The relative importance of factors influencing the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices: a factor approach for Malaysian vegetable farmers

Drivers for the Adoption of Different Eco-Innovation Types in the Fertilizer Sector: A Review

“…Innovation of other types change the whole way of fertilizer usage and therefore mostly include more than one innovation characteristic. A high number of publications, classified as disruptive innovations, deal with new cultivation or farming methods regarding the application, use and management of fertilizers (e.g., [76][77][78]). In developing countries, these new cultivation methods even estimate the use of mineral fertilizers only.…”

“…Consequentially, high productive systems are producing at the yield maximum and low productive systems as environmental friendly as possible. That could also mean to shift certain cultivars to better fitted areas making agricultural environments more specialized (e.g., [78,83]). One publication estimated the influence of nanotechnologies on the fertilizer use and production [84].…”

“…The involvement in groups, co-operations or in advisory council could stimulate the consideration of disruptive process innovations [67,78,[97][98][99][100] (Table 5). Furthermore, it can provide a good information exchange, which is also an important trigger for the adoption of disruptive process innovations [67,78,83,97,99,101,102].…”

“…Furthermore, it can provide a good information exchange, which is also an important trigger for the adoption of disruptive process innovations [67,78,83,97,99,101,102]. To push a new production technology, farmers need to have access to a market where they can buy the technology or the knowledge about this specific technology and where they can get a credit for this particular purchase.…”

“…To push a new production technology, farmers need to have access to a market where they can buy the technology or the knowledge about this specific technology and where they can get a credit for this particular purchase. Therefore, access to credit [67,76,78,98,[103][104][105][106] and a market access [67,[97][98][99]104,106,107] are important. Disruptive process innovation seems to be sooner adopted by male farmers than by female ones [76,78,[97][98][99][100]103,107].…”