Table 1.

Overview of literature review papers on factors influencing conservation practices or BMPs adoption.

Source	Location/Extent	Data	Method	Conservation Practices
Rubas [49]	Global	170 studies from 32 countries	Meta-analysis	Agricultural production technologies
Emtage et al. [50]	Australia	*	Descriptive	Natural Resource Management Programs
Kabii and Horwitz [51]	Global	*	Descriptive	Conservation easement (or covenanting) programs
Pannell et al. [28]	Global	*	Descriptive	Conservation practices
Knowler and Bradshaw [26]	Global	31 empirical analyses (1984–2002)	Vote count	Conservation agriculture (soil conservation practices)
Prokopy et al. [29]	US	55 studies of literature from 25 years	Vote count	BMPs were defined as the actual implementation of a practice that could be expected to lead to improved water quality-not something that needs done in order to implement a BMP
Ahnström et al. [33]	Global	Literature up to Spring of 2005 *	Descriptive	Conservation practices in general
Blackstock et al. [52]	Global	*	Descriptive	BMPs in general
Lahmar [39]	Global KASSA project (28 partners from 18 countries in Europe, North Africa, South-East Asia and Latin America)	*	Descriptive	Conservation agriculture
Llewellyn et al. [53]	Global	*	Descriptive with case studies	Conservation practices
Tomer and Locke [54]	US	USDA CEAP	Descriptive	Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), cover crops, livestock nutrient/pasture management, reduced or no-tillage, riparian practices, nitrogen fertilizer rate and timing, sediment control structures
Baumgart-Getz et al. [25]	US	46 studies from 1982 to 2007	Meta-analysis	BMPs in general
American Farmland Trust [55]	Global	*	Descriptive	Conservation practices
Stuart and Gillon [48]	US	*	Descriptive with case studies	Conservation programs
Burton [56]	Global	53 papers	Descriptive and vote count	Environmental behavior in general (focus on the farmer demographic characteristics)
Daloğlu et al. [57]	Global	*	Descriptive	Conservation practices
Lesch and Wachenheim [58]	Global	*	Descriptive	Tillage practices, riparian buffers and forest, technology adoption, conservation reserve enhancement program (CREP), Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)
Rode et al. [59]	Global	18 empirical studies	Descriptive	Conservation in general (focus on the economics incentives of crowding in and crowing out)
Wachenheim et al. [60]	Global	*	Descriptive	Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)
Weber and McCann [61]	Global with case studies	*	Descriptive	v Best management practices, nitrogen-efficient plant arieties, precision agriculture, and other eco-innovations
Woods et al. [62]	US	13 cropland watershed-scale studies	Descriptive	Conservation tillage (no-till), terraces, grassed waterways, irrigation management, nutrient management, riparian buffers and stream fencing

^*Number of studies is not clear.