Farm size and participation in agri-environmental measures: Farm-level evidence from Slovenia

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Grower Analysis of Organic Matter Amendments in California Orchards

“…These results indicate that greater OMA adoption occurred on smaller farms. Other studies describe a similar trend whereby the use of integrated and organic soil management practices was greater on smaller farms (Rangarajan et al, 2002; Unay Gailhard and Bojnec, 2015; Williams, 1999). While more studies report a positive adoption of soil management practices such as conservation tillage with farm size where specialized equipment is scalable (Prokopy et al, 2008), we presume obtaining OMA of sufficient quantity and quality makes OMA adoption more amendable to smaller farms.…”

Tracing Uganda’s global primary organic pineapple value chain

“…The higher participation of the young farmers could be because the organic enterprise is relatively new and more innovative; while the less participation of older farmers could be because of its high labour requirements. A number of studies have shown that young farmers significantly adopt organic enterprises more than older farmers (Vanslembrouck et al, 2002;Gailhard and Bojnec, 2015;Nandi et al, 2015). These studies have also consistently shown innovation and profits as the main drivers of organic adoption among young people.…”

“…Further analysis showed that 45% of the farmers had grown organic pineapples for less than 5 years, while 24% in 6 -10 years, and 31% between 11-20 years. With respect to other countries, organic fruit and vegetable production is more recent in India, where the organic enterprises averagely started in 2008 (Nandi et al, 2015); while in Central Germany, organic farming was practiced since 1993 (Gailhard and Bojnec, 2015). Farmers who had more land under organic pineapples managed the enterprises for more years than their counterparts with less land.…”

Jatropha Suppliers as Contributors to the Sustainability of the Production of Bioelectricity in Ecuador

“…Most of these studies have used discrete response models such as logit binary models, as this modeling framework allows for estimates to be made of the probability of an individual deciding between one alternative and another [14]. In particular, the binary logit model is widely used to analyze the decision of farmers to participate in environmental programs [15,16], as well as to adopt technology packages [17][18][19][20]. However, the application of such models to study the long term sustainability or the abandonment of a project has received less attention.…”

“…Results of such studies indicate that the decision to adopt or participate is often related to the participants' characteristics [15,19,21], social capital [16,20,22,24,25] production characteristics [16,18,20,21,24,25], and the characteristics of the project [20,26]. Consequently, in this project, the jatropha suppliers' decision to participate was analyzed by considering explanatory variables related to the suppliers' characteristics, social capital, production characteristics and perceptions on the characteristics of the project.…”