Bouncing back or moving forward? : Analysing resilience and agricultural policies in the European Union DOI Open Access
Yannick Buitenhuis

Published: Sept. 12, 2022

The resilience of European farming systems is increasingly being put under pressure due to social, economic, and environmental challenges.These challenges make it difficult for maintain delivering their public private goods.Scholars practitioners therefore call strengthening systems' through EU agricultural policy.However, research understand the link between policies has remained scarce.This dissertation aims expand scientific knowledge on how policies, especially Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), influence resilience, consisting three capacities: robustness, adaptability, transformability.The central question this is: How does policy shape systems?The in was guided by four sub-questions: (1) do goals instruments CAP 2013 reform, its implementation Netherlands, support or constrain a Dutch system?; (2) actors at farming-system level experience system cases Flanders, Poland, Spain, UK?; (3) concept framed post-2020 reform process which stakeholders deploy these frames?; (4) what recommendations improve capability are preferred policymakers?This concludes that policy, headed CAP, largely puts forth one-sided way strengthen and, therefore, shapes with uneven adverse effects.The focused ensuring can bounce back familiar situation after short-term shocks resorting conventional interventions, often insufficient adaptability Chapter 1: Introduction ....

Language: Английский

Farm typologies for understanding farm systems and improving agricultural policy DOI Creative Commons
Robert Huber, Bartosz Bartkowski, Calum Brown

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Agricultural Systems, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 213, P. 103800 - 103800

Published: Nov. 3, 2023

Farm typologies help to identify patterns across a wide range of farm systems and describe heterogeneity in agriculture concisely. They can also support the design agricultural policies by providing information knowledge about policy target groups. For example, voluntary agri-environmental schemes could be tailored specific landscapes types. typologies, however, are often developed from scratch, with limited connection previous studies making. The objective this study is clarify purposes research making develop framework that allows increase usefulness usability for Based on review 13 systematically identified overview we establishes connections between along different stages process. We find multiple two most common which understanding characteristics, heterogeneity, development newly suggests connecting these improve validity, transferability, relevance Our provides an entry point encouraging cooperation developers users improvement through new data (including behavioural data) methods such as machine learning. conclude future build existing work but must aware challenges associated use Knowledge prospects using usabilityof contribute targeted instruments. By increasing acceptance, perceived fairness, legitimacy, their effectiveness efficiency, urgently needed successful transformation more sustainable sector.

Language: Английский

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Good intentions, limited action: when do farmers’ intentions to adopt sustainable farming practices turn into actual behaviour? DOI Creative Commons
Andrea Byfuglien, Anne M. van Valkengoed, Stefania Innocenti

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Journal of Environmental Psychology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 102522 - 102522

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Understanding changes in reducing pesticide use by farmers: Contribution of the behavioural sciences DOI Creative Commons

Elliot Meunier,

Pauline Smith, Thibaud Griessinger

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Agricultural Systems, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 214, P. 103818 - 103818

Published: Dec. 19, 2023

Language: Английский

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An agroecological assessment of uncrewed aerial vehicle spraying in Greek viticulture DOI Creative Commons
Elias Maritan, Evangelos Anastasiou, Vasilis Psiroukis

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Smart Agricultural Technology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 100837 - 100837

Published: Feb. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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The role of social and personal norms in biodiversity conservation: A segmentation of Swiss farmers DOI Creative Commons
Christian Ritzel, Antonia Kaiser, Yanbing Wang

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Journal of Environmental Management, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 377, P. 124605 - 124605

Published: Feb. 27, 2025

The agricultural sector is a major contributor to global biodiversity loss. Ecological focus areas (EFAs), such as extensively used meadows, hedges, and buffer strips, are cornerstone in promoting conservation. Previous research highlights social personal norms strong predictors of farmers' efforts conserve biodiversity. Accordingly, we aim segment Swiss farmers according their analyze how these segments differ terms pro-environmental behavior. Furthermore, interested whether farmer's self-efficacy, the importance farm sales payments, political priorities, socio-demographic characteristics. For empirical analyses, unique dataset combining data from survey (N = 882) with on registered EFAs Agricultural Information System. We explored based responses four items capturing toward conservation using latent class analysis. To estimate mean differences between segments, an analysis variance covariance. Our results showed that farmer high implemented more than those lower norms. Moreover, were associated enhanced higher payments for income, stronger priority environmental policies, less intensive production practices. This study informs policymakers designing norm interventions that, example, include information about society's approval efforts.

Language: Английский

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Spraying for the beauty: Pesticide use for visual appearance in apple production DOI Creative Commons
Lucca Zachmann, Chloe McCallum, Robert Finger

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Agricultural Economics, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 55(4), P. 621 - 638

Published: May 15, 2024

Abstract Pesticides are used to reduce yield losses and enhance the visual quality of products. However, pesticide use raises concerns due negative health environmental effects, hence ambitious policy goals for their reduction have been established. Reducing pesticides which mainly focus on products could be an efficient strategy contribute these goals, without reducing food production. role “cosmetic” is so far not well documented understood. Here, we quantify cosmetic influence supply chain characteristics use. We table apple production, where a key aspect. Using sample 196 growers in Switzerland, find that 23.5%–59.2% apples’ appearance. Farms marketing via intermediaries 23.9‐29.6% more likely spray purposes compared farms direct marketing. Our findings highlight chains farmer decision‐making, recommending decrease product quality, especially retail environments, thus minimizing unnecessary irreversible risks exposure by farmers compromising security.

