Land-use and land-base patterns in non-industrial private forests: Factors affecting forest management in Northern Spain

Factors determining forest management by farmers in northwest Spain: Application of discriminant analysis

“…These predictors were attributes related to the land ownership (forest productivity, productive orientation, land-use planning competence, role of landuse planning competence, acquisition pattern, holding size and number of plots), the landowner profile (gender, age, educational level, agroforestry training, role of training, experience in farm management and personal labor-force) and the family unit (household income, agroforestry investment and subsidies, role of subsidies, number of members, family labor-force, generational replacement, employment and professional labor-force) ( Table 2). The key role of these variables in NIPF owner behavior and management is supported by the results of previous studies (Kuuluvainen and Salo, 1991;Löyland et al, 1995;Hardie and Parks, 1996;Kuuluvainen et al, 1996;Zhang and Pearse, 1997;Zhang and Flick, 2001;Bolkesjø and Baardsen, 2002;Kline et al, 2002;Conway et al, 2003;Arano et al, 2004;Potter-Witter, 2005;Ross-Davis et al, 2005;Rodríguez-Vicente and Marey-Pérez, 2008;2009).…”

“…In such holdings, the typical land-use system is the combination and interspersal of agricultural crops with wooded stands of commercial forest species, although forest land is also devoted to pasture in some inland mountainous areas of Eastern Galicia. An important fraction of individual private forest land in Galicia is owned by active and retired farmers, and is generally managed for marketable products as a supplementary income in the family unit and as an active asset to pass on to heirs 2009).…”

Factors influencing Irish farmers' afforestation intention

“…In both situations, the variable of interest takes a binary form, considering planting or not, hence logit models were used. Logit models have been widely used to describe farmers' behaviour, first from the late 1950s in adoptiondiffusion research and more recently in research on farmers' uptake of multifunctional farming or agri-environmental measures (Crabtree et al, 1998;Finger and El Benni, 2013;Jongeneel et al, 2008;Mettepenningen et al, 2013;Poppenborg and Koellner, 2013;Rodrìguez-Vicente and Marey-Pèrez, 2009;Sheikh et al, 2003;Wauters et al, 2010;Yiridoe et al, 2010).…”

Private woodland owners’ perspectives on multifunctionality in English woodlands

“…Indeed, a number of studies (for example, Kline et al, 2000a;Pregernig, 2001;Wiersum et al, 2005;Church and Ravenscroft, 2008;Rodriguez-Vicente and Marey-Perez, 2009) suggest that in order to design effective policies and support mechanisms (including extension services) for private forest owners, policy makers need to understand the motivations, attitudes and objectives of private woodland owners with policies that most align with owner goals most likely to succeed. Dhubhain et al (2006) agree: "knowledge of forest owners' values, attitudes and ownership objectives is .…”