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About Geoff Kaine
Geoff Kaine is a Senior Policy Researcher in Practice Change Platform and is based at Tatura, Victoria. He has degrees in economics from the University of New England and has been employed as a contract researcher on rural and farming issues for the past twenty years.
His major areas of interest are natural resource management and propertyright systems, and the adoption of innovations in agriculture. He has undertaken studies on the uptake of a range of technologies in irrigation, animal health, animal breeding, pest and disease management and soil management across a range of agricultural industries in Australia and New Zealand.
He has served as an advisor to the QLD, NSW and NZ governments on the design and implementation of a range of MBIs to manage water allocations, water quality and air quality. Geoff has also been involved in a variety of other projects including analysing extension networks, quantifying the factors influencing hearing loss on farms, succession and inheritance in farm families, stress in farm families and the role of market signals in promoting sustainable farming practices.
Geoff is currently involved in studies on adoption of soil and petiole testing in viticulture, compliance behaviour in dairy effluent management, policy instrument design for managing nutrient emissions from agriculture in Gippsland, and developing methods for designing policy instrument to manage the impacts of climate change.
View symposium presentation: Identifying the Potential Adopters of an Agricultural Innovation
Abstract
In the paper Geoff will describe a method that has been developed for identifying the population of potential adopters of an agricultural innovation. The method is, in essence, a process for discovering how agricultural innovations contribute to satisfying the needs of primary producers as managers of agricultural enterprises. The method draws on consumer behaviour theory and farming systems theory. Geoff will illustrate the method by application to a case study in Victoria, and will discuss the fit of the method with the major paradigms in agricultural extension.
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