Ibnu Budiman, a PhD candidate under Smart-In-Ag, has published his paper entitled “Socio-environmental systems in technology adoption in animal husbandry in South-East Asia: A framework synthesis approach” in the Impact in Agricultural and Life Sciences journal.
The study employed a framework synthesis approach to identified factors affecting the smallholders’ decision-making in innovation adoption in animal husbandry in South-East Asia (SEA) and unravelled the interactions between these factors. The study identified 19 adoption factors: 7 individual, 6 socio-institutional, and 6 environmental factors – subdivided into 58 subfactors and scored on their influence on farmers’ decision-making processes.
The study resulted into a Framework for Innovation Adoption of Animal Husbandry Farmers in SEA (FIFSEA). The FIFSEA allows stakeholders such as the government, (development) practitioners, and technology promotors to build and explore options and scenarios on which factors and actors they can intervene to trigger change in the social system and evaluate their effects on shaping system behaviour and the overall system dynamics of technology transfer for smart farming.
The paper is open-access and can be accessed at: Budiman, I., Wagemakers, A., Derks, M., Sahara, & Moore, S. (2024). Socio-environmental systems in technology adoption in animal husbandry in South-East Asia: A framework synthesis approach. NJAS: Impact in Agricultural and Life Sciences, 96:1, 2349518.
Many congratulations to Ibnu and the co-authors!
