Adopting community-based innovations in agroforestry is key to enhancing livelihoods in forest farmer communities.This research aimed to explore the perceived advantages of the forest farmer technique of coffee branch...Adopting community-based innovations in agroforestry is key to enhancing livelihoods in forest farmer communities.This research aimed to explore the perceived advantages of the forest farmer technique of coffee branch bending to overcome the light limitations under the shade of a pine forest.The concepts of perceived characteristics of innovation were used to explore the advantages of this technique.Using a case study of an exclusive forest farmer clique in UB(University of Brawijaya)Forest in Indonesia,it was found that the local technique had high perceived relative advantages.Compared to the others,the bending technique increases coffee production and is easy to do.It was also found to be superior to reducing production costs and is perceived as more environmentally friendly,promoting it as a valuable sustainable practice.Technical experts need to validate it and may embrace it as a co-innovation for the available external agroforestry recommendations.Its adaptability to the local socio-ecological context and techno-economical constraints makes it a prospective innovation to be extended through social forestry programs.展开更多
A netbook, Internet-enabled and with extra portability, has been fast-growing in the domain of information technology （IT） in recent years. Compared with standardized laptops or desktop computers, a netbook＇s key f...A netbook, Internet-enabled and with extra portability, has been fast-growing in the domain of information technology （IT） in recent years. Compared with standardized laptops or desktop computers, a netbook＇s key features include a shrunken-down and lightweight laptop that is ＂easy to learn, easy to work, and easy to play＂. This research is to empirically test the influence of user perceptions of this new form of IT （usability, compatibility and relative advantage） associated with playfulness and attitude toward purchase intention. In addition, personal innovativeness of an individual plays an important role in the antecedents of such perceptions. A test of this model, two-stage approach, confirmatory factor analysis （CFA） and structural equation model （SEM） are employed to validate the casual model from among 227 usable respondents who have been using a laptop for more than two years. Results showed support for eleven of twelve research hypotheses, and one new path linking personal innovativeness with attitude toward using is found to be non-siznificant.展开更多
基金funded by the Faculty of Agriculture,University of Brwijaya,Indonesia.
文摘Adopting community-based innovations in agroforestry is key to enhancing livelihoods in forest farmer communities.This research aimed to explore the perceived advantages of the forest farmer technique of coffee branch bending to overcome the light limitations under the shade of a pine forest.The concepts of perceived characteristics of innovation were used to explore the advantages of this technique.Using a case study of an exclusive forest farmer clique in UB(University of Brawijaya)Forest in Indonesia,it was found that the local technique had high perceived relative advantages.Compared to the others,the bending technique increases coffee production and is easy to do.It was also found to be superior to reducing production costs and is perceived as more environmentally friendly,promoting it as a valuable sustainable practice.Technical experts need to validate it and may embrace it as a co-innovation for the available external agroforestry recommendations.Its adaptability to the local socio-ecological context and techno-economical constraints makes it a prospective innovation to be extended through social forestry programs.
文摘A netbook, Internet-enabled and with extra portability, has been fast-growing in the domain of information technology （IT） in recent years. Compared with standardized laptops or desktop computers, a netbook＇s key features include a shrunken-down and lightweight laptop that is ＂easy to learn, easy to work, and easy to play＂. This research is to empirically test the influence of user perceptions of this new form of IT （usability, compatibility and relative advantage） associated with playfulness and attitude toward purchase intention. In addition, personal innovativeness of an individual plays an important role in the antecedents of such perceptions. A test of this model, two-stage approach, confirmatory factor analysis （CFA） and structural equation model （SEM） are employed to validate the casual model from among 227 usable respondents who have been using a laptop for more than two years. Results showed support for eleven of twelve research hypotheses, and one new path linking personal innovativeness with attitude toward using is found to be non-siznificant.
