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024 8 _ahttps://doi.org/10.1017/S1742170524000073
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041 _aeng
100 1 _aKarki, E.S.
_8001712184
_911274
_gFormerly Sustainable Agrifood Systems
245 1 0 _aStrategies to overcome stagnation in agricultural adoption despite awareness and interest :
_ba case study of conservation agriculture in South Asia
260 _bCambridge University Press,
_c2024.
_aUnited Kingdom :
500 _aPeer review
500 _aOpen Access
520 _aThe Eastern Gangetic Plains are a densely populated region of South Asia with comparatively low productivity yet a strong potential to intensify production to meet growing food demands. Conservation agriculture-based sustainable intensification (CASI) has gained academic and policy traction in the region, yet despite considerable promotional activities, uptake remains limited. Based on emerging evidence delving beyond a binary classification of adoption, this qualitative study seeks to explore the experiences and perspectives of smallholder farmers who express positive sentiments about CASI, yet have not progressed to (autonomous) adoption. After thematic coding of semi-structured interviews with 44 experimenting farmers and 38 interested non-users, ten common themes emerged that explain why farmers stagnate in their adoption process. Seven of the ten themes were non-specific to CASI and would constraint promotion and uptake of any agri-system change, highlighting the need for contextual clarity when promoting practice changes in smallholder systems. We summaries this to propose the ‘four T’s’ that are required to be addressed to enable agricultural change in smallholder systems: Targeting; Training; Targeted incentives; and Time. Through this more nuanced evaluation approach, we argue the need for a stronger focus on enabling environments rather than technological performance evaluations generically, if promotional efforts are to be successful and emerging sustainable intensification technologies are to be adopted by smallholder farmers.
546 _aText in English
591 _aSharma, A. : Not in IRS staff list but CIMMYT Affiliation
591 _aChaudhary, A. : Not in IRS staff list but CIMMYT Affiliation
591 _aSharma, R. : Not in IRS staff list but CIMMYT Affiliation
650 7 _aConservation agriculture
_2AGROVOC
_92619
650 7 _aDecision making
_2AGROVOC
_98770
650 7 _aSmallholders
_2AGROVOC
_91763
650 7 _aTechnology adoption
_2AGROVOC
_91287
650 0 _aZero tillage
_91754
650 7 _aSustainable intensification
_2AGROVOC
_91355
651 7 _2AGROVOC
_91956
_aSouth Asia
700 1 _aSharma, A.
_926320
700 1 _aTimsina, P.
_8001712187
_926385
_gSocioeconomics Program
700 1 _aChaudhary, A.
_911276
700 1 _aSharma, R.
_911277
700 1 _aBrown, B.
_8001711450
_94552
_gFormerly Sustainable Agrifood Systems
773 0 _tRenewable Agriculture and Food Systems
_gv. 39, e14
_dUnited Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2024
_x1742-1705
_wG78991
856 4 _yOpen Access through DSpace
_uhttps://hdl.handle.net/10883/23168
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