Adoption of organic farming: Are there differences between early and late adoption?
By D. Läpple, T. V. Rensburg. 2011
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Based on the fact that not all farmers adopt a technology at the same time, it is argued in this paper that the distinction between groups is important because early, medium and late adopters respond differently to economic and non-economic factors when they consider whether to take up organic farming or not. The individual effects on adoption between the groups are identified by the use of multinomial logit analysis. The results provide evidence that there are significant differences in the characteristics between the adopter groups. The findings also reveal that the factors that affect adoption play a different role for early, medium and late adopters, particularly with regard to farming intensity, age, information gathering as well as attitudes of the farmer. More specifically, early adopters were the youngest to adopt organic farming and their decisions were found to be less profit related compared to other groups. Late adoption is constrained by risk considerations, while environmental attitudes and social learning were identified to be important determinants for all adopter groups. Overall, the findings strongly suggest, that for policy measures to be effective, the current state of diffusion has to be taken into account.
Subfields: Business and International Management, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Factors Influencing Adoption of Sustainable Farming Practices in Europe: A Systemic Review of Empirical Literature (2020, background): “Five studies additionally reported the influence of an advisory service on farmers, with two showing the negative effect [60,61], one identifying the positive relationship [64] and the rest stating a lack of significant evidence of any relationship [38,39].”
- Organic farmers or conventional farmers: Where's the money? (2012, result): “The result here is in accordance with the argument put forth by Padel and Lampkin (1994) and recent findings by Naoufel (2011) and Läpple and Rensburg (2011) that non-economic factors such as land stewardship and concerns for environmental conditions of the farmland can be important motivations for ”