Understanding and promoting adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders
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Understanding and promoting adoption of conservation technologies by rural landholders
Research on adoption of rural innovations is reviewed and interpreted through a cross-disciplinary lens to provide practical guidance for research, extension and policy relating to conservation technologies. Adoption of innovations by landholders is presented as a dynamic learning process. Adoption depends on a range of personal, social, cultural and economic factors, as well as on characterist...
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عنوان ژورنال: Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0816-1089
DOI: 10.1071/ea05037