Adoption of Agricultural Production Practices: Lessons Learned from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Area Studies Project

By M. Caswell, K. Fuglie, C. Ingram, S. Jans, Catherine Kascak. 2001

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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Analysis of farm performance in Europe under different climatic and management conditions to improve understanding of adaptive capacity (2007, background): “Characteristics like farm size, area sown with a specific crop, access to technology, education, tenancy status, attitude towards risk and contact with extension agents are the main factors that affect technology adoption (Caswell et al. 2001; Sheikh et al. 2003).”
Adoption of agricultural conservation practices in the United States: Evidence from 35 years of quantitative literature (2019, background): “…et al. 2000); when farm operators own the land they manage, studies have observed an increase in the level of adoption of a number of practices including nutrient management (Bosch et al. 1995; Khanna 2001), pest management (Caswell et al. 2001), and soil management practices (Lichtenberg 2004).”
Cost-effective design of agri-environmental payment programs: U.S. experience in theory and practice (2008, background): “…experience, primary occupation (farm or non-farm), and other socioeconomic characteristics – as well as land characteristics – can be important in the adoption of various conservation practices (e.g., Caswell et al., 2001; Cooper and Keim, 1996; Soule et al., 2000; Khanna, 2001; Lichtenberg, 2004).”
Profiles of US farm households adopting conservation-compatible practices (2007, background): “As a result, farming remains a major source of some pollutants (Ribaudo, 2000; Claassen et al., 2001).”
Smallholder farmers' motivations for using Conservation Agriculture and the roles of yield, labour and soil fertility in decision making (2016, background): “Recent economic theory contends that the adopter makes a choice based on maximization of expected utility subject to prices, policies, personal characteristics and natural resource assets (Caswell et al., 2001).”
Determinants of agricultural best management practice adoption: Evidence from the literature (2008, background): “The impacts of farming experience, however, may be mediated somewhat as farmers grow older (see, e.g., Belknap and Saupe 1988; Caswell et al. 2001).”
Factors influencing adoption of conservation tillage in Australian cropping regions (2008, background): “This finding is reinforced by the work of Caswell et al. (2001) who observed that high average monthly rainfall significantly †The Odds ratio effects show the proportional effect of a one unit change in the level of a variable (or the presence/absence of dummy variables) on the adoption odds ratio.”
Factors influencing the conversion to organic farming in Norway (2008, background): “A discrete choice of technology is made that leads to an altered level of inputs and profit (Caswell et al., 2001).”