Information Transmission in Irrigation Technology Adoption and Diffusion: Social Learning, Extension Services, and Spatial Effects
By Margarita Genius, Phoebe Koundouri, Céline Nauges, Vangelis Tzouvelekas. 2014
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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Management Science and Operations Research
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Citations in the corpus
- Does it matter who advises farmers? Pest management choices with public and private extension (2020, background): “…to the adverse effects on the environment, possible health risks for consumers, farmers and bystanders and the build-up of pesticide-resistance (Grovermann et al., 2013, Sexton et al., 2007, Tilman et al., 2011) and to recommend strategies that can reduce pesticide applications, whereas…”
- Seed degeneration in potato: the need for an integrated seed health strategy to mitigate the problem in developing countries (2016, background): “Studies on information diffusion and adoption of agricultural innovations have indicated the critical and interdependent roles played by extension services and farmer social networks for establishing effective communication channels (Garrett, 2012; Genius et al., 2014).”
- Factors Determining Adoption of New Agricultural Technology by Smallholder Farmers in Developing Countries (2015, background): “Extension agents usually target specific farmers who are recognized as peers (farmers with whom a particular farmer interacts) exerting a direct or indirect influence on the whole population of farmers in their respective areas (Genius et al., 2010).”
- Understanding the role of social capital in adoption decisions: An application to irrigation technology (2017, neutral): “…also postulate that “even without the intervention of extension agents, farmers learn from their social interactions with other farmers” (see also Genius et al., 2013) It has also been shown that farmers' membership in an agricultural group has a positive impact on the adoption decision…”