Household Characteristics and Agrarian Innovation Adoption in North-West Portugal

Bibliographic Data

ID8962342
AuthorsTim Unwin (0000-0001-5326-661X, corresponding author)
Year1987
Volume12
Issue2
Pages131-131
Publication date1987-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2307/622523
OpenAlexW2322738516
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited10

The influence of household characteristics on the adoption of a selection of agrarian innovations is investigated in Entre-Douro e Minho. At the regional scale it appears that younger, better educated heads of household who have farmed for all of their lives, on large holdings producing primarily for the market are the most likely to adopt new agricultural equipment and techniques. However, there are great differences between villages within the region, and two types of farm economy are revealed, the one subsistence and the other commercial. In neither of these are the generalizations made at the regional scale appropriate. Investigation of the structure of innovation adoption through time reveals the complex nature of structural change in Portuguese agriculture

Agrarian society · Agrarian structure · Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Business · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Geography · Portuguese · Scale (ratio · Subsistence agriculture · Rural development and sustainability

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