Sustainability in the New Zealand horticulture industry

Silva, Tracy-Anne De; Forbes, Sharon L.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.10.078

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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%

Drivers and Barriers of Sustainability Practices in Emerging and Developing Economies

Mahmood

Ali

Iqbal

et al. 2019

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This paper examines the drivers and barriers to adopt sustainability practices in Pakistani SMEs. Corporate sustainability has become important issue during the last few decades. Existing literature focus on large companies and thereby paid limited attention to SMEs. There is an increased understanding that SMEs should focus on sustainability practices to remain competitive. There is limited research that capture the extent of adoption of sustainability practices as well as its drivers and barriers. This paper fills the gap and uses institutional theory to explain the drivers and barriers of sustainability practices in SMEs of Pakistan. This qualitative research was conducted in Multan, Pakistan where interviewees from the managers of eight SMEs in the manufacturing sector were conducted. In addition to this questionnaire was sent to SMEs in order to capture the extent of the adoption of sustainability practices. The research findings show certain drivers: commitment by top management, competitor pressure, stakeholders’ pressure and barriers: lack of resources, lack of training and education and lack of awareness for the adoption of sustainability practices. This paper contributes to the sustainability literature in emerging and developing countries. Through an increased awareness of drivers and barriers, policy makers and practitioners may take necessary steps to improve sustainability practices in SMEs

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Section: Sustainability Practices In Small and Medium Enterprisesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Drivers and Barriers of Sustainability Practices in Emerging and Developing Economies

Mahmood

Ali

Iqbal

et al. 2019

JBSEE

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“…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.…”

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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.…”

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confidence: 98%

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Identifying Barriers to Adoption of ‘No-Cost’ Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Practices in Pastoral Systems

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Gases. The authors wish to thank all the interviewees for their time, insights, and knowledge shared. Without their contributions this paper would not have been possible. This paper has greatly benefitted from comments from Cecile de Klein, Robyn Dimes, Joorie Knook and Shaan Badenhorst. Our thanks for their review. Disclaimer The authors are responsible for all opinions expressed and any errors or omissions. Human ethics approval was granted by AgResearch. In addition, human ethics approval was given by the Victoria University of Wellington for the interviews on Māori farms (Human Ethics Committee 24856).

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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].…”

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The Influence of Distributive Justice on Agricultural Environmental Sustainability

Whitehead¹

2017

IJESD

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Abstract-The implementation and uptake of sustainability initiatives will benefit from any burdens imposed on those expected to participate being perceived as fair. The financial structures that underpin the policies and programs designed to enhance sustainability are tightly bound to a set of ethical and moral issues. The research sought to understand how New Zealand (NZ) horticultural enterprises conceptualize fairness, equity, and distributive justice concerns surrounding environmental mitigation. A vignette survey of horticultural enterprises was used to elicit views on fairness under different distributive justice scenarios. It was found that the majority of NZ horticulturalists preferred to sacrifice some overall industry efficiency in the interest of promoting a more egalitarian distribution of burdens amongst growers. Respondent's also demonstrated a strong tendency to absorb the costs of on-farm environmental mitigation, and supported the 'polluter pays' principle. The research suggests that fairness concerns may have a significant influence over how growers' would like a sustainability assessment initiative to function.Index Terms-Agricultural sustainability, burden sharing distributive justice, sustainability assessment.

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Sustainability in the New Zealand horticulture industry

Cited by 17 publications

References 72 publications

Drivers and Barriers of Sustainability Practices in Emerging and Developing Economies

Drivers and Barriers of Sustainability Practices in Emerging and Developing Economies

Identifying Barriers to Adoption of ‘No-Cost’ Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Practices in Pastoral Systems

The Influence of Distributive Justice on Agricultural Environmental Sustainability

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