A review and some reflections on farmers' adoption of sustainable agricultural practices worldwide

Foguesatto, Cristian Rogério; Borges, João Augusto Rossi; Machado, João Armando Dessimon

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138831

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“…adaptive capacity, further providing us a better picture of how broader structures, beyond individual attributes, effect action (Rodríguez-Cruz and Niles, 2021). Farmers' decision-making around climate change adaptation has been studied from various disciplinary perspectives (Prokopy et al, 2019;Ranjan et al, 2019;Foguesatto et al, 2020), with mixed conclusions on the extent to which adaptive capacities impact adaptation outcomes. For example, in contrast to studies in low and middle-income countries (e.g., Kassie et al, 2015), adoption of new behaviors among mainland US farmers is not highly dependent on natural and agricultural resources (e.g., land tenure, farm size, etc.)…”

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“…Though these studies have shown the importance of integrating different aspects of adaptive capacity, there is still a gap in triangulating the role of individual and structural aspects of adaptation behaviors (Foguesatto et al, 2020;Wilson et al, 2020;Rodríguez-Cruz and Niles, 2021). Much of the literature has either focused on the intention to adopt or actual adoption, and has not considered both within the same population .…”

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confidence: 99%

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Puerto Rican Farmers' Obstacles Toward Recovery and Adaptation Strategies After Hurricane Maria: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Adaptive Capacity

Rodríguez-Cruz

Moore

Niles

2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Farmers across the globe are experiencing compounding shocks that make evident the need to better understand potential drivers and barriers to strengthen adaptive capacity. This is especially true in the context of a disaster, where a disruption in the natural and built environment hinders livelihood strategies and exposes the underlying dynamics that perpetuate vulnerability to natural hazards. As such, the interconnections of structural and individual attributes must be considered when evaluating adaptive capacity. This paper uses a convergent mixed-methods approach to assess Puerto Rican farmers' actual and intended adoption of adaptation practices, in light of the obstacles they faced toward recovery after 2017's category four Hurricane Maria, to contribute to better understanding adaptive capacity. This study uses data from 405 farmers across Puerto Rico (87% response rate), surveyed 8 months after Maria by agricultural agents of the Extension Service of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. Quantitative data was assessed through negative binomial regressions (actual adoption) and generalized linear models (intended adoption), while qualitative data (reported obstacles) were analyzed through thematic analysis. This study found that almost half of farmers adopted an adaptation practice after Maria, and that in many cases, broader structures, such as systems of governance, farmers' social networks, and infrastructure, affect adaptive capacity more than individual perceptions of capacity. Future adaptation strategies and interventions, especially in the context of disaster, should consider the extent to which structural factors hinder individuals' ability to prepare for, respond, and recover from the impacts of these shocks. Our results show that there might be opportunity to enact new systems in light of catastrophic events, but this does not solely depend on individual actions. The mixed-methods approach used can inform future studies in better assessing adaptive capacity from a standpoint that incorporates individual and structural components.

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Puerto Rican Farmers' Obstacles Toward Recovery and Adaptation Strategies After Hurricane Maria: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Adaptive Capacity

Rodríguez-Cruz

Moore

Niles

2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…The results of KMO > 0.5 (Original value was 0.897) at p < 0.01 significance level verify that the data were suitable for PCA analysis in this research [51]. Each factor had each statement belonging to factor loading >0.5, which is similar to [25]. Communalities' values of each statement referred to >0.40 being acceptable for PCA [51].…”

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“…Farmers have been assisted by the government and non-governmental organizations, particularly in Europe, through financial incentives [23]. However, there is limited evidence in Bangladesh, where policy based on incentives has mostly been inadequate to motivate farmers to adopt the SASs [24,25]. Hence, policy and programs that focus on economic incentives should be revised in Bangladesh to enhance the implementation of SASs by coupling them with non-economic incentives.…”

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Assessing Farmers’ Typologies of Perception for Adopting Sustainable Adaptation Strategies in Bangladesh

Islam

Hasanuzzaman

Jaman

et al. 2021

Climate

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The implementation of sustainable adaptation strategies (SASs) is crucial to mitigate climate change impact as well as reduce the loss of natural disasters and increase agricultural crop production. However, current policies and programs based on agricultural incentives are mostly inadequate to increase SASs practices at the farm level. Hence, a deeper understanding of farmers’ ‘perceived typologies to the environmental issue and climate change’ is necessary for implementing SASs to enhance farmers’ ability to adapt at the farm level. This research intends to demarcate farmers in various categories, according to their perceptions on environmental and climate change issues in the northern part of Bangladesh. Principal component analysis (PCA) and cluster analysis (CA) were employed to analyze the survey data collected from 501 households in the study area. Farmers were clustered into three types, ‘Ecocentric’, ‘Worried’, and ‘Anthropocentric’, based on their perceived knowledge regarding environmental issues and climate change, which guides the adoption of SASs. The ‘Worried’ cluster showed a high sense of perceived risk of climate change and a significant positive association with the adoption of SASs. By contrast, ‘Ecocentric’ and ‘Anthropocentric’ groups showed a low sense of awareness of climate change and a significant negative association with the adoption of SASs. The findings can assist policymakers in promoting the adoption of SASs based on the farmers’ cluster and thus enhance their resilience.

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The reform of farming measures is a driving force for agricultural adjustment with a special emphasis on technical measures for agriculture in arid areas. For a long time, researchers have reported that farmers are facing different practical problems during tillage management practices for crop growth, soil properties, soil quality, soil fertility, crop yield and sustainable soil utilization, especially in arid areas (Bandopadhyay, Martin-Closas, Pelacho, & De-Bruyn, 2018;Rogério, Borges, & Machado, 2020). Many people are accustomed to traditional farming practices, but these farming systems may decrease soil fertility and deteriorate agricultural ecosystems; hence, they may be unsuitable for the sustainable development of agriculture (Adnan,

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Different techniques for high‐throughput amplicon sequencing of the soil bacterial community structure after spring maize cultivation

Yang

Tong

Chadwick

et al. 2020

Soil Use and Management

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A review and some reflections on farmers' adoption of sustainable agricultural practices worldwide

Cited by 94 publications

References 34 publications

Puerto Rican Farmers' Obstacles Toward Recovery and Adaptation Strategies After Hurricane Maria: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Adaptive Capacity

Puerto Rican Farmers' Obstacles Toward Recovery and Adaptation Strategies After Hurricane Maria: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Adaptive Capacity

Assessing Farmers’ Typologies of Perception for Adopting Sustainable Adaptation Strategies in Bangladesh

Different techniques for high‐throughput amplicon sequencing of the soil bacterial community structure after spring maize cultivation

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