The concept of technology adoption (along with its companions, diffusion and scaling) is
commonly used to design development interventions, to frame impact evaluations and to …

More than five billion metric tons of agricultural residues are produced annually worldwide.
Despite having multiple uses and significant potential to augment crop and livestock …

Direct training of selected individuals as disseminating farmers (DFs) can help to implement
a farmer to farmer extension approach. This study systematically examines the relationship …

The Anthropocene has brought with it many challenges, the primary of which are climate
change and food security. The growing global population increasingly demands more from a …

Sustainable intensification (SI) is promoted as a rural development paradigm for sub-
Saharan Africa. Achieving SI requires smallholder farmers to have access to information that …

Predictions of the speed and extent of adoption of new agricultural practices and
technologies are needed to inform decisions and plans in agricultural policy, research and …

Research on the determinants of adoption of agricultural innovations (technologies and
practices) has failed to converge towards a consistent explanation for why farmers choose to …

CONTEXT Scholars have argued that empirical studies of adoption in agriculture should
consider adoption as a dynamic process rather than a binary choice, but many empirical …

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the determinants of farmer adoption of
sustainable intensification technologies in maize agri-food systems of the Global South. The …

The challenges of land degradation, climate change and food insecurity have led to the
introduction of conservation agriculture (CA) aimed at enhancing yield and soil quality …