Farming and Other Stakeholders in a Tropical Highland: Towards Less Environmentaly Damaging and More Sustainable Practices

Barrow, Chris; Chan, Ngai Weng; Masron, Tarmiji

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“…Organic agriculture is being promoted in Malaysia as a strategy to raise small-scale producers' income, protect the environment, and reduce food imports. However, from almost 2000 small-scale producers in Cameron Highlands who mainly work on farms of less than 2 ha only 13 adopted the program (Barrow, 2010). These 13 organic farmers own the land.…”

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“…Malaysian farmers' challenges towards adoption of the programme may not be entirely clear for the policy makers. To our knowledge, few researchers have focused their study on unsustainable agriculture and the environmental damage caused by conventional farmers in Malaysia (Barrow, Chan, & Masron, 2010;Barrow, Clifton, Chan, & Tan, 2005;Barrow et al, 2009). In fact, little is known about organic farmers that adopted such practices in Malaysia.…”

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Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture in Malaysia: Organic Farmers' Challenges towards Adoption

Tiraieyari¹,

Hamzah²,

Samah³

2014

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Agriculture in Malaysia is characterised by high levels of fertiliser and manure applications and consequently environmental pollution. Sustainable agriculture and organic farming are being promoted by the government as a way of eliminating unsustainable agriculture. Despite the benefits that organic farming brings to farmers and environments, its adoption rate is still low among Malaysian farmers. A study of organic farmers in the Cameron Highlands was conducted to reveal the challenges that have been occurred with regard to adoption of the practice. The results indicate that organic farmers face challenges with regard to land tenure, certification processes, hiring foreign workers, marketing, training and extension services and governmental support. Issues and challenges were discussed. The paper concludes with some recommendations.

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Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture in Malaysia: Organic Farmers' Challenges towards Adoption

Tiraieyari¹,

Hamzah²,

Samah³

2014

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“…Therefore, taking into account the prevailing situation of Bangladesh, soil-quality status is a unique indicator for sustainability and for that soil fertility as well as nutrient management also need to be considered. Also, injudicious use of agricultural inputs, pests and diseases are grave threats to production (Barrow et al 2010). Several studies substantiated that integrated management is more sustainable than other crop management systems.…”

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An assessment of agricultural sustainability indicators in Bangladesh: review and synthesis

Roy

Chan

2011

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The term 'indicator' is often vague and heterogeneous, and its dynamic characteristics make it highly variable over time and space. Based on reviews and synthesis, this study visualizes phenomena and highlights the trend of indicator selection criteria, development methods, validation evaluation strategies for improvement. In contextualization of the intensification of agriculture and climate change, we proposed a set of indicators for assessing agricultural sustainability in Bangladesh based on theoretically proposed and practically applied indicators by researchers. Also, this article raises several issues of indicator system development and presents a summary after due consideration. Finally, we underline multi-stakeholders' participation in agricultural sustainability assessment.

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“…Ethnicity influenced herder decisions through its effect on belief, traditions and knowledge (Elkind 1993), and some researchers have revealed that ethnic background significantly influenced herder decision of technology adoption (Núñez and McCann 2008;Barrow et al 2010;Tey et al 2014). We hypothesised that herder ethnicity had a significant impact on herder's adoption behaviour.…”

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Factors affecting herder adoption of winter lambing practices in the desert steppe region of Inner Mongolia, China

Yin

Wang

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Rangel. J.

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Abstract. Although winter lambing practices (WL) have been shown to be a 'win-win' strategy for reducing the degradation of grasslands and improving herder livelihood in the pastoral regions of China, the adoption rate is still low. A survey was conducted to explore herders' opinions of WL and other factors which influenced the adoption in the desert steppe region of Inner Mongolia, China. Herders who have spring lambing practices generally hold unfavourable opinions about WL. Most have only heard about WL but did not understand the detailed information of implementation or how it increases income. Herder ethnical background, distance to market and neighbours' choices significantly affected the adoption rate. Han herders were more likely to adopt WL than Mongolian herders. Proximity to market led herders to be more market-focused and to adopt WL. Herders were more inclined to make the same choices as their neighbours. The results showed that herders were prepared to change and were carefully assessing the gains and losses of adopting WL. Results had implications for improving the adoption rate for WL and other livestock management practices in China.

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Farming and Other Stakeholders in a Tropical Highland: Towards Less Environmentaly Damaging and More Sustainable Practices

Cited by 13 publications

References 12 publications

Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture in Malaysia: Organic Farmers' Challenges towards Adoption

Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture in Malaysia: Organic Farmers' Challenges towards Adoption

An assessment of agricultural sustainability indicators in Bangladesh: review and synthesis

Factors affecting herder adoption of winter lambing practices in the desert steppe region of Inner Mongolia, China

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