Journal
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Volume 174, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121185
Keywords
Technological innovation; Climate change; Institutions; Aquaponics; Fish farmers; Colombia
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- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark [17-M11-DTU]
- EIT Climate-KIC's Master Label Program
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Several adoption models have been developed to explain the dynamics behind the uptake of new technologies in food-production systems, but external forces affecting farmers' decision-making processes have not been fully considered. This study argues that climate change and institutions are latent explanatory variables worth attention. Findings indicate that climate variables and complex institutional structures negatively influence fish farming activities.
Several adoption models have been developed to explain the dynamics behind the uptake of new technologies in food-production systems. However, the literature has yet to consider a range of external forces that affect farmers' decision-making processes. We argue that climate change and institutions are latent explanatory variables that require attention in the literature on aquatic-based innovations. Our aim is to conduct an ex-ante analysis focusing on these two external forces in the context of aquaculture and the adoption of aquaponics technology in Colombia. We use an embedded case-study design incorporating a qualitative and exploratory approach and employ two categories of fish-farming production systems as units of analysis. We triangulate our findings using non-probability sampling techniques and use our findings as a benchmark to discuss the potential adoption of aquaponics technology. Our findings suggest that fluctuations in rainfall and drought are the most important climate variables influencing negatively fish farming activities. Furthermore, we find that the complex institutional structures involved create unequal informal mechanisms among fish-farming production systems. We argue for context-specific designs when considering the adoption of aquaponics and conclude that, while fishfarming production systems encounter these external forces differently, heterogeneity also exists within systems, revealing intricacies worth considering.
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