2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.10.078
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Sustainability in the New Zealand horticulture industry

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“…After reviewing these studies and other literature (see. e.g., De Silva & Forbes, 2016;Delai & Takahashi, 2013;Retamal, 2017;Scur & Barbosa, 2017) we derived a list of practices that are commonly referred as sustainability practices. These practices include: waste management, recycling, energy saving, water saving, customer satisfaction, packaging, total quality management, employee education and training and sustainability reporting.…”
Section: Sustainability Practices In Small and Medium Enterprisesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…After reviewing these studies and other literature (see. e.g., De Silva & Forbes, 2016;Delai & Takahashi, 2013;Retamal, 2017;Scur & Barbosa, 2017) we derived a list of practices that are commonly referred as sustainability practices. These practices include: waste management, recycling, energy saving, water saving, customer satisfaction, packaging, total quality management, employee education and training and sustainability reporting.…”
Section: Sustainability Practices In Small and Medium Enterprisesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In line with this barrier category, De Silva and Forbes (2016) found for NZ horticultural growers that "lack of management time", "costs associated with implementation", and "compliance/paperwork" were the main barriers for further adoption of sustainability practices.…”
Section: Learning and Adjustmentmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…In this final point, De Silva and Forbes (2016) find that showing no interest is one of the important barriers stopping growers in the NZ horticulture industry from carrying out additional sustainability practices. However, it is not clear in their study if showing no interest is habitual behaviour, which can be a norm that goes beyond adoption, or a disincentive to the adoption of new farming practices.…”
Section: Habitual Behaviourmentioning
confidence: 98%
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“…New Zealand also has the lowest level of producer support for agriculture in the developed world [6], resulting in agricultural enterprises with different financial incentives to their equivalents in other regions such as Europe [7]. The New Zealand horticulture industry is worth approximately $4billon and produces a wide variety of products from more than 100,000ha of land [8] Agricultural sustainability is both driven by, and responding to, the values of different stakeholder groups at different scales [9]. It is however, at a farm level were practical steps will likely need to be taken if the challenge of agricultural sustainability is to be addressed [10].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%