TY - JOUR T1 - Determinants of adoption of drought adaptations among vegetable growers in Florida JF - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation SP - 218 LP - 231 DO - 10.2489/jswc.70.4.218 VL - 70 IS - 4 AU - E.A. van Dijl AU - K.A. Grogan AU - T. Borisova Y1 - 2015/07/01 UR - http://www.jswconline.org/content/70/4/218.abstract N2 - In the United States, Florida ranks second among states for both value and land area of vegetable production, but this production is affected by periodic droughts. Florida has experienced at least one severe and widespread drought every decade since 1900, and climate change projections show that meteorological droughts will occur more often in the future. While drought and climate change affect the supply side, population growth is expected to affect the demand side of water availability. Given these threats to future water availability, the adoption of drought adaptation and water conservation measures is of increasing importance in Florida. Using a 2013 survey of Florida vegetable growers, this paper addresses two main components of this problem. First, we assess the current rates of adoption of drought adaptation measures. Second, we analyze which factors influence or impede the adoption of these measures to provide policy recommendations to increase adoption in the future. We find low rates of adoption of adaptations, ranging from 13% to 55%, and factors determining who adopts a given adaptation vary by adaptation. Factors can have opposite effects on the probability of adoption across different adaptations. Unlike most previous work, we find that growers with more education have lower rates of adoption of water augmentation measures, and lack of land ownership does not necessarily impede adoption of adaptations with large initial investment. ER -