Identifying the factors impacting on farmers’ intention to adopt animal friendly practices

Borges, João Augusto Rossi; Domingues, Carla Heloísa de Faria; Caldara, Fabiana Ribeiro; Rosa, Nadir Paula da; Senger, Igor; Guidolin, Diego

doi:10.1016/j.prevetmed.2019.104718

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“…Borges et al [50] surveyed 185 pig farmers to identify the beliefs underlying their intention to adopt environmental enrichment on their farms. They used Partial-Least-Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) to identify the impact of attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ajzen [28,29] defined attitudes as being mediated through intention and as acting together with other explanatory factors, such as perceived control and subjective norm. They are designed to predict and explain human behavior in specific contexts (i.e., specific behaviors rather than aggregate behavior) [8,42,[49][50][51][52][53][54][55].…”

Section: Theory Of Planned Behavior (Tpb) and Theory Of Reasoned Actimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Bock et al [48] provided a deeper understanding of the factors that influence HAR and showed that Brazilian farmers in all sectors (beef, dairy, pig, and poultry) felt responsible for taking good care of their animals and they perceived good farming as a key element of their job satisfaction. Borges et al [50] identified the factors impacting Brazilian pig farmers to adopt FAW practices and noticed that behavioral belief was to "decrease animals' stress".…”

Section: Non-use Valuementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Farmers who were more extroverted, conscientious and considered themselves intellectual were also more empathetic and had an indirect positive impact on FAW [47]. Borges et al [50] surveyed 185 pig farmers to identify the beliefs underlying their intention to adopt environmental enrichment. They reported that the intention was mainly determined by their positive perceptions about their own self-identity [81].…”

Section: Personalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Factors that Influence Farmers’ Views on Farm Animal Welfare: A Semi-Systematic Review and Thematic Analysis

Balzani

Hanlon

2020

Animals

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Farm animal welfare (FAW) is a growing societal concern, reflected by over 30 years of research to inform policy and practice. Despite the wealth of evidence to improve FAW, implementation of good practice continues to be an issue. The role of the stakeholder, particularly farmers, is pivotal to FAW improvement. This semi-systematic review synthesizes the evidence published in the last 30 years, worldwide, to address two main questions “what do farmers think (farmer’s general view) about farm animal welfare?” and “what are the factors that influence their thinking?”. A thematic analysis was conducted to identify factors that influenced the implementation of FAW innovation. The main outcomes extracted from 96 peer-reviewed publications on a range of livestock species identified 11 internal factors including farmer knowledge, empathy, personality, values, and human-animal bond; 15 external factors including economic advantages, communication, time and labor influenced the perception of FAW. Farmers’ knowledge and cost implications of FAW were the most frequently reported factors. The review further highlights the need for promoting interdisciplinary collaboration and stakeholder participation. This study suggests strategies to improve FAW, including tools to support behavioral changes amongst farmers.

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Section: Theory Of Planned Behavior (Tpb) and Theory Of Reasoned Actimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: Personalitymentioning

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Factors that Influence Farmers’ Views on Farm Animal Welfare: A Semi-Systematic Review and Thematic Analysis

Balzani

Hanlon

2020

Animals

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“…Adaptive measures are an inevitable part of environmental policies to mitigate the adverse effect of climate change (Dill et al 2015;Senger et al 2017a;Borges et al 2019). Climate change is harmful to livestock in the absence of adaptive strategies like changing livestock breed/species, manure management, non-farm participation, improved feeding, livestock diversification, provision of medical facilities, and seasonal and weather forecast information Thornton and Herrero 2015).…”

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Modeling smallholder livestock herders’ intentions to adopt climate smart practices: An extended theory of planned behavior

Faisal

Xia

Akhtar³

et al. 2020

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Climate change is persistently causing adverse effects to the agriculture sector of developing countries, specifically in Asia. Pakistan is no exception to this effect and is ranked among the top 10 countries, which are most vulnerable to climate change. A huge upcoming challenge is to sustain an equilibrium among production and environmental protection. In this context, adaptation to climate change is considered as a win-win strategy for agriculture sectors in developing countries. However, numerous studies have focused on current farm-level adaptation while a scant interest has been shown on the role of physiological factors in the process of shaping small livestock herders' intentions towards environmental enrichment measures. A possible explanation of their lagging intentions is particular significance as they may comply with requisite climate adaptation measures or not. For deeper understanding, the current study investigates different psychological factors that affect the small livestock herder's intentions on adopting climate smart practices by using theory of planned behavior (TPB) with additional constructs (moral norms, risk perception, and social attributes). To this end, 405 small livestock herders from Punjab, Pakistan, were selected on the basis of multistage random sampling. The results of structural equation model showed that all constructs accounted for 57% of the variances in small livestock herders' adoption intentions. The outcome of this research offers a new indication regarding the interrelationship of numerous variables which are crucial to understand behavioral changes and psychological interventions. Overall attitude was the most prominent construct in the extended TPB model, which is mainly influenced by risk perception awareness. The results suggest that veterinary experts and extension agents should focus on psychological factors to explore different prospects to increase the involvement of livestock herders in environmental enrichment measures with little effort rather than tackling with traditional practices because it will be more likely to affect people's consideration of the external obstructions to act. Findings also offer public and private intervention for enabling technical and policy environment and strengthen social networks to keep livestock herders on track of updates of running government policies to ensure them to adopt climate change measures for their prosperous future.

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Building climate resilience through crop residue utilization: Experiences of Ghanaian smallholder farmers

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A major limiting factor affecting the uptake of conservation agriculture practices in smallholder farming systems in sub‐Saharan Africa is the limited availability of sufficient crop residues for use as surface mulch. This paper assesses the trade‐offs in crop residue utilization among smallholder farmers and its implications for soil management in the face of climate change risks in northern Ghana. The paper triangulated data from 350 household surveys with participatory key informant interviews from seven selected communities in three districts of northern Ghana. The problem confrontation index (PCI) was adopted to identify and rank the challenges associated with farmers’ decision to use crop residues, while a multivariate probit model was used to analyse and predict the factors that influence farmers’ choice of crop residue management practices. Results showed that crop residues were used as cooking fuel in households (21%), livestock feed (21%), left on the farm to decompose as mulch (34%) or burned to clear the land (24%). Key challenges identified included high labour cost (PCI = 404), high labour intensity (PCI = 388), the cost and transport for collection and storage of externally sourced crop residue (PCI = 383) and the low benefit from crop residue to farm output/soil fertility (PCI = 339). Results from the multivariate probit model revealed that household and farm variables, institutional and socio‐psychological factors, and experience of some climate shocks all influence farmers’ choice of crop residue management practices. Crop residue use and management practices adopted were determined by factors including the crops being grown, challenges faced by farmers and the management options available. The study recommends the need for the Government of Ghana to empower farmers through the provision of technical knowledge and machinery for the sustainable utilization of crop residues due to the high labour intensity and cost associated with such practices.

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Identifying the factors impacting on farmers’ intention to adopt animal friendly practices

Cited by 42 publications

References 31 publications

Factors that Influence Farmers’ Views on Farm Animal Welfare: A Semi-Systematic Review and Thematic Analysis

Factors that Influence Farmers’ Views on Farm Animal Welfare: A Semi-Systematic Review and Thematic Analysis

Modeling smallholder livestock herders’ intentions to adopt climate smart practices: An extended theory of planned behavior

Building climate resilience through crop residue utilization: Experiences of Ghanaian smallholder farmers

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