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Adoption of Agricultural Innovations in Developing Countries: A Survey

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Feder, Gershon, Just, Richard E., Zilberman, David·1985·Economic Development and Cultural Change
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  • Education increases farmers' ability to understand and evaluate information on new products and processes, thereby incentivizing them to adopt new technologies.

    “The underlying hypothesis of such an argument is that education increases the ability of farmers to 'understand and evaluate the information on new products and processes', thereby incentivizing them to adopt new technologies (Feder, Just, and Zilberman, 1985).”

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  • The demographic changes induced by partition could be a plausible mechanism for the effects seen.

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    The aggregate-adoption discussion (p. 61) considers socioeconomic differences, landholding patterns, and wealth accumulation, but does not discuss partition-induced demographic change or link it to the citing paper’s effects. Searches for “partition” and “demographic changes” found no passage addressing that proposed mechanism. (LLM, conf=0.76)

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Feder, G., Just, R. E., & Zilberman, D.
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Zilberman, David
Venue
Economic Development and Cultural Change
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published
1985-01
Volume
33
Issue
2
Pages
255-298
ISSN
  • 0013-0079 (ISSN-L)
  • 1539-2988
DOI
10.1086/451461
OpenAlex
W2281528595
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FWCI
62.67
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Language
en
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Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agricultural Innovations and Practices
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agricultural Economics and Practices
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
Keywords
agricultural innovation, technology adoption, developing countries, agricultural technology, diffusion of innovations

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