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, and (b) that under certain policy scenario assumptions, adoption of energy crops (Czech Republic) or conversion to organic …An investigation carried out at the farming system level on the sustainability dimensions and agricultural income …) the economic dimension as the leading one in terms of the overall sustainability rank position farming systems achieved …
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provision of an extension service is needed to underpin the ability of producers to efficiently convert to organic systems and … then to further develop the sustainability of their systems. This project commissioned by Organics Aotearoa New Zealand in … complete extension service for organic producers that combines national coordination, standard setting and information …
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Interviews and mail-out/mail-back surveys were conducted in 1992 with 38 conventional and 41 sustainable North Dakota farmers. The results emphasize the differences and similarities of these two types of farmers. Sustainable farms had more diverse cropping practices and were more likely to raise...
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The paper demonstrates a group incentive program to encourage farmer adoption of best management practices. It is … application differ from the simulated responses which in turn results in the willingness-to-Accept for adoption best management … demonstrate the benefits of sound management practices for larger adoption in the long run. …
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of access to credit on the adoption of hybrid maize among households that vary in their credit constraints. The data used … estimated using a switching regression in a Double-Hurdle model. Results reveal that while access to credit increases adoption … affect adoption among credit constrained households are different from those that that affect adoption among unconstrained …
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explicit consideration of knowledge of adoption processes. It is known from the literature that farmers’ goals and risk … perceptions in particular influence adoption decisions. This paper utilises the data from an earlier grazier survey to explore to … what extent grazier motivations and risk perceptions influence the adoption of BMPs. The results demonstrate clear …
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food producers have low resource capacity and this could limit the adoption of modern ICTs as a source of and media for …
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unemployment. This paper reports factor interrelationships in dairy adoption with a view to understanding factors that influence … adoption. The binary probit model was used to analyse data from 1575 households. Contrary to findings from similar studies … elsewhere, some factors had a negative association with adoption, thus unfolding a unique adoption process. The association …
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influence the adoption and intensity of utilization of BNMS technologies in the NGS of Nigeria. Results showed that less than 10 …, by 2005 the adoption of BNMS-rotation had reached 40% while that of BNMS-manure had reached 48%. A number of factors such … significant in determining farmers’ adoption decisions on BNMS-manure while off-farm income was found to be significant in …
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of access to credit on the adoption of hybrid maize among households that vary in their credit constraints. The data used … estimated using a switching regression in a Double-Hurdle model. Results reveal that while access to credit increases adoption … affect adoption among credit constrained households are different from those that that affect adoption among unconstrained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068437