The adoption of innovations and Precision Agriculture Technologies (PAT) is fundamental for establishing the patterns of agricultural production. However, the dynamics of adoption of PAT by farmers differs by regions. Although there is large number of related researches, there are considerable gaps in the literature: studies on adoption of PAT can be systematically reviewed and integrated in a conceptual model of technology adoption by rural producers, which still lacking in the literature. Thus, the main objective of this paper is to perform a systematic literature review of studies on determinants of adoption of PAT and to build a conceptual framework that consolidates the determinants of adoption of PAT by farmers. We used the method of Knowler and Bradshaw (2007) to analyze 36 empirical studies. The results show that the adoption drivers of major influence are related to socio-economic, agro-ecological, institutional, technological and behavioral factors, in addition to the sources of information and perception of the farmer. We consolidated these drivers in an integrated conceptual model of adoption of PAT by farmers. This model might be tested by future researches, as well as research propositions that we suggest in this work.
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