The Diffusion of New Agricultural Technologies: The Case of Crossbred-Cow Technology in Tanzania

By Awudu Abdulai, W. Huffman. 2005

390 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Information Systems

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. M. Qaim
2. A. Alene
3. J. Manda
4. M. Khonje
5. A. Tufa
6. Vangelis Tzouvelekas
7. Phoebe Koundouri
8. Awudu Abdulai

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. M. Qaim
2. Leslie Lipper
3. A. Alene
4. J. Manda
5. M. Khonje
6. Hermanto Siregar
7. Awudu Abdulai
8. S. Schwarze

In Information Systems

1. M. Qaim
2. Vangelis Tzouvelekas
3. Phoebe Koundouri
4. Céline Nauges
5. S. Schwarze
6. Margarita Genius
7. Hermanto Siregar
8. M. Euler

Citations in the corpus

• The Adoption of Genetically Modified Cotton and Poverty Reduction in Pakistan (2010, background): “previous research on determinants of adoption of new varieties (Abdulai and Huffman, 2005; Diagne and Demont, 2007).”
• Adoption of safer irrigation technologies and cropping patterns: Evidence from Southern Ghana (2011, result): “The result indicates that more educated farmers are in a better position to understand and appreciate the advantages of adopting safer irrigation technologies, a finding which is consistent with the notion that education is important in helping farmers in their decisions on adopting new innovations ”
• Does cooperative membership increase and accelerate agricultural technology adoption? Empirical evidence from Zambia (2020, methodology): “However, because of the problems with recall data, we define the time to adoption as the difference between the year of adoption and the year of release of a variety (Abdulai and Huffman, 2005; Nazli and Smale, 2016).”
• Smallholder productivity and weather shocks: Adoption and impact of widely promoted agricultural practices in Tanzania (2017, background): “Although households in rural Tanzania are very likely to be price takers in both output and labor markets (see for instance LO-FTF, 2013; Mduma and Wobst, 2005), asymmetric information between lenders and borrowers and uncertain conditions in agriculture and financial markets lead to imperfections i”
• Oil palm expansion among smallholder farmers in Sumatra, Indonesia (2016, methodology): “This may potentially lead to omitted variable bias (Abdulai and Huffman, 2005).”