Climate change has brought large instabilities in agricultural systems, in terms of both crop yield and net farm income. Climate smart agriculture is one of the innovative methods that tries to build resilience in agricultural systems.

Using information on varietal adoption of important cereal crops from a large-scale survey in India, this paper investigates “how social networks influence technology adoption behaviour of farm households.” Our key innovation is that unlike many o

Since oil prices’ decline in 2014, agriculture has received renewed interest in Nigeria as a key sector for achieving sustainable growth and generating foreign exchange.

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) published the first method-focused assessment of the applied economic literature about the ex ante and ex post impacts of genetically engineered crops in developing countries in 2009.

Farmer hiring of agricultural machinery services is common in South Asia.

This paper evaluates the role of social networks in the adoption of mustard hybrids.

The frontiers of technologies have been constantly expanded in many industries around the world, including the agricultural sector.

The study explores the diffusion process of innovators, early adopters, and late adopters of agricultural technologies.

This paper studies the high adoption of Pusa 44, a long-duration and old rice variety cultivated in Punjab, despite the availability of new short-duration varieties and the overall technological advancement of agriculture.

This study uses a large dataset that covers a wide geographical and agricultural scope to describe the use patterns of improved agro-technology in Uganda.

This paper complements the gender and technology adoption literature by shifting attention to what happens after adoption of a technology.

Adoption of productivity- and income-enhancing agricultural technologies is conspicuously low in Africa south of the Sahara.

This study was undertaken to assess farmers’ preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for various climate-smart interventions in the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

In view of the market failures and the state failures inherent in providing agricultural extension, community-based approaches, which involve farmers' groups, have gained increasing importance in recent years as a third way to provide this

This paper assesses long-term impacts of vegetable and polyculture fish production technologies on a variety of measures of household and individual well-being in Bangladesh.

This paper discusses micro-level practices for adapting to climate change that are available to small-scale farmers in Africa.

It has often been argued that new agricultural technologies lead to poverty reduction.