The adoption non-adoption dichotomy: Why do smallholder producers dis-adopt improved chicken breeds?

ABSTRACT: Adopting agricultural technologies is crucial to improve productivity and livelihoods in developing countries. While much research has focused on adoption decisions, understanding dis-adoption, when farmers stop using technology, is equally important. Studies on agricultural technology adoption often treat dis-adopters (those who initially adopted but later discontinued to use) and never-adopters (those who never adopted) as the same, using binary models to analyze farmers' decisions. We argue that a better understanding of these decisions can be achieved by separately analyzing 'never-adoption', 'dis-adoption', and 'adoption.' Using nationally representative data from three African countries, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Tanzania, we developed a multinomial logit model to analyze the adoption o

SUBMITTER: Birhanu MY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11527278 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature