Research Questions

 The broader research questions of this study include:

1. What motivates indigenous people to use traditional agricultural practices (TAP)?

2. What factors influence American Indian farmers' decision-making to use or not use
 traditional agricultural practices (TAP)?

 Definitions

* Attitude: a person's judgment that performing the behavior is good or bad

* Control Beliefs: beliefs about the presence of factors that may facilitate or impede
 performance of a behavior

* Diffusion of Innovation: process by which new ideas are communicated through
 certain channels over time among the members of a social system

* Farmer: An individual who actively cultivates land for food production. This
 definition is not based on farm/garden size, amount of time spent cultivating, or
 amount of sales related to production. This definition is inclusive of cash crop
 farmers and subsistence farmers or gardeners

* Perceived Behavioral Control: an individual's perceived ease or difficulty in
 performing a specific behavior

* Self-efficacy: an individual's confidence about their capabilities to produce effects

* Subjective Norms: perceived social pressures that the individual believes are
 exerted on him/her to perform a specific behavior.

* Traditional Agricultural Practices (TAP) : agroecological management behaviors
 that a farmer performs which are transmitted from one generation to another;
 agricultural innovations which were not developed during and after the Green
 Revolution