Language: Английский

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Characterizing beef and sheep farming systems to customize sustainability interventions and policy implementation DOI Creative Commons

M.C. Ayala,

J.C.J. Groot,

Kevin Kilcline

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Journal of Environmental Management, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 366, P. 121900 - 121900

Published: July 16, 2024

Agricultural systems tend to be characterised by large diversity, therefore, solving socio-economic and environmental problems in agriculture requires targeted contextualised policies. However, policies often fail recognize this heterogeneity their design or implementation. This can result the use of sector-wide characteristics and, consequently, generic that are not tailored specific farming systems. In context, farm typologies a useful tool, as they help identify differences commonalities highly heterogeneous groups. study, we focused on Irish beef sheep sectors used wide range structural, socio-economic, indicators develop typology. resulted identification six distinct types: Small Cattle Farms, Extensive Sheep Medium-size Mixed Intensive Farms. We then analysed performance these types discussed potential variation implementation impact currently proposed interventions among types. argue failing consider different within make farm-level unsuccessful thus hinder achievement sustainability goals. The approach developed manuscript could also applicable other locations, guide more successful

Language: Английский

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European Farmer Perspectives and their Adoption of Ecological Practices DOI Creative Commons
Andrew Barnes, Helena Hansson,

Larissa Billaudet

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EuroChoices, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 21(3), P. 5 - 12

Published: Dec. 1, 2022

Summary Delivering an agricultural policy which meets ecosystem and climatic pressures addresses weaknesses in our current food system presents complex challenges for producers. Adoption of ecological practices will reduce the dependence on imports into farm is one way to meet some these ambitions. Understanding why farmers do or don’t adopt key enabling this transition. This study outlines a series investigations barriers, values perceptions towards practice adoption across European farming. We find that personal, technical institutional forces influence more sustainable but have varying levels influence. The tensions between environmental, compared purely production orientated motivations, may be barrier adoption. also strong commodity supply chains either encourage limit approaches. Promoting efforts co‐ordinated approaches public private sectors mitigate dissonance messaging alleviate tensions. identify great deal heterogeneity within farming community argue targeted approach would promote scaling up practices.

Language: Английский

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Farmer typologies integrating latent and observed characteristics: Insights for soil and water conservation outreach DOI Creative Commons
Suraj Upadhaya, J. Gordon Arbuckle, Lisa A. Schulte

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Land Use Policy, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 134, P. 106889 - 106889

Published: Sept. 8, 2023

One of the fundamental rules effective communication is to "know your audience." When engaging farmers in conservation U.S. and elsewhere where their participation voluntary, should start with recognition that are heterogeneous many ways; attitudes, values, motivations, as well farms' biophysical economic characteristics, can influence behaviors. Previous typology research Iowa, USA using data from a panel survey farmers, revealed heterogeneity by identifying four types farmers—Conservationists, Deliberative, Productivists, Traditionalists—based on latent class analysis variables measuring varied dimensions awareness, beliefs, perceived barriers practice adoption. The study presented this article advances associating observable same (e.g., farmer demographics, farm enterprises, programs, adoption practices) types. Conservationist type was most educated indicated high intention adopting cover crops. Deliberative tended not have plan Department Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service. Productivist farmed land, rented owned, had highest no-till implementation land size percentage group. Traditionalist least amount land. We expect outreach professionals, watershed coordinators, practitioners use characteristics segment population improve messages tailoring them specific types, leading higher return investment terms money, time, goodwill.

Language: Английский

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Targeting farmers’ heterogeneity to enrich climate change adaptation policy design: findings from northern Italy DOI Creative Commons
Sandra Ricart, Claudio Gandolfi, Andrea Castelletti

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Environmental Research Climate, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 3(3), P. 031001 - 031001

Published: April 30, 2024

Abstract With its scientifically proven effects and widespread acceptance, climate change stands as one of the most pressing intricate challenges for society economies. Farmers are on frontline managing change. Therefore, how they perceive respond to shapes their risk assessment structures future resilience adaptive capacity. Employing a bottom-up approach, we conducted 460 surveys randomly among farmers throughout Lombardy region in northern Italy. A triple-loop approach considering awareness, perceived impacts, adaptation measures barriers was implemented characterize potential heterogeneity farmer behaviour explore whether attitudes actions differ between profiles. We then profiled through clustering analysis. Four groups emerged, highlighting farmers’ preferences attitudes: (1) cropping-adapted isolated farmers, (2) cooperation-adapted insecure (3) insurance-adapted confident (4) services-adapted aware farmers. Although vary terms characterization farming activities (e.g. young highly educated vs. old experienced rainfed irrigated farms), similar patterns were observed regarding awareness impacts—however, contrast increased barriers. Gaining more comprehensive understanding diverse ways which assess risks adapt can promote transferability findings inform co-design tailored flexible instruments, minimizing maladaptation or ineffective transformation face

Language: Английский

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