Agricultural Sustainability and Technology Adoption: Issues and Policies for Developing Countries

By David R. Lee. 2005

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. M. Kassie
2. H. Teklewold
3. M. Qaim
4. Salvatore Di Falco
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6. B. Shiferaw
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7. S. Kouser
8. Johnny Mugisha

Citations in the corpus

• The Role of Farming Experience on the Adoption of Agricultural Technologies: Evidence from Smallholder Farmers in Uganda (2014, methodology): “The data were collected from rural farm households in Uganda by Agricultural Sector Programme Support (ASPS) supported by Danida, which has been supporting smallholder farmers through Farmers’ Organisations (FO) in Uganda since 1994. By 2001, FO was operating in 41 districts of Uganda. FO’s technica”
• Effect of climate-smart agricultural practices on household food security in smallholder production systems: micro-level evidence from Kenya (2018, unknown): “SSA continues to significantly face declining fallow periods, with inadequate investment in sustainable intensification and veering off from diversification in favour of mono-cropping in otherwise traditionally complex farming systems [6].”
• Spatial patterns of organic agriculture adoption: Evidence from Honduras (2014, background): “Or, alternatively, whether the decision is to a large extent influenced by processes that take place at the level of communities and social networks, where members engage in social learning shaping collective expectations and norms and where coordination problems may arise (Lee, 2005; Manski, 2000).”
• Adoption of multiple sustainable agricultural practices in rural Ethiopia (2013, methodology): “The adoption and diffusion of SAPs have become an important issue in the developmentpolicy agenda for sub-Saharan Africa (Scoones and Toulmin, 1993; Lee, 2005; Ajayi, 2007), especially as a way to tackle these impediments.”
• Market inefficiencies and the adoption of agricultural technologies in developing countries 1 (2013, background): “However, these approaches are often complex, demand labor and knowledge to implement correctly, and may be more sensitive to small ecological variations across plots (Lee 2005; World Bank 2008).”
• Adoption and Impacts of Sustainable Agricultural Practices on Maize Yields and Incomes: Evidence from Rural Zambia (2016, background): “Adoption of improved crop varieties is the other SAP considered in this study (Lee, 2005).”
• Adoption and adaptation of natural resource management innovations in smallholder agriculture: reflections on key lessons and best practices (2009, background): “Accordingly, some studies find a positive relation between increase in commodity price and adoption of conservation technologies (e.g., Shiferaw and Holden 2000; Lee 2005).”
• Does Adoption Of Multiple Climate-Smart Practices Improve Farmers’ Climate Resilience? Empirical Evidence From The Nile Basin Of Ethiopia (2017, methodology): “The specification of our empirical model is based on a review of theoretical work and previous similar empirical adoption and impact studies on integrated natural resource management and sustainable land management (D’Souza et al. 1993; Neill and Lee 2001; Arellanes and Lee 2003; Gebremedhin and Sco”
• Tradeoffs and Complementarities in the Adoption of Improved Seeds, Fertilizer, and Natural Resource Management Technologies in Kenya (2016, background): “NRM technologies are often more labor-intensive, so that their adoption depends on family labor availability (Lee, 2005; Wollni et al., 2010; Noltze et al., 2012).”
• Conservation agriculture, organic marketing, and collective action in the Honduran hillsides (2010, background): “CA relies on soil conservation practices to maintain and improve soil functions, using mostly on-farm inputs (including labor), and keeping purchased inputs to a minimum (Lee, 2005).”
• Cropping system diversification, conservation tillage and modern seed adoption in Ethiopia: Impacts on household income, agrochemical use and demand for labor (2013, background): “…SSA include declining fallow periods, inadequate investment in sustainable intensification, and a strong trajectory away from diversification in favor of mono-cropping in otherwise traditionally complex farming systems (Jhamtani, 2011; Lee, 2005; Pretty, 1999; Snapp et al., 2010; Woodfine, 2009).”
• Understanding Producers’ Motives for Adopting Sustainable Practices: The Role of Expected Rewards, Risk Perception, and Risk Tolerance (2016, background): “given concerns of the public about the impact of current production and commercialisation practices on the environment (waste, land usage, water resources and energy use), animal welfare, food safety and social dimensions like fair trade, labour rights and community development (Lee, 2005).”
• Early adoption of conservation agriculture practices: Understanding partial compliance in programs with multiple adoption decisions (2018, background): “improved management practices such as CA (Lee, 2005).”
• Understanding the Process of Agricultural Technology Adoption: Mineral Fertilizer in Eastern DR Congo (2014, unknown): “For decades researchers have tried to explain agricultural technology adoption (Lee, 2005; Feder, Just, & Zilberman, 1985; Doss, 2006).”