Straw used to be an important raw material for heating, cooking, and raising livestock in rural
areas. However, with the development of the economy, straw burning poses a great threat to …

Degradation in farmland quality owing to overuse emphasizes the current need for the
adoption of protective technologies to ensure food security and sustainable resource …

Purpose This study aims to examine farmers' decision to use smartphone agricultural
applications (SAAs) and how SAAs adoption impact their land transfer behaviors in terms of …

This paper examines the role of peer effects on farmers' decision to adopt Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAVs). This relationship is analysed by means of a Bayesian spatial …

Environmental sociologists have long attempted to explain the adoption of agricultural
conservation behaviors, drawing upon a wide range of theories of adoption and decision …

India faces significant air quality challenges, contributing to local health and global climate
concerns. Despite a national ban on agricultural residue burning and various incentive …

The transfer of farmland is an important area of rural development research; however, the
impact of rural social networks has been neglected in studies. The aim of this study is to …

The government and stakeholders in the US agricultural sector promote conservation
farming practices, but voluntary adoption is still a challenge among agricultural producers at …

Farmer wildlife management practices are critical to conserve biodiversity and ecosystem
functions across intensively used agricultural landscapes. Policies and initiatives aimed at …

Farmers' adoption of novel technologies is influenced by other farmers' behavior, a
phenomenon known as peer effects. Although such effects have been studied intensively …