Quantitative assessment of improved rice variety adoption: the farmer's perspective

By S. Sall, D. Norman, Allen M. Featherstone. 2000

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Factors Affecting Adoption of Improved Rice Varieties among Rural Farm Households in Central Nepal (2015, methodology): “Therefore, farmers’ perceptions of new varieties are particularly important in determining which variety they will adopt (Sall et al, 2000).”
Socioeconomic and institutional factors influencing adoption of conservation farming by vulnerable households in Zimbabwe (2009, methodology): “There are two parts to a farmer’s decision to implement CF techniques: one is the decision of whether or not to adopt the technology and the second is to determine the level or intensity of technology use (Sall et al., 2000; Brett, 2004).”
Determinants of Market Participation among Small-Scale Pineapple Farmers in Kericho County, Kenya (2014, background): “The positive impact resulting from the fact that older farmers may take their decision more easily than the young farmers, because the older people might have accumulated capital or a long term relationship with their clients or might have preferential access to credit due to their age, availability”
Location and uptake: integrated household and GIS analysis of technology adoption and land use, with application to smallholder dairy farms in Kenya (2002, background): “At the end of the scale, many farm technology uptake studies include no explicit spatial variables at all (Rahm and Huffman, 1984; Polson and Spencer, 1991; Nkonya et al., 1997; Adesina et al., 2000; Sall et al., 2000).”