Key factors influencing farmers' adoption of sustainable innovations: a systematic literature review and research agenda

G Rizzo, G Migliore, G Schifani, R Vecchio - Organic Agriculture, 2024 - Springer
Despite the benefits of sustainable innovations in the agricultural sector being widely
recognized, their adoption rate remains below the level designated by the 2030 Sustainable …

Farmers' Transition to Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Systematic Review of the Decision-Making Factors Affecting Adoption

M Gemtou, K Kakkavou, E Anastasiou, S Fountas… - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Agriculture is currently facing major challenges related to ensuring the food security of a
rising population and climate change with extreme weather patterns. At the same time …

[HTML][HTML] An integrated weed management framework: a pan-European perspective

M Riemens, M Sønderskov, AC Moonen… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Initiatives to reduce the reliance of agriculture on pesticides, including the European Union
(EU) Directive 2009/128/EC on the sustainable use of pesticides (SUD), have yet to lead to …

Toxic temperatures: Bee behaviours exhibit divergent pesticide toxicity relationships with warming

D Kenna, P Graystock, RJ Gill - Global Change Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change and agricultural intensification are exposing insect pollinators to
temperature extremes and increasing pesticide usage. Yet, we lack good quantification of …

Foresight from the hometown of green tea in China: Tea farmers' adoption of pro-green control technology for tea plant pests

S Lou, B Zhang, D Zhang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
The use of pesticides can lead to respiratory, reproductive, genetic, and nervous system
diseases, which are major potential threats to human health. The abuse of pesticides by …

Are vulnerable farmers more easily influenced? Heterogeneous effects of Internet use on the adoption of integrated pest management

LI Kai, JIN Yu, JH Zhou - Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2023 - Elsevier
The Internet is believed to bring more technological dividends to vulnerable farmers during
the green agriculture transformation. However, this is different from the theory of skill-biased …

How contradictory EU policies led to the development of a pest: the story of oilseed rape and the cabbage stem flea beetle

PA Ortega‐Ramos, SM Cook, AL Mauchline - GCB Bioenergy, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Oilseed rape can be used to produce biodiesel which can substitute non‐renewable fuels
for transport. In the early 2000s, the EU introduced a series of policies and market‐based …

Strategies and techniques to mitigate the negative impacts of pesticide exposure to honey bees

G Zhang, RL Olsson, BK Hopkins - Environmental Pollution, 2023 - Elsevier
In order to support food, fiber, and fuel production around the world, billions of kilograms of
pesticides are applied to crop fields every year to suppress pests, plant diseases and …

IPM adoption and impacts in the United States

DE Lane, TJ Walker… - Journal of Integrated Pest …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Increased Integrated Pest Management (IPM) adoption hinges not only on the
future of innovative research, but also on the willingness of growers to adopt new IPM …

Uniting RNAi technology and conservation biocontrol to promote global food security and agrobiodiversity

J Willow, SM Cook, E Veromann… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Habitat loss and fragmentation, and the effects of pesticides, contribute to biodiversity losses
and unsustainable food production. Given the United Nation's (UN's) declaration of this …