Innovations on Family Farms: The Nazareth Region in Israel
分析以色列拿撒勒地区阿拉伯社会制度下影响家庭农场创新性的因素，发现风险承受力、推广服务和用水配额有正面影响，而土地面积有负面影响，表明小面积土地激励采纳高收益集约型创新。
Abstract This paper analyzes factors that affect innovativeness on family farms under Arab social and institutional systems in the Nazareth region in the north of Israel. The adoption of five different innovations was studied and an “index of innovativeness” was constructed. Innovativeness was found to be affected positively by risk tolerance, extension, and water quota allotment and affected negatively by the farm's land area. The latter result supports the hypothesis that a small land area provides an incentive to adopt high‐payoff, input‐intensive innovations. Innovativeness is affected by extension but not necessarily by education. This result implies that farmers with elementary school education are capable of adopting complex technologies if proper extension services are provided.