Li - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Historical trends show that the total area of agricultural land in Nepal has changed markedly
over time, but few studies have addressed the causative drivers underlying this change …

A spatially explicit representation of conservation agriculture for application in global change studies

R Prestele, AL Hirsch, EL Davin… - Global Change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation agriculture (CA) is widely promoted as a sustainable agricultural management
strategy with the potential to alleviate some of the adverse effects of modern, industrial …

[PDF][PDF] The role of agricultural extension in the transfer and adoption of agricultural technologies

AAT Altalb, T Filipek, P Skowron - Asian Journal of Agriculture and …, 2015 - researchgate.net
This article aims to identify the concept of agricultural extension, explain: the concept of the
agricultural extension as service and as learning process for farmers. This research aims …

Determinants of success and intensity of livestock feed technologies use in Ethiopia: Evidence from a positive deviance perspective

MY Birhanu, A Girma, R Puskur - Technological Forecasting and Social …, 2017 - Elsevier
This study explores factors associated with success and intensity of livestock feed
technologies use among positive deviants in feed technology adoption in Ethiopia. We used …

[HTML][HTML] Crop booms at the forest frontier: Triggers, reinforcing dynamics, and the diffusion of knowledge and norms

V Junquera, A Grêt-Regamey - Global Environmental Change, 2019 - Elsevier
Crop booms in forest frontiers are a major contributor to deforestation and global change.
Because of their non-linearity, intensity, and unpredictability, booms are specific instances of …