Farmer adoption of plot- and farm-level natural resource management practices: between rhetoric and reality

There is a significant gap between the rhetoric of claims about adoption of farm-level natural resource management practices and the reality. New empirical evidence of low adoption from several developing countries suggests that on-farm natural resource management practices face significant constrai...

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Autores principales: Stevenson, James R., Vanlauwe, Bernard, Macours, Karen, Johnson, Nancy L., Krishnan, Lakshmi, Place, Frank, Spielman, David J., Hughes, Karl, Vlek, Paul L.G.
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100314
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Sumario:There is a significant gap between the rhetoric of claims about adoption of farm-level natural resource management practices and the reality. New empirical evidence of low adoption from several developing countries suggests that on-farm natural resource management practices face significant constraints to adoption, and that they deliver heterogeneous private and public benefits. Five recommendations are given to the research community related to: targeting; scaling-up; the proper role of research; trajectories of diffusion; and measurement of environmental impacts.