Faith in international agricultural development: Conservation Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa

Rademaker, Corné J.; Jochemsen, Henk

doi:10.1007/s10460-019-09912-7

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“…Similarly, the strong beliefs farmers hold about the land being divine and the ultimate owner can have implications for their self-improvement, agricultural development and adoption of innovative technologies. Grewal et al (2021) showed that strong beliefs in God could limit farmers' self-improvement, while Rademaker and Jochemsen (2019) identified religious beliefs as an impediment to agricultural development. The findings of this study align with these perspectives, highlighting that farmers' perceived belief on Land as God can serve as a barrier to the adoption of innovative agricultural technology.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Mormon farmers believe that they only have temporary land ownership, whereas the divine force is considered the true, permanent and ultimate owner (Kay and Brown, 1985). Strong beliefs in God limit farmers' self-improvement (Grewal et al, 2021), an impediment to carrying out agricultural development (Rademaker and Jochemsen, 2019) and a barrier to the adoption of innovative agricultural technology (Spaling and Kooy, 2019;Tanko, 2020). Keeping the above as evidence, the authors framed the following hypotheses:…”

Section: Attitude To Use (Au) and Behavioural Intention (Bi)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Does the belief of farmers on land as God influence the adoption of smart farming technologies?

Vasan¹,

Yoganandan²

2023

BIJ

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PurposeArtificial Intelligence-based smart farming technologies have brought impressive changes in farming. This paper aims at exploring the farmers’ intention to adopt smart farming technologies (SFT). Also, the authors intend to know how far the belief of farmers on land as God influences their decision to adopt SFT.Design/methodology/approachThe data were gathered from 500 farmers chosen purposively. A well-crafted survey instrument was employed to amass data from farmers for measuring their adoption of SFT. As the authors sought to measure the farmers’ behavioural intention (BI) towards the adoption of SFT, the technology acceptance model developed by Davis (1989) came in handy, including perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PEU) and BI. The authors have adopted this model as it was considered a superior model. The items on the attitude of confidence (AC) were adapted from Adrian et al. (2005). Survey instruments of Thompson and Higgins (1991) and Compeau and Higgins (1995) were also referred to finalize the statements relating to attitude towards use. Moreover, the authors developed items relating to the perceived belief of land as God based on frequent interaction with the farmers.FindingsThe study results divulged that attitude to use (AU) is directly influenced by the rural farmers’ PU, PEU and AC. Similarly, this investigation has observed behaviour intention directly influenced by the AU of farmers. It is observed that AU was the most influential variable, which ultimately influenced the BI to use SFT.Research limitations/implicationsThis study has an important limitation in the form of representing only the culture, belief and value system of farmers in India.Practical implicationsThe outcome of this study will facilitate the policymakers to draw suitable policy measures keeping the sensitivities of the farmers in mind in their technology adoption drive. The agricultural officers can encourage farmers to take logical decisions by supplying adequate information in a time-bound manner. Marketers can make suitable adjustments in their sales and promotion activities that focus on farmers.Social implicationsThe belief of farmers on land as God has a small yet unmissable influence on farmers’ AU and BI in their technology adoption decision. Based on the above evidence, the authors recommend that marketers fine-tune their product design, product packaging and promotional activities keeping the belief and sensitivities of farmers at the core of their marketing campaign.Originality/valueThis article provides original insights by demonstrating the positive influence of PU, PEU and AC on technology adoption by farmers. This research is the first of a kind linking the belief of farmers on land as God with smart farming technology adoption in farming.

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Does the belief of farmers on land as God influence the adoption of smart farming technologies?

