Farmer adoption of plot- and farm-level natural resource management practices: Between rhetoric and reality

There is a significant gap between the rhetoric of claims about adoption of farm-level natural resource management practices and the reality. New empirical evidence of low adoption from several developing countries suggests that on-farm natural resource management practices face significant constraints to adoption, and that they deliver heterogeneous private and public benefits. Five recommendations are given to the research community related to: targeting; scaling-up; the proper role of research; trajectories of diffusion; and measurement of environmental impacts.

Authors

Stevenson, J.,Vanlauwe, B.,Macours, K.,Johnson, N.,Krishnan, L.,Place, F.,Spielman, D.,Hughes, K.A.,Vlek, P.

Publication year

2020

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