The rate and sequence of adoption of improved cereal technologies: the case of rainfed barley in the Mexican Altiplano

dc.creatorByerlee, D.
dc.creatorHesse, E.
dc.date2012-01-06T05:05:12Z
dc.date2012-01-06T05:05:12Z
dc.date1982
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-17T19:55:07Z
dc.date.available2023-07-17T19:55:07Z
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10883/819
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/7508148
dc.descriptionIn efforts to understand the process of agricultural develoµtent, economists and other social scientists have invested substantial resources in literally hundreds of studies of the adoption of new agricultural technologies. Recent reviews of these studies (Rogers, 1976; Byrnes, 1982; Feder, 1981) indicate that despite this large amount of research, there remain three major deficiencies in our empirical knowledge of the adoption of agricultural technologies. First, most adoption studies have had a "pro-innovation" bias that assumes that the innovation is "right" and that patterns of adoption therefore relate to the socioeconomic characteristics of the farmer. However, the extensive series of adoption studies completed by the CIMMYT Economics Program highlighted the fact that major differences in adoption of technologies usually arose from variation, sometimes subtle, in the agroclimatic environment (Perrin and Winkelmann, 1976). Farmers rejecting the technology were acting quite rationally because the technology was not suitable for their particular circumstances. The only farmer characteristic that consistently appeared as important in the CIMMYT studies was farm size and, even here, there was evidence that after an initial tine lag, small farmers usually adopted the same technologies as larger farmers.
dc.description44 pages
dc.formatPDF
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherCIMMYT
dc.relationCIMMYT Economics Working Paper
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dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
dc.subjectBARLEY
dc.subjectCEREALS
dc.subjectCLIMATE
dc.subjectINNOVATION ADOPTION
dc.subjectBARLEY
dc.subjectCEREALS
dc.subjectCLIMATE
dc.subjectINNOVATION ADOPTION
dc.titleThe rate and sequence of adoption of improved cereal technologies: the case of rainfed barley in the Mexican Altiplano
dc.typeWorking Paper
dc.coverageMexico
dc.coverageMexico


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