Categorising farming values as economic, conservation and lifestyle

Maybery, Darryl; Crase, Lin; Gullifer, Chris

doi:10.1016/j.joep.2003.10.001

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“…Previous literature has shown that there are many variables that influence landowners' adoption of, or intention to adopt, environmental practices [7]. The two methods employed were a telephone survey in 2010 and semi-structured interviews with key actors in southern Alberta.…”

Section: Methodology and Resultsmentioning

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“…The shift in the understanding of the issues and how to solve them requires a new framework. Mayberry et al [7] note that in Australia MBIs have "considered landholders to be homogenous", therefore missing an important opportunity to tailor the design and implementation of an MBI to increase its acceptance on the ground, and hence the ability to meet the environmental objective. This is a critical area of research in environmental governance across the world.…”

Section: Environmental Issues and Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Market based instruments: issues and opportunities for agriculture and water quality services in Alberta, Canada

Kerr¹,

Bjørnlund²

2012

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Society is dependent on healthy ecosystems to supply crucial ecosystem services (ES) for human well-being; including quality source water for drinking, economic use and recreational opportunities. Presently human development activities are threatening many ecosystems and thereby the quality of life of our societies. Market-based instruments (MBIs) are being promoted as a valid tool to help governments manage this complex issues; however not many jurisdictions have much experience with MBIs. This paper investigates the importance of context and values for the acceptance of MBIs. Building on economic theory, we expose how landowners' values and perspectives are important factors in their potential acceptance of MBIs for environmental management. A case study on water quality issues caused by non-point source contaminants in southern Alberta is used to look at land owners values and perspectives. The paper presents key theoretical underpinnings of the research, describes the methods used and preliminary findings are reported. We conclude with the key learnings from the work and the next steps of the overall research program.

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Section: Methodology and Resultsmentioning

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Section: Environmental Issues and Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Market based instruments: issues and opportunities for agriculture and water quality services in Alberta, Canada

Kerr¹,

Bjørnlund²

2012

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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“…A study involving Australian farmers produced a psychometric measure of values (Maybery, Crase, & Gullifer, 2005). These values are as follows: (a) Economic (e.g., A maximum annual return from my property is my most important aim); (b) Lifestyle (e.g., A rural environment is a great place to raise children); and, (c) Conservation (e.g., Land stewardship by farmers is more important than anything else about farming).…”

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A research agenda for the vocational psychology of agriculture

McIlveen

2015

Australian Journal of Career Development

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The Vocational Psychology of Agriculture – Farming Food and Fibre is advanced in this article. It is argued that vocational psychology can and should provide a substantive contribution to agriculture by solving problems associated with labour supply and the quality of work, particularly the problems of poverty and hunger that blight the world. Despite its scientific and professional capability, the immediate problem is that vocational psychology lacks an epistemology and knowledge base on which to advance its contribution to agriculture. The Vocational Psychology of Agriculture – Farming Food and Fibre is motivated by the ethical vision of the psychology of working perspective. The Systems Theory Framework of Career is used as a prism to render a research agenda for the Vocational Psychology of Agriculture – Farming Food and Fibre. The Systems Theory Framework enables the integration of conceptually different vocational psychology theories. When coherently organised by the Systems Theory Framework, these theories will furnish novel research questions that may populate the research agenda and, ultimately, foster research and development that enhance agriculture’s capacity to feed and clothe the world.

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“…Because the farming literature often treats them as equivalent and sometimes hard to separate from one another, we will refer to studies which include both goals and values. The literatures from the disciplines of economics (Gasson and Errington 1993, Gomez-Limon and Riesgo 2004, Vogel 1996, psychology (Maybery et al 2005) and sociology (Vanclay 2003) suggest that farmers' management responses to any new policy instrument will not be based solely on profit maximization. Instead, non-profit-maximizing factors derived from a more complex arrangement of values and attitudes influence their behavior (Kuehne and Björnlund 2006).…”

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Dairy farmers’ values and how their values affect their decision

Hansen

Greve

2014

AFSci

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Values affect humans' perception of situations and problems and guide our actions. The objective of this study was to explore the values of dairy farmers, and whether their values influenced their decisions to maintain dairy farming or to buy consultancy services. During late fall 2007 we visited and interviewed 90 farmers. First we did a qualitative analysis of the data and then we merged the interview data with the existing database of financial data from the year 2007 to do statistical analyses. We also checked whether the farmers still produced milk in 2013, six years after the interviews. Most farmers had terminal values like keeping up the tradition and to have an interesting work. Value combinations with instrumental values such as to earn money and to produce milk were common. Realizing that many farmers prioritize terminal values over instrumental values has important consequences for dairy companies, dairy consultants and politicians.

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Categorising farming values as economic, conservation and lifestyle

Cited by 173 publications

References 23 publications

Market based instruments: issues and opportunities for agriculture and water quality services in Alberta, Canada

Market based instruments: issues and opportunities for agriculture and water quality services in Alberta, Canada

A research agenda for the vocational psychology of agriculture

Dairy farmers’ values and how their values affect their decision

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