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study looks at the broadband Internet setting in Oklahoma over a 3-year period, examining the diffusion of both …
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This paper examines the effects of gender on the adoption of new technologies of peanut production in Eastern Uganda …
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improve soil structure and water conservation. However, adoption of these technologies has been resisted by smallholder … farmers and identifying causes of the low adoption rates to facilitate intervention strategies remains a challenge to … important in determining farmers’ adoption of zero-tillage, crop rotation and contour ridging technologies. Empirical results …
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water management practices are widely promoted, farmers’ adoption behavior is not well understood in the climate change … context. This study helps fill this gap by assessing how climate risk affects such adoption. We construct moment-based climate … records, we find climate risk plays a role in the adoption of advanced irrigation technologies and BMPs, and suggest the …
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With the production and cropping efficiency gains from adoption of Genetically Modified (GM) corn, the number of acres … planted has increased steadily over the past decade. Also, the adoption of GM crops in general has an impact on the labor … a two-stage left-censored simultaneous Tobit model to estimate the impact of adoption of GM corn on the off-farm labor …
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The production of many crops depends on biotic pollination. As pollinator populations decline, assessments of the potential consequential loss of economic value are critical. We estimate the economic value of pollination services ($608 million), crop vulnerability ratio (21 percent), and...
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problem in various ways, but likely options include adoption of mechanical harvesting. In the current paper we study the …
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