Rutherford, Tracy (author / Texas A & M), Wingenbach, Gary J. (author / Texas A & M), Fritz, Susan (author / University of Nebraska--Lincoln), Husmann, Dann (author / University of Nebraska--Lincoln), Egger, Valerie (author / University of Nebraska--Lincoln), and Wadhwa, Preeti (author / University of Nebraska--Lincoln)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
USA: AgBioForum
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 177 Document Number: C30376
Phase II, Raises several questions about prevailing conception of adopters and adoption behavior. Specifically, the author argues that research has failed to take into account variations in farming environments, natural physical parameters, and the social organization of resources as factors influencing peasant farmers' adoption behavior. More attention ought to be given to the location specific constraints, characteristics and requirements of specific technologies, and to the general issue of whether identical technologies are equivalent innovations in different agro-climatic environments. Drawing on data from several villages in Nepal, the author shows that rates of adoption are location specific, that is, influenced more by agro-climatic conditions and socioeconomic organization than by inter-village differences in propensity to innovate. Ecological suitably and varying levels of farm resources have a direct effect on technology utilization.
International: Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D11096
Notes:
281 pages., "By drawing on many examples from around the world, this book explains that our approach to managing water can and must be changed if we are to avoid a global water crisis. Includes a table identifying barriers to adoption of water-sharing technologies.
