Beyond individuals: Toward a “distributed” approach to farmer decision‐making behavior

Rose, David Christian; Keating, Connor Tom; Vrain, Emilie; Morris, Carol

doi:10.1002/fes3.155

Cited by 29 publications

(53 citation statements)

References 16 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…However, once funding ends, interventions, even if promising, are often lost. Outlining with our community partners the full plan for research, dissemination, and community ownership at the onset of the project provided a clear and firm foundation for trust, sustainability, and growth (Rose et al, 2018). The resultant effects in health and work behavior changes, as well as the high participation rate, can be viewed as a team success.…”

Section: > > Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changing Health Practices Through Research to Practice Collaboration: The Farm Dinner Theater Experience

Reed

McCallum

Claunch

2021

Health Promotion Practice

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Production agriculture ranks as one of the most hazardous occupations in the United States, with older producers suffering 3.5 times the fatalities compared with their younger counterparts. Previous interventions have not significantly improved the health or work behaviors of farmers. Through careful collaboration among academics and Cooperative Extension agents, we developed, tested, and expanded a unique educational experience, Farm Dinner Theater (FDT), for farmers aged 45 years and more and their families across three states ( n = 8 communities, 573 participants). More than 50% of the participants made health or safety changes following the theater. Communities requested more theater events, noting the realism and applicability of the content and the engaging atmosphere for discussion. Participants remarked that the theater should be used across all age-groups. The FDT project created a community of “champions” that synergized the initial research project and fostered expansion and sustainability of the intervention. Process evaluation guided refinement of the theater intervention and built trust, respect, and further cooperative work among all collaborators. Members of the FDT partnership have received national recognition and funding to upscale the concept. The number of FDTs has expanded under local leadership. A toolkit that resulted from the project is available to the public and is constantly updated as more adopters contribute insight and scripts. This article describes the collaborative theater concept and demonstrates how sustained translation from research to practice can be accomplished through continued community engagement, collaboration, and outreach.

show abstract

Section: > > Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changing Health Practices Through Research to Practice Collaboration: The Farm Dinner Theater Experience

Reed

McCallum

Claunch

2021

Health Promotion Practice

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The ecosystem's health may be affected by many factors other than income, such as climate change and government investments. Nonetheless, Rose, Keating, Vrain, and Morris (2018) found a close relationship between willingness to protect the environment and the income of residents of ecological restoration areas. Because low income and a degraded ecological environment often coexist, this suggests that residents of the degraded area will be less willing to increase their suffering to achieve ecological restoration, and their willingness may remain low even after their income increases.…”

Section: Mechanisms Behind the Poverty Trapmentioning

confidence: 93%

Win–win path for ecological restoration

Cao

Xia

et al. 2020

Land Degrad Dev

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Ecosystem degradation is a major cause of poverty, and poverty further aggravates ecosystem degradation through a feedback known as the 'poverty trap' that can prevent sustainable socioeconomic development in ecologically fragile areas. However, most ecological restoration programmes have failed to improve the lives of residents of the targeted areas because planners failed to understand the driving forces behind the poverty trap. Finding the threshold conditions for the poverty trap, which represent the conditions when the current state of a system changes to a new and inferior state, can help managers to avoid triggering the poverty trap in ecologically fragile areas. To avoid crossing the threshold, it's necessary to understand the driving mechanisms responsible for the poverty trap so that managers can break the vicious cycle that undermines the effectiveness of ecological restoration. China's ecological restoration has shown that integrating ecological restoration with measures that provide a sustainable livelihood for residents of programme areas can achieve the win-win goal of ecological restoration and poverty alleviation. We found preliminary evidence that there is an income threshold for the poverty trap, and that raising incomes above this level may help residents of restoration areas escape the trap. The examples described in this paper provide valuable guidance for other countries that must achieve similar goals.

show abstract

“…The degree to which the farmers perceived the disease to be a priority, and for the proposed control strategies to be considered feasible, were both important. Being able to identify and appreciate reasons for farmer held perceptions and the effect this might have on their decision making in relation to the type of calf housing used could therefore be important for the improvement of calf health (Rose et al, 2018).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A survey of calf management practices and farmer perceptions of calf housing in UK dairy herds

Mahendran

Wathes

Booth

et al. 2022

Journal of Dairy Science

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Adoption of optimal management techniques for rearing dairy calves has significant effects on their health, welfare, and productivity. Despite much published literature on best practice, calf morbidity and mortality rates remain high. This survey aimed to establish current calf management practices in the United Kingdom, along with farmer perceptions surrounding different housing types. A survey containing 48 questions was distributed online to UK farmers via social media, online forums, and a convenience sample of veterinary practices and was completed by 216 participants. A descriptive analysis with frequency distributions was calculated, with chi-squared tests, linear regression and multinomial regression performed to assess associations between variables. There was a low level of regular veterinary involvement in day-to-day health decision making for calves (3/216, 1.4%), highlighting the need for appropriate staff training and standard operating procedures to ensure prudent antimicrobial usage. Restricted calf milk feeding remains highly prevalent in the United Kingdom, with most calves fed milk replacer (114/216, 52.8%), twice daily (189/216, 87.5%), initially given milk at 4 L/d (66/216, 30.6%) or 6 L/d (47/216, 21.8%). There was, however, a small number of farmers initially feeding only 2 to 3 L/d (28/216, 13.0%). Euthanasia of bull calves (5/216, 2.3%) and feeding antimicrobial waste milk to calves (8/216, 3.7%) both occurred on some farms. With regard to housing, use of individual calf pens has reduced from around 60% in 2010 to 38.4% in this study (83/216), with this reduction being partly driven by the policy of UK milk buyers. Farmer perceptions indicated that individual housing was thought to help to improve calf health and feed monitoring of calves, suggesting that successful use of group housing requires a higher level of stockmanship. The majority of farmers did not provide fresh bedding to calves on a daily basis (141/216, 65.3%), and relatively few disinfected both the calf housing (38.0%) and ground (47.7%) between calves, suggesting that hygiene practices may require additional attention in farm management protocols.

show abstract

Beyond individuals: Toward a “distributed” approach to farmer decision‐making behavior

Cited by 29 publications

References 16 publications

Changing Health Practices Through Research to Practice Collaboration: The Farm Dinner Theater Experience

Changing Health Practices Through Research to Practice Collaboration: The Farm Dinner Theater Experience

Win–win path for ecological restoration

A survey of calf management practices and farmer perceptions of calf housing in UK dairy herds

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About