Adoption of agricultural technology in the developing world: A meta-analysis of the empirical literature

Ruzzante, Sacha; Labarta, Ricardo; Bilton, Amy M.

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105599

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“…Although research organisations, governments, and development practitioners promote agricultural technologies, their adoption remains low. A meta-regression analysis of the adoption of agricultural technologies showed that, on average, education, family size, access to credit, land tenure and size, extension, and membership to farmer organizations have positive influence on the adoption of agricultural technologies 67 . Agricultural technology adoption theory combines decision theory and diffusion of innovations theory to understand the factors that influence farmers to adopt new technologies, leading to three paradigms: the perceptions, innovation-diffusion and the economic paradigms 67 .…”

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Behavioral intentions of rural farmers to recycle human excreta in agriculture

Gwara

Wale

Odindo

2022

Sci Rep

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Considerable progress has been made in developing human excreta recovery pathways and processes for maximum nutrient recovery and contaminant elimination. The demand segment has often been ignored as an area for future research, especially during the technology development. The findings from the few published articles on social acceptance show missing and inconclusive influence of demographic, sociological, and economic farmer-characteristics. This study endeavours to close this gap by using the social psychological theories, technology adoption theories and the new ecological paradigm to investigate the factors that influence the behavioral intentions of rural farmers to recycle human excreta in agriculture. Study findings show that social acceptance was driven by awareness, religiosity, income, source of income, and environmental dispositions. Perceived behavioral control represents a potential barrier to human excreta reuse. The study recommends the demographic, cultural, sociological, and economic mainstreaming of dissemination strategies of circular bioeconomy approaches within the context of agricultural innovation systems.

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Behavioral intentions of rural farmers to recycle human excreta in agriculture

Gwara

Wale

Odindo

2022

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“…Different development organizations and governments consider agricultural technologies as a feasible way to improve the productivity of the farms and the agricultural sector. Currently, a wide range of agricultural technologies are being adopted around the world, but their adoption decisions are largely determined by the culture and local agricultural environment ( Ruzzante et al., 2021 ). Specifically, when it comes to the developing countries of Africa, where agriculture provides the largest growth share, it is critical to look at the specific context of the country and determine that agricultural technologies are best suited to address many of these sustainable development goals including SDG1 or no poverty.…”

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Measuring the poverty reduction effects of adopting agricultural technologies in rural Ethiopia: findings from an endogenous switching regression approach

Zegeye

Meshesha

Shah

2022

Heliyon

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“…It is evident that when the water is made available, farmers were motivated to invest in new agricultural practices and explore new opportunities for crop intensification by investing in improved varieties, improved irrigation methods, farm machinery, and other farm inputs which enhanced their income and wellbeing (Ruzzante et al 2021). In contrast, under plot-level approach this self-motivation was relatively low as there was always uncertainty towards freshwater availability, which is the pre-requisite for crop intensification and reducing risks of crop failure.…”

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Landscape resource management for sustainable crop intensification

Anantha

Garg

Singh

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Environ. Res. Lett.

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Crop intensification is required to meet the food demands of an increasing population. This paper presents data from three paired scaling-up initiatives to compare the benefits of landscape-based interventions over individual plot-level interventions using evidence generated in the Indian semi-arid tropics. A range of soil and water conservation interventions were implemented in a decentralized manner following the landscape-based approach. The plot-level approach focused only on balanced fertilizer application and improved crop cultivars while the landscape-based interventions primarily addressed moisture availability, which was the key to reducing risks of crop failure besides aiding productivity gain and enhanced land and water-use efficiency. These interventions have additionally harvested 50-150 mm of surface runoff and facilitated groundwater recharge in 550-800 mm rainfall zones. Individual plot-level interventions also improved the crop yield significantly over the control plots. However, crop intensification was not achieved due to limited moisture availability. Landscape-based interventions produced 100-300% higher crop production per year, greater income generation (>100%), and improved water productivity. Landscape-based interventions were also found to be beneficial in terms of reducing soil loss by 75-90% and improving base flow availability additionally by 20-75 days in a year compared to untreated watersheds. With increased moisture availability, fallow lands in respective watersheds have been utilized for cultivation, thereby enhancing crop intensification. The findings of the study provide critical insights into the design of approaches suitable for scaling-up projects in order to both create impact and target the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

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Adoption of agricultural technology in the developing world: A meta-analysis of the empirical literature

Cited by 241 publications

References 86 publications

Behavioral intentions of rural farmers to recycle human excreta in agriculture

Behavioral intentions of rural farmers to recycle human excreta in agriculture

Measuring the poverty reduction effects of adopting agricultural technologies in rural Ethiopia: findings from an endogenous switching regression approach

Landscape resource management for sustainable crop intensification

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