Factors influencing farmers’ management behaviors toward coping with drought: evidence from Iran

Savari, Moslem; Damaneh, Hamed Eskandari; Damaneh, Hadi Eskandari

doi:10.1080/09640568.2020.1855128

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“…SN is “superior” to PN because SN expresses society's view of a behavior and determines whether the behavior is perceived as positive or negative. In other words, the broader social and behavioral norms of society will tend to guide an individual to recognize whether a behavior is appropriate or not 37 , 64 , 86 , 87 . There exist special standards in society that are exerted through social pressures and ingrained in individuals as PN 88 .…”

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Integrating the norm activation model and theory of planned behaviour to investigate farmer pro-environmental behavioural intention

Savari¹,

Damaneh²,

Damaneh³

et al. 2023

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Sustainable agriculture requires cooperative and coordinated action across multiple sectors and policy domains. However, farmer-stakeholder behaviors and action remain pivotal to sustainable food system management in many rural development contexts. We assess farmer pro-environmental behavioral intention through the development and application of a novel integrated approach combining two dominant psychological theories of behavior change: the Norm Activation Model (NAM) and Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). We apply this framework to targeted research with potato growers of Kerman Province in southeastern Iran, using survey data (sample n = 381) analyzed through structural equation modeling (SEM). The integrated NAM-TPB model provides insight into both pro-social and self-interested motivations for farmer pro-environmental behavioral intention, with the model explaining 77% of total variance. We found that three variables, Awareness of Consequence (AC), Perceived Behavioral Control (PBC), and Subjective Norms (SN) were the strongest indicators of pro-environmental behavioral intention. We recommend therefore that agricultural extension and state-led farmer education should first emphasize awareness-raising of negative environmental impacts of current farming practices within training programs, and second, improve social learning amongst farmer communities through sustained farmer community engagement, thus “stabilizing” a social norm of environmental protection amongst peer networks of agricultural workers.

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Integrating the norm activation model and theory of planned behaviour to investigate farmer pro-environmental behavioural intention

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Damaneh²,

Damaneh³

et al. 2023

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“…Various techniques of dealing with such issues have been reported. Survey methodology, for example, is useful for gathering first-hand information on how the drought has affected crop production and how farmers have reacted to drought (Campbell et al, 2011;Savari et al, 2021). In this paper, I, therefore, concentrate on agricultural drought impacts on food production in Free State Province South Africa.…”

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Agricultural Drought and Its Potential Impacts: Enabling Decision-Support for Food Security in Vulnerable Regions

Orimoloye

2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Increasing demand for food and environmental stressors are some of the most challenging problems that human societies face today and these have encouraged new studies to examine drought impacts on food production. Seeking to discuss these important issues in the South African context, this study analyzed the impacts of drought on food security in one of the country's largest commercial agricultural land (Free State Province). Earth observation and crop data were acquired from Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) and GrainSA databases, respectively for years 2011/2012–2020/2021 over Free State Province. Two crops namely, maize and sorghum were obtained from the database and analyzed accordingly to quantify drought impacts on the two crops. The result reveals that the years 2015 and 2018 were affected by extreme drought events (<10%) where the majority of the study area was impacted. Years 2011, 2016, 2018, and 2019 were severely affected by drought (>30%) and impacted the agricultural sector in the study area. Findings further revealed that maize production observed the lowest recorded in the year 2014 and 2015 with about 223,600 and 119,050 tons, respectively. More so, results further showed that sorghum production recorded the lowest production in years 2019, 2016, and 2015 with about 23,600, 24,640, and 24,150 tons, in that order during the period of study. The results confirm the impacts of drought on maize and sorghum productions in the year 2015 and other years that recorded the lowest productions during drought years. This development might have impacted food security in the study area, and this outcome will enable decision-making bodies on food security to enhance improved strategy in vulnerable areas.

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“…If the current rate of water use is not diminished, economic development might be hampered, reducing food security while increasing poverty, hunger, conflicts, mass immigration, and the possibility of war [2][3][4][5]. Combined with predictions about population growth, urbanization, industrialization, and climate change, this situation could be much worse in the near future [6][7][8][9]. Policymakers, researchers, NGOs, and farmers are increasingly pursing various innovative technical, institutional, and policy interventions that will enable more efficient, equitable, and sustainable utilization of scarce water resources [6,10,11].…”

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Why Have Economic Incentives Failed to Convince Farmers to Adopt Drip Irrigation in Southwestern Iran?

Yazdanpanah¹,

Klein

Zobeidi

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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Sustainable water usage is an important global concern and an urgent priority, especially in dryland regions such as Iran. The Iranian government is actively addressing the challenge of water scarcity by encouraging farmers to adopt new water application technology. Its main element to decrease water consumption is to encourage new irrigation systems, in particular drip irrigation. However, despite the benefits of drip irrigation technologies and the availability of generous government subsidies, adoption rates of the improved irrigation technology remain critically low among Iranian farmers. Therefore, this study seeks to determine what is limiting the uptake of improved irrigation technology in Iran. While it is well known that acceptance of new technology ultimately depends on multiple and interrelated factors, we examine those factors affecting farmers’ adoption from three theoretical perspectives in the adoption literature: farmers’ socio-economic characteristics, social capital, and technology characteristics. A cross-sectional survey was undertaken in Behbahan district in Khuzestan province in southwest Iran. The sample comprises 174 farmers who adopted drip irrigation in that region and 100 non-adopters who were located in the same region. Discriminant analysis reveals that a socio-economic approach is the strongest model to predict adoption of drip irrigation technology in the study area, followed by models of technical characteristics, and social capital. These results can help agricultural extension agents and policy-makers design appropriate and effective strategies that facilitate the adoption of drip irrigation at an increasing rate.

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Factors influencing farmers’ management behaviors toward coping with drought: evidence from Iran

Cited by 28 publications

References 103 publications

Integrating the norm activation model and theory of planned behaviour to investigate farmer pro-environmental behavioural intention

Integrating the norm activation model and theory of planned behaviour to investigate farmer pro-environmental behavioural intention

Agricultural Drought and Its Potential Impacts: Enabling Decision-Support for Food Security in Vulnerable Regions

Why Have Economic Incentives Failed to Convince Farmers to Adopt Drip Irrigation in Southwestern Iran?

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