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Download full textHiggins, Mary Anne – 1996
This paper begins by providing a thorough history and review of the diffusion of innovations research tradition. It then focuses on undesirable, indirect, and unanticipated consequences of innovations based on the dominant paradigm of development. In the case of high-input agriculture, the consequences have affected the quality of the environment…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Developing Nations, Development Communication, Diffusion (Communication)
