Why do farmers behave as they do? Understanding compliance with rural, agricultural, and food attribute standards

Herzfeld, Thomas; Jongeneel, R.A.

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.06.014

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“…There are limitations to this approach and there is a requirement for further research into more complex settings, especially those relating to repeated contracting and end-of-contact problems (Kuhfuss et al, 2015) and contracting with groups of agents (Herzfeld and Jongeneel, 2012). …”

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Should We Pay for Ecosystem Service Outputs, Inputs or Both?

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Hanley

2016

Environ Resource Econ

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Should We Pay for Ecosystem Service Outputs, Inputs or Both?

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Environ Resource Econ

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“…Furthermore, the results also show inconsistencies at the spatial level as productivist action and thought can co-exist alongside non-productivist patterns (Burton & Wilson, 2006;Marsden & Sonnino, 2008;Herzfeld & Jongeneel, 2012). The results also show that some types of behaviors and attitudes are related with some particular areas.…”

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Land Managers’ Heterogeneity in Mediterranean Landscapes - Consistencies and Contradictions Between Attitudes and Behaviors

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Pinto‐Correia

2014

Journal of Landscape Ecology

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European rural landscapes face today several changes, which might indicate that an ongoing transition process is taking place. While these transition processes have been mainly addressed for Western Europe and landscapes dominated by intensive agriculture, they remain to be understood in Southern Europe, where large areas are occupied by extensive farming systems, maintaining a distinctive landscape character. However in Mediterranean areas, new ways of managing the land arise, no longer by the conventional farmers alone but also by a multiplicity of other land managers. Nevertheless, the dominant discourse in the farm sector, both in politics and in individuals, is still focused on production. Therefore to better assess the potential of land managers to adapt to changes and to meet the expectations that society articulates towards the farming sector, a description of the land managers' diversity deserves a renewed attention. A number of questions remain unanswered or only partially answered. Which land managers are contributing more to the changes happening? Which are the drivers that encourage or prevent innovation and changes in the holdings? Do all farmers behave in the same way? Does the attitudes-thoughts get translated into actual behavior-actions? In order to answer these questions a land managers' typology anchored on the multifunctional transition framework is proposed. It aims to understand which land manager type contributes more to the multifunctional transition bounded by non-productivist and productivist strategies in place. This typology exploits the combination between the behaviors-action in the holding and the expressed attitudes-thoughts. To achieve this typology, 373 questionnaires were completed by land managers in South Portugal. Results reveal in some cases inconsistencies between land managers attitudes and their action, in an opposite sense to what has been earlier identified in Northwestern Europe, and reflecting the heterogeneity of Mediterranean agriculture and land ownership. Thus, an understanding of the land managers types will lead us to a better understanding of what are land managers looking for in the landscape they use. This knowledge can support better oriented policies and management decision, certainly more easily accepted by land managers since their views, behaviors, attitudes and opinions are taken in consideration.

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“…If the regulatory environment is able to ensure universal compliance, the objectives of these policies are likely to be achieved. Unfortunately, universal compliance can rarely-if everbe reached, and it is, therefore, necessary to study factors influencing compliance behavior in the systems where the policy is to be applied, as demonstrated in other contexts (Herzfeld and Jongeneel 2012;Ramcilovic-Suominen and Hansen 2012).…”

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Using Risk Assessment as Part of a Systems Approach to the Control and Prevention of HPAIV H5N1

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Since its emergence in China in 1996, highly pathogenic avian influenza virus subtype H5N1 has spread across Asia, Africa, and Europe. Countries had to promptly implement control and prevention measures. Numerous research and capacity building initiatives were conducted in the affected regions to improve the capacity of national animal health services to support the development of risk-based mitigation strategies. This paper reviews and discusses risk assessments initiated in several South-East Asian and African countries under one of these projects. Despite important data gaps, the risk assessment results improved the ability of policy makers to design appropriate risk management policies. Disease risk was strongly influenced by various human behavioral factors. The ongoing circulation of HPAIV H5N1 in several Asian countries and in Egypt, despite major disease control efforts, supports the need for an interdisciplinary approach to development of tailored risk management policies, in accordance with the EcoHealth paradigm and the broad concept of risk governance. In particular, active stakeholders engagement and integration of economic and social studies into the policy making process are needed to optimize compliance and sustainable behavioral changes, thereby increasing the effectiveness of mitigation strategies.

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Why do farmers behave as they do? Understanding compliance with rural, agricultural, and food attribute standards

Cited by 46 publications

References 54 publications

Should We Pay for Ecosystem Service Outputs, Inputs or Both?

Should We Pay for Ecosystem Service Outputs, Inputs or Both?

Land Managers’ Heterogeneity in Mediterranean Landscapes - Consistencies and Contradictions Between Attitudes and Behaviors

Using Risk Assessment as Part of a Systems Approach to the Control and Prevention of HPAIV H5N1

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