“…Literature, mostly on the Latin American context where the adoption of cultivated forages is more advanced compared to East Africa, shows that it depends on numerous additional factors. These include e.g., risk factors (risk aversion, perception of risks regarding future returns) [66][67][68], knowledge and information about the technology itself (establishment and management processes and costs, benefits and risks associated with the technology) [69-71], labor requirements [72], access to productive inputs and capital (credit) [73][74][75], product differentiation strategies [76], extension and technical assistance [70,[77][78][79][80][81], the knowledge and innovation system [80,82,83], social capital and social networks (e.g., through farmer groups) [84][85][86][87][88][89], land prices, land tenure, land speculation [72,90,91], existing and evolving regulatory frameworks and political/institutional factors [92][93][94], and conflict [95].…”