Farmer’s motivation to adopt sustainable agricultural practices

Menozzi, Davide; Fioravanzi, Martina; Donati, Michèle

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“…Recent studies have integrated a more social science-informed perspective in order to explain farmers' decisions to adopt pro-environmental practices. For example, studies have shown that farmers' internal attitudes are a crucial determinant of the adoption of practices such as water conservation (Yazdanpanah et al, 2014), maintenance of ecological focus areas (Menozzi et al, 2015), manure separation technology (Gebrezgabher et al, 2015), and use of minimum tillage and row planting (Zeweld et al, 2017). This paper utilizes the framework of the VBN theory which is shown to be relevant for domains ranging from the acceptability of energy policies (Steg et al, 2005) and recycling behaviour (Aguilar et al, 2013) to willingness to pay for park conservation (López-Mosquera and Sánchez, 2012).…”

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Do pro-environmental values, beliefs and norms drive farmers' interest in novel practices fostering the Bioeconomy?

Wensing

Carraresi

Bröring

2019

Journal of Environmental Management

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Do pro-environmental values, beliefs and norms drive farmers' interest in novel practices fostering the Bioeconomy?

Wensing

Carraresi

Bröring

2019

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…Heterogeneous membership may have a downwards influence on the cooperative's efficiency. Furthermore, the organisational structures present in supply chains may have significant impacts on the adoption of environmental innovations [20] since, for instance, producer organisations (POs) and the food industry might provide technical support and enhance farmers' skills [21]. Other studies find that agricultural cooperatives can improve welfare when they help their members adopt innovations [22,23].…”

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Adopting Environmentally Friendly Farming Practices and the Role of Quality Labels and Producer Organisations: A Qualitative Analysis Based on Two European Case Studies

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Various drivers behind the adoption of environmentally friendly practices have been investigated at the farm level in the literature, e.g., farmers’ motivations and attitudes, farms’ structure, and management or policies. Yet, the way in which quality labels and producer organisations influence the adoption of environmentally friendly practices by farmers is still under-researched. We contribute to this topic and present the results of qualitative interviews with producer organisations, conducted in 2019 in two contrasting case studies: the pig sector in Brittany (western France), and the olive oil sector in Crete (Greece). Our study shows that economic actors of food supply chains in these two case studies use European quality labels, a couple of national schemes, and a proliferation of private quality labels (in Brittany’s pig sector). Our interviews reveal that many quality labels, for which agricultural farming systems must comply with a set of rules, are not specifically aimed at improving environmental impacts. In the Cretan olive oil sector, we observe several European public labels. In the French pig sector, many quality labels do not include requirements for practices aiming at improving the environment, but instead focus on other practices that matter for society, namely improving animal welfare. However, advisory services provided by the producer organisations can play a key role in the adoption of environmentally friendly practices. They include research programmes and agronomic events. In Crete, producer organisations are able to offer technical assistance thanks to European support programmes.

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“…In the production stage , the agricultural data concerning the life cycle inventory (fertilizers, pesticides, water, energy, fuel, and operations in the field) are not different compared to conventional apple juice production, because it is assumed that the same apples are being processed. The underlying assumption is that most farmers do not change their agricultural practices in the short-term, even if they decide to process their apples with FOX technology and their production decisions are based more on other framework conditions [ 93 ]. Therefore, we supposed that agricultural production will be the same for FOX and conventional apple juice.…”

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Setting life cycle assessment (LCA) in a future-oriented context: the combination of qualitative scenarios and LCA in the agri-food sector

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By combining qualitative scenarios and life cycle assessment (LCA), we place the latter in a larger context. This study outlines the importance of the integration of future perspectives into LCA, and also the significance of taking changes in the environment of technology into account, rather than just technological development itself. Accordingly, we focused on adapting the background system of an attributional LCA in the agri-food sector. The proposed technology was assumed not have evolved in the considered time horizon. In this context, the objectives of this paper were twofold: (i) to methodologically prove the applicability of integrating qualitative scenarios into LCA and (ii) to focus on changes in the background system, which is sometimes overlooked in the context of future-oriented LCA. This allowed to evaluate the future potential of different technologies, assessing their environmental impact under uncertain future developments. Methodologically, the qualitative information from scenarios was transformed into quantitative data, which was successively fed into the life cycle inventory (LCI) of the LCA approach. This point of integration into the second phase of LCA translates into future changes in the entire environment in which a technology is used. This means that qualitatively described scenario narratives need to be converted into value estimates in order to be incorporated into the LCA model. A key conclusion is that changes in the background of an LCA—the changing framework expressed through the inventory database—can be very important for the environmental impact of emerging technologies. This approach was applied to a food processing technology to produce apple juice. The proposed methodology enables technology developers to make their products future-proof and robust against socioeconomic development. In addition, the market perspective, if spelled out in the scenarios, can be integrated, leading to a more holistic picture of LCA with its environmental focus, while simultaneously empowering actors to make the right strategic decisions today, especially when considering the long investment cycles in the agri-food sector.

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Farmer’s motivation to adopt sustainable agricultural practices

Cited by 24 publications

References 44 publications

Do pro-environmental values, beliefs and norms drive farmers' interest in novel practices fostering the Bioeconomy?

Do pro-environmental values, beliefs and norms drive farmers' interest in novel practices fostering the Bioeconomy?

Adopting Environmentally Friendly Farming Practices and the Role of Quality Labels and Producer Organisations: A Qualitative Analysis Based on Two European Case Studies

Setting life cycle assessment (LCA) in a future-oriented context: the combination of qualitative scenarios and LCA in the agri-food sector

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