Socio‐psychological factors, beyond knowledge, predict people’s engagement in pollinator conservation

Knapp, Jessica; Phillips, Benjamin B.; Clements, J. B.; Shaw, Rosalind F.; Osborne, Juliet L.

doi:10.1002/pan3.10168

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“…WFS-research assesses impacts mostly on pollinator diversity; impacts on pests and natural enemies are sometimes also assessed, but rarely by the same study and even more rarely farmers' responses are described (Albrecht et al, 2020;Kleijn et al, 2019;Uyttenbroeck et al, 2016). Several authors highlighted that simple payment is not sufficient and that protection of ES or biodiversity depends highly on intrinsic motivation and aspects stimulating such motivation (Ahnström et al, 2009;García-Llorente et al, 2012;Knapp et al, 2020;Kusnandar et al, 2019;Marselle et al, 2020;Meijer et al, 2015;Mwebaze et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…McCracken et al (2015) realized strong impacts of social factors and that farmer experiential learning is a key process. The importance of attitudes, values, social learning and networks for agroecological approaches has been highlighted (Ahnström et al, 2009;De Snoo et al, 2013;Knapp et al, 2020;Smith et al, 2019). Field management is a result of farmers' knowledge and values, common behaviour and traditions, individual and group decisions, promotion of chemicals by companies, trainings, policies against land parcelling, use of large-scale farm equipment, labour costs, prices, marketing options and consumer demand.…”

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“…Field management is a result of farmers' knowledge and values, common behaviour and traditions, individual and group decisions, promotion of chemicals by companies, trainings, policies against land parcelling, use of large-scale farm equipment, labour costs, prices, marketing options and consumer demand. Therefore, more contributions from social scientists to research supporting pollinator protection are recommended (Christmann et al, 2017De Snoo et al, 2013;Hall & Martins, 2020;Knapp et al, 2020).…”

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Two enabling factors for farmer-driven pollinator protection in low- and middle-income countries

Christmann¹,

Aw‐Hassan²,

Güler

et al. 2021

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

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Reward-based wildflower strips are the most common approach for pollinator protection in high-income countries. Low-and middle-income countries cannot afford this practice. A promising pilot study in Uzbekistan introduced an alternative approach, Farming with Alternative Pollinators, focusing on farmers as target group, marketable habitat enhancement plants and a method-inherent incentive: higher income per surface achieved already in the first year. We hypothesized that higher income would be a replicable enabling factor across continents, but a knowledge-raising campaign would be necessary in many low-and middle-income countries. We assessed the replicability of the incentive with a small number of farmers in 2015-2016 in Morocco but focused on assessing if farmers have sufficient knowledge to recognize wild pollinators and use this approach. We conducted 766 interviews using a standardized questionnaire with randomly selected smallholder farmers in three culturally different farming societies of lowand middle-income countries (Morocco, Turkey and Benin). Farming with Alternative Pollinators induced higher income (75% (2015), 177% (2016)) also in Morocco. The trial and the survey show the indispensability of a knowledge-raising campaign as the second enabling factor. However, based on capacity building, Farming with Alternative Pollinators could have indeed high potential to promote pollinator protection in low-and middle-income countries.

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Two enabling factors for farmer-driven pollinator protection in low- and middle-income countries

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Güler

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“…In addition, the main blossoming period of this type of vegetation overlaps with a critical ''hunger gap'' of bumblebees in August/ September (Timberlake et al 2019), when harrowed cereal stubbles and maize are not able to fulfil the demand of bumblebees' for pollen and nectar (Hass et al 2019). A bee-friendly farming system (Decourtye et al 2019;Cole et al 2020;Storkey et al 2020) yielding an eco-friendly honey can also increase public engagement in pollinator conservation (Hall and Martins 2020;Knapp et al 2021). Stubbles can also encourage farmland bird populations, particularly if they are still kept uncultivated until the winter (Orłowski et al 2011), which provides an abundant source of weed seeds for the overwintering populations (Gillings et al 2005).…”

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Rise and fall of Stachys annua (L.) L. in the Carpathian Basin: a historical review and prospects for its revival

Pinke

Dunai

Czúcz

2021

Genet Resour Crop Evol

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Stachys annua (L.) L., a melliferous archaeophyte plant became a dominant weed of the cereal stubbles of the Carpathian Basin in the medieval three-field system. By the middle of the nineteenth century, this plant provided more than two-thirds of the Hungarian honey production, and its high quality monofloral honey turned into a characteristic brand of the Hungarian apiculture. Recognizing its importance, S. annua also briefly became a minor crop cultivated in “bee gardens” and arable fields in the late nineteenth century, possibly also in response to the first signs of its upcoming decline. Starting with the advent of the steam plough, the twentieth century has brought a drastic decline for S. annua due to a combination of deeper and earlier tillage operations, agrochemicals, and new competing weed species (in particular the common ragweed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia). The last remnant stands of this previously dominant weed species are of considerable ecological and historical value as farmland biodiversity hotspots. These sites are important refuge for rare weeds, wild pollinators (including bumblebees), and declining farmland birds, which could be targeted by eco-schemes under the European Union’s (EU’s) greening Common Agricultural Policy. The rediscovery of the cropping potential of S. annua and the development of an appropriate technology would also allow its cultivation as a valuable bee forage, catch crop, green cover, or oilseed plant in the future.

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“…One important way to approach this challenge is via education [5,7,8]: Environmental education is a suitable way to increase awareness and willingness to act in an environmentally friendly way. Education also offers an opportunity to question the approach of individuals to nature and personal consumption behavior, as well as to strengthen the acceptance of biodiversity protection measures by politicians [9].…”

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Promoting Pro-Environmental BEEhavior in School. Factors Leading to Eco-Friendly Student Action

Sieg

2021

Sustainability

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Many insects, including numerous species of wild bees, are currently threatened with extinction. Environmental education in schools is a suitable starting point to draw attention to this problem, to raise awareness of biodiversity, and to highlight potential actions to protect wild bees and other insects. This study examined the relationship between pro-environmental behavior intentions and knowledge, attitude, fear, interest, and enjoyment of learning in a school intervention involving hands-on activities with living bumblebees. In total, 188 German 10- to 14-year-old high-school students participated in the project and took care of bumblebee colonies. Environmentally friendly behavioral intentions increased significantly between the pretest and posttest; however, no significant increase was found between the pretest and follow-up test. Bumblebee-friendly, pro-environmental behavior intentions correlated highly with attitude and interest, and correlated with knowledge and learning enjoyment with a medium effect size.

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Socio‐psychological factors, beyond knowledge, predict people’s engagement in pollinator conservation

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Cited by 37 publications

References 81 publications

Two enabling factors for farmer-driven pollinator protection in low- and middle-income countries

Two enabling factors for farmer-driven pollinator protection in low- and middle-income countries

Rise and fall of Stachys annua (L.) L. in the Carpathian Basin: a historical review and prospects for its revival

Promoting Pro-Environmental BEEhavior in School. Factors Leading to Eco-Friendly Student Action

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