Carlos Alberto Falcão Marques

Carlos Alberto Falcão Marques


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Academic Career Length

21Years (2006-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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17 November 2022 in Agronomy
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JRJosé Rosário
José Rosário
LMLivia Madureira
Livia Madureira
CMCarlos Alberto Falcão Marques
Carlos Alberto Falcão Marques
Rui SilvaRui Silva
Rui Silva
Adoption of sustainable agriculture innovations is acknowledged to be an effective response to agro-ecological challenges, such as climate change, pests, drought, natural catastrophes, and food insecurity. However, its level of dissemination is still low across the world, particularly in the Global South. There is a need for a better understanding of the adoption determinants of these innovations in order to enhance them. This paper presents a systematic literature review focused on the use of sociopsychological determinants to understand the adoption of sustainable agriculture innovations, combining conventional bibliometric analysis with the method of vote-count. This method enabled an evaluation of the ability of the determinants considered by the models, as well as respective sociopsychological constructs, to explain the innovation adoption. Our results show a significant growth in the research employing theory and models built on sociopsychological factors to understand the decision-making processes undertaken by farmers in the context of the adoption of sustainable agriculture innovations. The development of statistical models and techniques, such as the structural equation model (SEM), has facilitated the inclusion of a growing set of sociopsychological variables. However, our review highlights that the selection of the sociopsychological constructs used by research to explain farmers’ adoption of sustainability innovations relies mainly on constructs defined for other decisional contexts, such as the adoption of innovations by firms in other sectors. Hence, the low ability evidenced by the models to explain farmers’ adoption behavior is due to a poor selection of constructs. The review highlights that this poor selection is a result of repetition of constructs, such as attitude, subjective norms, and little inclusion of other relevant constructs such as knowledge. The paper suggests the need for a better selection of the innovation determinants and measurement of respective constructs adjusted to the case of agriculture and the specificities of the diverse geographical farming contexts.

1 March 2011 in Journal of Policy Modeling
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Rui FragosoRui Fragoso
Rui Fragoso
CMCarlos Alberto Falcão Marques
Carlos Alberto Falcão Marques
MLM.R. Lucas
M.R. Lucas
MMM.B. Martins
M.B. Martins
RJR. Jorge
R. Jorge

22 April 2018 in Environmental Science and Pollution Research
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VMVitor Moutinho
Vitor Moutinho
Mara MadalenoMara Madaleno
Mara Madaleno
Pedro MacedoPedro Macedo
Pedro Macedo
Margarita RobainaMargarita Robaina
Margarita Robaina
CMCarlos Alberto Falcão Marques
Carlos Alberto Falcão Marques

20 March 2015 in Fish Physiology and Biochemistry
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Ignacio FernándezIgnacio Fernández
Ignacio Fernández
PVParameswaran Vijayakumar
Parameswaran Vijayakumar
CMCarlos Alberto Falcão Marques
Carlos Alberto Falcão Marques
LCLeonor Cancela
Leonor Cancela
Paulo GavaiaPaulo Gavaia
Paulo Gavaia
Vincent LaizéVincent Laizé
Vincent Laizé

30 December 2015 in Agroforestry Systems
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Ana FonsecaAna Fonseca
Ana Fonseca
CMCarlos Alberto Falcão Marques
Carlos Alberto Falcão Marques
Teresa Pinto-CorreiaTeresa Pinto-Correia
Teresa Pinto-Correia
DCDaniel Campbell
Daniel Campbell

1 February 2007 in European Journal of Operational Research
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MMM. Belém Martins
M. Belém Martins
CMCarlos Alberto Falcão Marques
Carlos Alberto Falcão Marques