Farmers’ intended and actual adoption of soil and water conservation practices

Bagheri, Asghar; Teymouri, Ali

doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107244

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“…However, adopting either one or two practices significantly increases farm income compared to not adopting any practice. These results corroborate previous studies that find that adopting multiple technologies is much more beneficial as there are synergies gained from different technologies ( Bagheri and Teymouri, 2022 ; Lemaire et al., 2014 ; Wainaina et al., 2017 ). Further, by adopting multiple technologies, households are able to insure their welfare against different types of risk ( Khoza et al., 2020 ).…”

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confidence: 91%

Striving to be resilient: the role of crop-poultry integrated system as a climate change adaptation strategy in semiarid eastern Kenya

Mulungu¹,

Kangogo²

2022

Heliyon

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confidence: 91%

Striving to be resilient: the role of crop-poultry integrated system as a climate change adaptation strategy in semiarid eastern Kenya

Mulungu¹,

Kangogo²

2022

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“…In addition, farmers' attitude toward drought adaptation strategies reinforces their intention to apply them. This has been established in many studies (Richter and Klöckner, 2017;Mahdavi, 2021;Bagheri and Teymouri, 2022;Karimi and Ataei, 2022;Sereenonchai and Arunrat, 2022).…”

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Mechanisms to change farmers' drought adaptation behaviors in Sistan and Baluchistan Province, Iran

Khoshnodifar¹,

Karimi

Ataei

2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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IntroductionFrequent droughts in Iran have imposed economic and social losses on farmers. To mitigate drought implications, farmers' behaviors should be shifted towards drought adaptation. This research mainly aimed to study mechanisms for changing farmers' drought adaptation behaviors in Sistan and Baluchistan Province.MethodsThe research was conducted among farmers in this province (N = 950). The sample whose size was estimated at 275 farmers by Krejcie and Morgan's table was taken by the stratified random sampling technique. The research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire. Data were analyzed by SPSS23 and AMOS23 software. The comprehensive action determination model was validated by confirmatory factor analysis. Furthermore, structural equation modeling was used to explore the components influencing farmers' drought adaptation behaviors.Results and discussionAccording to the results, personal norms, attitudes, objective barriers, and subjective barriers had positive and significant effects on the farmers' intention to apply drought adaptation strategies. As well, the farmers' adaptation behaviors were influenced by their behavioral intentions, objective barriers, and subjective barriers. It can be concluded that changing the mechanism of farmers' behaviors toward drought adaptation is shaped by the processes included in the comprehensive action determination model in which norms, habits, situational influences, and intentional processes are involved.

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“…Furthermore, farmers' water conservation attitude impacts their intention to adopt water conservation strategies. Many studies 53,74,82,84 have proven that attitude towards a certain behaviour is the individual's overall assessment of the behaviour and can improve people's intention to performing the behaviour.…”

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Socio-cognitive analysis of farmers’ water conservation behaviour: The case of the Kavar plain, Iran

2022

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Agricultural activities have a lot of effects on the environment so that water conservation measures help produce crops and consume water resources sustainably. The present research mainly aimed to explore farmers’ water conservation behaviour using the comprehensive action determination model (CADM). The research was conducted on the farmers in the Kavar plain in Fars province, Iran (N = 4000). The sample including 351 farmers was taken by the stratified random sampling technique. The measurement instrument was a questionnaire whose face and content validity was confirmed by a panel of experts. To check its reliability, a pilot study was conducted to calculate Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability (CR). The results showed that the indicators used to measure the research variables properly fitted the factor structure and the theoretical framework of the study. Based on the results, social norms (β = 0.26), personal norms (β = 0.22), attitude (β = 0.33), objective constraints (β = 0.38), and subjective constraints (β = 0.29) affect farmers’ water conservation intention positively and significantly. Also, farmers’ behaviour is influenced by their intention (β = 0.6), as well as their subjective (β = 0.73) and objective constraints (β = 0.58). It can be concluded that farmers’ water conservation behavior is shaped by a process that involves their normative process, habitual process, situation, and attitudes.

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Farmers’ intended and actual adoption of soil and water conservation practices

Cited by 17 publications

References 62 publications

Striving to be resilient: the role of crop-poultry integrated system as a climate change adaptation strategy in semiarid eastern Kenya

Striving to be resilient: the role of crop-poultry integrated system as a climate change adaptation strategy in semiarid eastern Kenya

Mechanisms to change farmers' drought adaptation behaviors in Sistan and Baluchistan Province, Iran

Socio-cognitive analysis of farmers’ water conservation behaviour: The case of the Kavar plain, Iran

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