The determinants of individual behaviors that provide shared environmental benefits are a
longstanding theme in social science research. Alternative behavioral models yield …

The ability to identify, target, and treat critical pollution source areas on a landscape is an
ongoing challenge for water quality programs that seek to address nonpoint source (NPS) …

Firms today are striving to adopt innovations to ensure their survival, value creation and
success. Innovation is increasingly seen as an outcome of a collaborative process, involving …

Cover crops are known to promote many aspects of soil and water quality, yet estimates find
that in 2012 only 2.3% of the total agricultural lands in the Midwestern USA were using cover …

The rate and extent of adoption of conservation practices by farmers is influenced, in
principle, by characteristics of the practices and those of the farmers. Governments use …

Society's expectations of farmers in relation to their environmental performance are ever
increasing, in general terms and in response to regional challenges. One tool for achieving …

We investigate empirically the role of moral and social concerns in farmers' decision to adopt
integrated crop protection (IP) and organic farming (OF). A survey questionnaire has been …

Much of agricultural and agri‐environmental policy is concerned with influencing the
behavior of farmers in adopting new practices. An ability to understand and predict adoption …

All farmers have their own version of what it means to be a good farmer. For many US
farmers a large portion of their identity is defined by the high input, high output production …

This paper provides a selective overview of the linkages and complementary topics in
behavioral economics and agricultural adoption literatures. The goal of the paper is to …