I analyse the role of geographical, cognitive, and social proximity in the decision to adopt organic farming in Sweden, using longitudinal data, including an experimental approach, and making use of the variation over time of farms’ exposure to early adopters in the neighbourhood. I find that...

Blockchain adoption in agriculture is facing challenges. The aim of this study is to examine the factors that influence Blockchain adoption in the agricultural supply chain. Several theories including the technology acceptance model (TAM), the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), and the...

The adoption of agricultural technologies is a necessary condition for the achievement of agricultural productivity increase and poverty eradication among the farming households in Nigeria. The role of households’ Wealth status in agricultural technologies adoption in Nigeria has not been well...

An issue of importance in South Asia is the impacts of technological change on a specific type of occupation: non-farm activities. This paper particularly looks at the effects of high yielding variety (HYV) adoption on time allocation and labor force participation of men and women in non-farm...

The Brazilian agricultural sector has been transformed from a traditional system of production with low use of modern technologies to a world agricultural leader. That transformation occurred as the country moved away from import-substitution policies — which nurtured domestic industrial...

This paper investigates the differences in technical efficiency and productivity change, and the technology gaps, between French and Hungarian farms in the dairy and cereal, oilseed and protein crops (COP) sectors during the period 2001-2007. The analyses were performed with national Farm...

This article examines the driving forces behind farmers’ decisions to adopt agricultural technologies and the causal impact of adoption on farmers’ integration into output market using data obtained from a random cross-section sample of 700 farmers in Ethiopia. We estimate a Double-Hurdle...

Chapter 1. The Rice Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa: Issues and opportunities -- Chapter 2. The Role of Extension in the Green Revolution -- Chapter 3. The Case of Cote d’Ivoire: Learning from Experts of Rice Farming Management and Peer Farmers about Rice Production -- Chapter 4. The...