adapt their practices over the years, the time of dis-adoption is
not easily obtained. This is probably one of the reasons why
GAP adoption studies have not looked at the potential factors
leading to dis-adoption. This article aims to fill this gap by
identifying the factors that influenced farmers to adopt and
eventually dis-adopt GAP standards from a cross-section of
farmers and to evaluate differences in their practices. This was
deemed acceptable since the program has been introduced for
some time in the province and we could consider the adoption
process as “complete” (Moser and Barrett, 2006). This also
allowed us to study separately the decisions to participate to
the GAP program and the adoption of technologies.