A wealth of evidence exists about the adoption of new practices and technologies in agriculture but there does not … for estimates of likely extent of adoption and the likely timeframes for project impacts. This paper reports on the … reasoning underpinning the development of ADOPT (Adoption and Diffusion Outcome Prediction Tool). The tool has been designed to …

This paper establishes the linkage of short duration pigeonpea adoption to farmers' perceptions on the issue of …/varietal adoption and management practices are consciously taken to maintain productivity levels in the context of existing and desired …

The pattern of adoption and disadoption of a new research outcome has considerable impact on the total benefits to the … industry from such research. The aims in this paper are to examine the pattern of adoption of individual rice varieties … developed in NSW, and to develop an estimate of the expected adoption curve for different types of rice varieties. The analysis …

In this paper the conceptual framework of individual farmers' adoption decisions of new agricultural technologies is … used to identify factors that influence adoption modified fanya juu terraces in semi-arid eastern Kenya. The adoption … farmers' adoption behaviour. To test intensity of adoption a Torbit model was specified and estimated. Results of logit …

sizes and low crop productivity. Work is also planned to encourage the process of adoption of these technologies, and here … characteristics, ‘relative advantage’ and ‘trialability’, for successful adoption. Minimum or target rates of return on investment in … encourage successful adoption of the technology. A number of economic assessments of new crop methodologies in Cambodian upland …

explicit consideration of knowledge of adoption processes. It is known from the literature that farmers’ goals and risk … perceptions in particular influence adoption decisions. This paper utilises the data from an earlier grazier survey to explore to … what extent grazier motivations and risk perceptions influence the adoption of BMPs. The results demonstrate clear …