Modernisation in agriculture: what makes a farmer adopt an innovation?

A New Brand of Agriculture? Farmer-Owned Brands Reward Innovation

What Makes an Early Adopter ? Transforming Landscapes One Farmer at a Time

Articles 7 What Makes an Early Adopter? Transforming Landscapes One Farmer at a Time by Alicia Calle, MESc 2008 15 Ignorance or Exclusion? Forest Knowledge and Social Hierarchies in Community-Level Conservation in the Petén, Guatemala by Micha Rahder, MESc 2008 21 Conservation in Flux: Pursuing Social Resilience in Mozambique and Peru by James Leslie, joint MESc-MBA 2008 28 Understanding Stakeh...

What makes an Innovation Radical? Finding the "radicalness" in radical innovation adoption

This study explores the factors that contribute towards the perception of an innovation as radical by its adopters. This paper addresses an important conceptual gap in the innovation literature by identifying the attributes which make an innovation radical. Prior conceptualizations of radicalness have been useful but incomplete and have often assumed that term “radicalness of an innovation” is ...

Agricultural Innovation: Sustaining What Agriculture? For What European Bio-Economy?

What makes organic agriculture move - protest, meaning or market

Many different actors have hopes and aspirations for the future of organic agriculture. They have different perspectives on organic agriculture with different understandings of what it is and what makes it move. Each perspective entails a certain understanding of organic agriculture featuring certain concepts and values and a particular logic or rationality. It is important to acknowledge this ...