The gap between technology awareness and adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa: A literature review for the DeSIRA project

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.contributor.donorEuropean Commissionen
cg.coverage.countryMalawi
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2MW
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Africa
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierCynthia Kazembe: 0000-0003-2514-8418
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134301en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Malawi Strategy Support Program
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.identifier.urlhttps://mediaspace.msu.edu/playlist/dedicated/1_8eb2d2e3/1_uyw9gkjhen
cg.number21-Feben
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorKazembe, Cynthiaen
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-22T12:15:28Zen
dc.date.available2024-05-22T12:15:28Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143598
dc.titleThe gap between technology awareness and adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa: A literature review for the DeSIRA projecten
dcterms.abstractThis paper reviews different studies on technology adoption in sub-Saharan Africa to understand the determinants of low adoption of improved technologies, with a special focus on Malawi. This will in turn help explain why there is a gap between awareness and adoption of agriculture technologies. As evidenced from the results of the FGDs conducted in Malawi in 2018, despite the visible benefits of the new technologies, farmers often do not adopt or take a long time to adopt them. This creates a gap between awareness of agriculture technologies and their adoption. The existing literature from sub-Saharan Saharan Africa, demonstrates that adoption, as a decision-making process, is affected by farmers’ access to information, their financial and human capital, incentives and external programs, plus farmers’ attitude to risk.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationKazembe, Cynthia. 2021. The gap between technology awareness and adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa: A literature review for the DeSIRA project. IFPRI Project February 2021. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134301. https://mediaspace.msu.edu/playlist/dedicated/1_8eb2d2e3/1_uyw9gkjhen
dcterms.extent10 p.en
dcterms.isPartOfIFPRI Project Noteen
dcterms.issued2021-02-01
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/134301en
dcterms.subjectinnovationen
dcterms.subjecthuman capitalen
dcterms.subjectcapitalen
dcterms.subjecttechnology adoptionen
dcterms.subjectfertilizersen
dcterms.subjectagricultural extensionen
dcterms.subjectagricultural technologyen
dcterms.subjecttechnologyen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectincentivesen
dcterms.subjectadoptionen
dcterms.subjectagricultural developmenten
dcterms.subjectaccess to informationen
dcterms.subjectrisken
dcterms.typeBrief

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