s:1748:"%T Economic aspects of soil fertility management and agroforestry practices 
%A Izac, A-M.N. 
%X Analyses  of  adoption  of  soil  fertility  management  and  agroforestry practices  by  farmers  in  tropical  countries  are  relatively  sparse.  They provide a patchwork picture of cases where adoption occurred relatively rapidly and was quite widespread and other cases where adoption did not occur  on  any  significant  scale.  This  chapter  deals  with  the  economic
concepts  that  can  be  used  by  scientists  interested  in  increasing  the probability of adoption of soil fertility management practices by farmers.It is stated in Chapter 1 of this book that: ‘When designing or improving agroforestry techniques it is ... important that the technique is matched
with the fertility problems that are seen as priorities at a given site rather than assuming that every type of agroforestry will improve soil fertility in general.’ The goal in this chapter is to present economic concepts for matching  soil  fertility  interventions  to  both  farmers’  constraints  and objectives and those of society in order to increase their likelihood of adoption. The chapter highlights key economic concepts and processes
that biophysical scientists should find helpful in putting their own work into the broader context of the farmer’s economic environment. It does not attempt to provide detailed discussions of economic approaches to the assessment   of   agroforestry   practices   for   professional   economists (economists  are  not  the  major  intended  audience  for  this  book). Furthermore such detailed discussions are not readily available in the
literature and therefore may constitute a gap which needs to be filled. 
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