adoptability definition
adoptability criterion means that the techniques and systems proposed for development should be capable of adoption by a significant percentage of the intended users. This implies, for example, that the technologies must not call upon resources which the farmers are not likely to possess (e.g. excessive capital, machinery or labour requirements) nor be incompatible with unchangable features of the,existing land use system, nor require forms of'management the farmers are.unable or unwilling to adopt (e.g. keeping livestock off pastures for prolonged periods). In recognizing adoptability as a design criterion on an equal footing with productivity and sustainability, the agroforestry designer accepts the challenge of addressing the social as well as the physical dimensions of land use systems. The D&D methodology is intended to provide assistance in carrying out this more demanding, and yet potentially far more successful, approach to design.