Nowak, P.2016-04-192016-04-191987Rural Sociology 52(2): 208-2200036-0112http://hdl.handle.net/10919/68487Metadata only recordThis paper analyzes conservation agriculture technologies through diffusion, economic, and ecological factors. The author finds that the economic and diffusion perspectives are complementary in policy analysis. The adoption of conservation agriculture technologies will not occur if policy makers continue to assume that adoption is guided solely by economic rationality.text/plainen-USIn CopyrightConservation agricultureAdoption of innovationsEconomicsDiffusionAdoptionGovernanceThe adoption of agricultural conservation technologies: Economic and diffusion explanationsAbstractCopyright 1987 by the Rural Sociological Society