Characterizing agroecological and conventional farmers: uncovering their motivations, practices, and perspectives toward agriculture

Palomo-Campesino, Sara; García‐Llorente, Marina; González, José A.

doi:10.1080/21683565.2021.1933671

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“…First, a preliminary characterization of the farms is necessary in order to establish a typology or classification of these farms. Following that, a comparative analysis of the socio-economic and environmental performance of the various classes of farms is required based on the typology that will be obtained [2,7,14,29]. Modeling the adoption process for non-agroecological farms is one of the last steps based on the main characteristics of the classes identified previously, and this modeling should make it possible to highlight the key variables that affect farmers' decisions as well as the opportunity costs.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this paper, we use Dalgaard's [11] definition that agroecology is "the study of the interactions between plants, animals, humans, and the environment within agricultural systems". Some authors state that there is no unique, recognized definition of agroecology [7,[11][12][13][14]. However, most researchers acknowledge agroecology as a discipline of integration but define it in other terms, for example, as "the application of ecological science to design and manage sustainable agroecosystems" [15].…”

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Bibliometric Analysis of the State of Research on Agroecology Adoption and Methods Used for Its Assessment

Nikiema,

Ezin,

Kpenavoun Chogou

2023

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As a sustainable and holistic approach to agriculture, agroecology has received considerable attention in recent years because of its potential to address the environmental, economic, and social challenges of agricultural systems. In order to identify key trends, influential authors, impactful journals, and emerging research themes surrounding the agroecological adoption topic, we performed a bibliometric analysis based on metadata from documents dealing with the topic and methods employed for its assessment over the period of January 1990 to July 2023, extracted from the Web of Science database. Based on the metadata of more than 1280 articles, our analyses show that the “identification of agroecology adoption determinants” and the “development of knowledge for food sovereignty” are among the trendiest research topics, while farming systems management and biodiversity issues are basic themes. The issue of analyzing agricultural productivity is more often linked to the impact of climate change. Also, we find that machine learning methods are not yet widely used to model the process of farm agroecological adoption. The contribution of African countries to the topic remains marginal in terms of documents produced, despite the predominance of traditional agriculture on the continent.

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Section: Research Gaps: Methodology For Agroecological Transition Mod...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

Bibliometric Analysis of the State of Research on Agroecology Adoption and Methods Used for Its Assessment

Nikiema,

Ezin,

Kpenavoun Chogou

2023

Sustainability

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“…Increasing accessibility and adoption of agroecological production methods will require major adjustments to policies, institutions, development agendas, and research [35]. Understanding and support for these changes are usually backed by a synthesis of the state of vegetable farmers' knowledge and awareness about agroecological production approaches, attitudes, and sustainable practices and how they are all interrelated [36][37][38][39]. Considering the local knowledge of farmers is essential in integrating scientific knowledge into their day-to-day challenges, leading to more effective farm management practices [37,38].…”

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“…Understanding and support for these changes are usually backed by a synthesis of the state of vegetable farmers' knowledge and awareness about agroecological production approaches, attitudes, and sustainable practices and how they are all interrelated [36][37][38][39]. Considering the local knowledge of farmers is essential in integrating scientific knowledge into their day-to-day challenges, leading to more effective farm management practices [37,38]. Furthermore, studying farmers' attitudes and their adoption patterns provides valuable insight into their decision-making processes, shedding light on their readiness to transition to agroecological production methods [38].…”

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“…Considering the local knowledge of farmers is essential in integrating scientific knowledge into their day-to-day challenges, leading to more effective farm management practices [37,38]. Furthermore, studying farmers' attitudes and their adoption patterns provides valuable insight into their decision-making processes, shedding light on their readiness to transition to agroecological production methods [38]. Ultimately, information on farmers' knowledge, attitudes, and practices allows for development programs to be more effectively deployed and adapted to the needs and wants of the community [40].…”

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Farmers’ Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices Regarding the Use of Agroecological-Based Pest Management Practices in Crucifers and Traditional African Vegetable (TAV) Production in Kenya and Tanzania

Kirui,

Kidoido,

Mutyambai

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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Crucifers and traditional African vegetables (TAVs) are important to smallholders in Kenya and Tanzania, but yield remains below potential due to pests and diseases. Agroecological production methods present a nature-based solution to pest and disease management in crucifer and TAV production. We explore the status of farmers’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding agroecological-based production pest management practices. Structured and pretested questionnaires were used to collect data from 1071 vegetable farming households in Kenya and Tanzania. Using descriptive statistics, parametric, and non-parametric analysis, our study revealed that less than 20% of farmers had received training on agroecological-based practices and less than 25% were aware of most of these practices. Among those who were aware of the practices and could confirm their effectiveness less than 12% had adopted them, except for crop rotation and handpicking of pests. This study attributes the low adoption to farmers’ negative attitudes towards the practices. Nonetheless, the study further revealed that training significantly and positively influences the adoption of the practices. Therefore, we recommend that governments and other stakeholders promote targeted awareness campaigns and increase access to training on vegetable production using sustainable pest and disease management practices.

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Gender equity as a key element for agroecological transitions: Neo‐rural women as managers of agroecological initiatives

Vizuete,

García‐Llorente,

Pérez‐Ramírez

et al. 2024

People and Nature

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Gender equity is considered to be a key element for the agroecological transitions of agri‐food systems and sustainable transformation of socioecological systems. Many women have recently become agroecological farmers. Few studies have examined this phenomenon and its potential implications for the agri‐food system and in rural areas, where men's experiences are still considered to be universal, from a gender‐focused perspective. We conducted semi‐structured interviews with 15 women leading agroecological initiatives in the Madrid region and performed content and critical discourse analyses of the interview transcripts to examine: (1) the women's motivations for agroecological project initiation; (2) the influences of the project composition, women's marital status and their trajectories in agroecological initiatives; and (3) the barriers they face and strategies they have developed to overcome difficulties. All interviewees highlighted political and lifestyle motivations, that is, based on environmental and agroecological ideals, such as liking to work closely with nature generating positive impacts on the territory and the pleasure of doing what they wanted. Motivations and barriers varied according to origin; neo‐rural women faced the most difficulties, although all interviewees reported gender‐specific barriers. We propose pathways to integrate the plurality of actors and values and to promote new rural identities that fall from traditional stereotypes to enhance gender equity and move towards a true agroecological transition. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Characterizing agroecological and conventional farmers: uncovering their motivations, practices, and perspectives toward agriculture

Cited by 13 publications

References 61 publications

Bibliometric Analysis of the State of Research on Agroecology Adoption and Methods Used for Its Assessment

Bibliometric Analysis of the State of Research on Agroecology Adoption and Methods Used for Its Assessment

Farmers’ Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices Regarding the Use of Agroecological-Based Pest Management Practices in Crucifers and Traditional African Vegetable (TAV) Production in Kenya and Tanzania

Gender equity as a key element for agroecological transitions: Neo‐rural women as managers of agroecological initiatives

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