Vasan¹,

Yoganandan²

2023

BIJ

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“…The sketch just given broadly follows accounts in the NPA literature of farming as a normative practice (Rademaker et al, 2017;Rademaker and Jochemsen, 2019). The norm of technical proficiency serves as the "foundational" norm of the practice and the norm of efficient productivity serves as the "qualifying" norm.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, we are concerned here with models or systems for farming: ideals stated in general terms that may or may not acknowledge some regulative direction. Of course, agricultural models are not usually explicit concerning religious or ideological convictions (but see Rademaker and Jochemsen, 2019), and there is usually much common ground across communities and societies in so fundamental a practice as farming. Nevertheless, the normativity of sustainable agriculture cannot be properly addressed without explicitly going beyond economic norms to consider ultimate visions.…”

Section: Agriculture As a Normative Practicementioning

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What is enlightened agriculture? A multi-normative approach to the nature and values of food production systems

Gunton¹

2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The sustainable development of farming is an agenda with strong normative undertones, yet beyond the call to combine enhanced agricultural output with better environmental outcomes, this normativity is rarely unpacked or analysed with respect to different worldviews and value systems. The normative practices approach is a values-explicit framework for analysing the normativity of social practices; here it is applied to agriculture to provide a critique of sustainability. This helps to clarify the nature of farming and the breadth of sometimes incommensurable visions for its sustainable intensification. It also leads to a values-explicit concept of “enlightened agriculture”, defined as models for agricultural systems that explicitly realise aesthetic, jural and moral benefits, possibly at some cost to economic productivity. While any implementation of this qualitative definition will be worldview-dependent, it appears that land-sparing approaches and the promotion of biodiversity per se are unlikely to qualify as enlightened farming, but farming with concern for the wellbeing of humans and non-humans probably does. The recognition that normative worldviews direct social practices implies that there will be profound diversity among visions of good farming, which technical and political proposals ought to account for. In the face of accelerating global change, this diversity may provide both resilience and fertile grounds for new context-sensitive and community-led initiatives.

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“…Promises of significant developments linked to land are usually presented in such cases. In parts of SSA, faith-based organizations have been considered instrumental in land acquisition and development (Rademaker & Jochemsen, 2019). Contrary to the case in the greater south region of Cameroon, studies in Southern Africa report that missionaries were linked to frontier wars and armed conflicts over land and other natural resources (Burchardt & Swidler, 2020;Villa-Vicencio, 1995).…”

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Power and conviction dynamics on land and linked natural resources: explorative insights from the greater south region of Cameroon

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Communities in several parts of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) depend on natural resources for their sustenance. While growing pressure on such resources has been accused of framing conflicts, the power and convictions dimension of such conflicts remains relatively less explored. Taking the case of Cameroon, this paper undertakes an explorative analysis of power and convictions around land and linked natural resources. Specifically, the paper maps harmful convictions and their role in steering unequal access to land and linked natural resources; explores power manifestations among different categories of resource use actors; and discusses the role of different typologies of actors in shaping harmful convictions linked to land and other natural resources. Qualitative data derived from four communities in the greater south region informed this study: focus group discussions (14), key informants, and expert interviews (25) were employed. Using the actor-centred power analytical lens, the analysis entailed the use of directed content analysis, thematic analysis and narratives. The results indicate the following: Firstly, while ethnic/region-based and elitism-based harmful convictions significantly drive land resource access, gender-based and religious-based convictions are less recurrent. Secondly, while elitism-based actors exercise power through coercion, religious and political actors employ (dis)incentives and dominant information, respectively, in their quest for forestland. Thirdly, elitism-based and ethnic/region-based actors are at the centre of harmful convictions around land and linked natural resources. The results inform the actor-centred power concept, with emphasis on convictions around land and linked natural resources. Future studies should explore the conflict implications of these harmful convictions.

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Faith in international agricultural development: Conservation Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 5 publications

References 39 publications

Does the belief of farmers on land as God influence the adoption of smart farming technologies?

Does the belief of farmers on land as God influence the adoption of smart farming technologies?

What is enlightened agriculture? A multi-normative approach to the nature and values of food production systems

Power and conviction dynamics on land and linked natural resources: explorative insights from the greater south region of Cameroon

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