Examining the effects of absorptive capacity and social capital on the adoption of agricultural innovations: A Canadian Prairie case study

Micheels, Eric T.; Nolan, James

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2016.03.010

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“…Particularly for the adoption of technologies that are costly, such as those embodied in capital equipment, existing wealth, off-farm income, and access to credit tend to favor adoption of new technologies (Feder et al 1985;Knowler and Bradshaw 2007). The literature also highlights the influence of social networks (Micheels and Nolan 2016;Hunecke et al 2017), both to assist with learning (Besley and Case 1993;Conley and Udry 2010) and to build household support related to costly adoption decisions that are difficult to test ahead of time and costly to undo (Pannell et al 2006).…”

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What drives voluntary adoption of farming practices that can abate nutrient pollution?

Luther¹,

Swinton²,

Deynze³

2020

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

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Agricultural nutrient runoff and leaching into groundwater can impose societal costs that may be external to farmer decisions. Farmers can reduce the environmental impact of nutrient losses by adopting conservation and precision nutrient diagnostic and application practices. We examine the determinants of adoption decisions of such practices using mail survey data from a large, stratified sample of corn (Zea mays L.) and soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) farmers in the US eastern Corn Belt. Via an ordered probit that captures both adoption and intent to adopt eight different practices, we evaluate a broad range of potential factors driving adoption of conservation and precision agriculture practices. We find that farmer objectives other than income, such as preferences for environmental amenities or social status, were important adoption drivers for conservation and precision technologies, respectively. Livestock farms had a distinct adoption profile, with greater likelihood to adopt cover cropping and less to adopt precision technologies. Farmers who participated in working lands programs were more likely to adopt both cover cropping and precision soil testing technologies. Policies and messaging to encourage voluntary adoption of practices to reduce agricultural nutrient loss should account for farmer objectives, farming systems, and existing policy incentives.

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What drives voluntary adoption of farming practices that can abate nutrient pollution?

Luther¹,

Swinton²,

Deynze³

2020

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

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“…In the context of agricultural innovation, it is widely argued that social capital allows for access to resources that foster agricultural innovation, such as knowledge and funding, but also moral support (Fisher, 2013;Tregear & Cooper, 2016). Micheels and Nolan (2016) have shown that social capital is more important than farm size in determining the number of technologies and practices adopted. More specifically, the three different forms of social capital (bonding, bridging, and linking) each provide for different sorts of exchanges.…”

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“…Bridging and linking social capital allows for greater access to formal researchbased knowledge, innovative experiences elsewhere, and training and financial resources (Ruiu et al, 2017;Saint Ville et al, 2016;Yu et al, 2013), opening opportunities for diversifying forms of production and business models. For example, Micheels and Nolan (2016) mention that farmers with greater bridging and linking social capital likely have greater capacity to acquire and assimilate knowledge about new (cutting-edge) technologies and practices coming from sources external to the farm (known as absorptive capacity). Furthermore, they have a better understanding of how these new technologies and practices can resolve different kinds of issues on their farms (crop management, marketing, and so on).…”

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Innovating social connectedness for agricultural innovations in eastern Ethiopia

Wedajo

Jilito

2020

Cogent Food & Agriculture

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Agricultural innovations can be triggered by the social networks in which farmers have purposefully organized to support themselves. This paper, therefore, explores the values of social connectedness within locally established societies' mutual support associations for agricultural innovations. This study explains how mutual support social network associations trigger agricultural innovations and the way farmers utilize such networks to spiral agricultural innovations. Indigenous mutual support associations like Guuza, Iqubi and Afoosha function in trust-based self-enforcing orders, social networks and relationships in a more flexible and reciprocity-based order. These informal social networks are employed by farmers to collaborate on society's mutual support practices. Trust, norms and group membership are the key components of social capital within indigenous mutual support associations. The social connectedness within the sort of labor-sharing arrangement, informal financial group, funeral association and inter-village link aids member's collective capacity to figure the development of agricultural innovations. Inherently embedded social networks, mutual support, information sharing, interaction and trust among the members within mutual support associations are the ABOUT THE AUTHORS

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“…Para la construcción de la variable IE, el estudio contribuye a la concepción del término desde la perspectiva del capital social al considerar la interacción de los vínculos que se tienen con otros actores (Lang & Fink, 2019;Migliore et al, 2015;Ruiz-Ortega, Parra-Requena, García-Villaverde, & Rodrigo-Alarcon, 2017), reconocido por varios autores en la literatura como aspecto clave para tomar decisiones (Hunecke, Engler, Jara-Rojas, & Poortvliet, 2017); adoptar el riesgo (Wossen, Berger, & Di Falco, 2015); desarrollar innovación agrícola (Micheels & Nolan, 2016); promover el bienestar social (Raymond-Flesch, Auerswald, McGlone, Comfort, & Minnis, 2017); resuelve problemas de recursos escasos como el uso del agua en el riego (Yoder & Roy Chowdhury, 2018) y contribuye al desarrollo sostenible (He, Zhang, Feng, Hu, & Zhang, 2016).…”

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Intención emprendedora en los productores de chile del estado de Aguascalientes: Perspectiva desde las relaciones de colaboración

Montoya

Vega-Martínez

Miramontes-Acevedo

2020

IyCUAA

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Las redes de colaboración son un tópico relevante para el desarrollo económico, social e individual de los emprendedores. Se tiene como base la teoría de los recursos y capacidades para analizar las redes que tienen los productores de chile con otros actores del sector. El estudio tiene como objetivo principal medir los efectos de las redes de colaboración, tanto empresariales como institucionales sobre las intenciones emprendedoras. Se realizó un estudio empírico con 94 agricultores ubicados en el estado de Aguascalientes, México. Las hipótesis planteadas se contrastaron a partir de regresiones multivariantes. Los resultados obtenidos más relevantes se centran en las redes institucionales como detonantes de la intención emprendedora, teniendo efectos diferentes entre sí al conjuntar la escolaridad y la experiencia en el modelo. De la misma manera, las contribuciones teóricas recaen en el desarrollode una perspectiva de la intención emprendedora sustentada en la formación académica con implicaciones importantes.

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Examining the effects of absorptive capacity and social capital on the adoption of agricultural innovations: A Canadian Prairie case study

Cited by 94 publications

References 68 publications

What drives voluntary adoption of farming practices that can abate nutrient pollution?

What drives voluntary adoption of farming practices that can abate nutrient pollution?

Innovating social connectedness for agricultural innovations in eastern Ethiopia

Intención emprendedora en los productores de chile del estado de Aguascalientes: Perspectiva desde las relaciones de colaboración

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