Drivers and barriers to adopt best management practices. Survey among Italian dairy farmers

Bechini, Luca; Costamagna, Chiara; Zavattaro, Laura; Grignani, Carlo; Bijttebier, Jo; Ruysschaert, Greet

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118825

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“…A further 112 answers were collected, with a total response rate of 26%. This rate compares favourably to previous research on BODs (Bechini et al, 2020; Minichilli et al, 2012; Silvius & de Graaf, 2019). The final dataset used in this study included responses from 184 Italian board members.…”

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Environmental attitude in the board. Who are the “green directors”? Evidences from Italy

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Board members' attitudes towards environmental protection are an important antecedent of how companies define and implement sustainability initiatives, but little is known about directors' attitudes and the factors associated with these. Using survey data on Italian board members, the research sought to explore the relationships between these individual's personal attributes, especially those related to their roles on boards, and their attitudes towards environmental protection. The findings suggest that female directors, directors with financial background, and independent directors are positively related to attitudes towards environmental protection. In the financial sector, younger board members and risk committee members show stronger environmental attitudes. The results could be of interest to policymakers because the board member attributes identified may require a stronger regulatory focus in order to achieve public policy's environmental protection objectives and to governance bodies in terms of defining board committees' composition and selecting “green directors” oriented towards environmental issues.

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Environmental attitude in the board. Who are the “green directors”? Evidences from Italy

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“…The low predictive power of the farmer's characteristics links to the social environment -which the present study cannot control for -that the literature proved already to be a prominent influencer of farmers' behaviour. Family members often exert a significant role in the management of the farm, besides other referents that may drive farmers' decisions (Bechini et al, 2020;Sok et al, 2021), turning individual characteristics not significant. Results hint that higher individual educational attainment may reduce the influence of referents on individual attitude towards foreigners.…”

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Visa for competitiveness: foreign workforce and Italian dairy farms’ performance

Antonioli

Severini

Vigani

2022

European Review of Agricultural Economics

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This paper studies the impact of foreign labour on the competitiveness of Italian dairy farms relying on the theory of foreign labour in profit functions. Application of an endogenous switching regression model identifies the drivers of adoption of the immigrant workforce. A counterfactual analysis performed on unit labour costs between farms employing and non-employing immigrants suggests the essential role of foreign farmworkers on dairy farms’ competitiveness, which provide a cheaper source of labour. The lower unit labour cost for immigrant workers resembles staunch support to the newly introduced ‘social conditionality’, for a CAP delivering also for farmworkers.

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“…• Sustainable agricultural techniques, allowing to reduce production inputs, especially irrigation water and fertilizers (Provenzano et al, 2013). Certain promote policies are mandatory to ensure farmers' adoption (Bechini et al, 2020).…”

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Environmental impact of Aposelemis dam and tunnel water supply project in NE Crete, Greece

Vogiatzi¹,

Loupasakis

2021

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The current investigation concerns the impact observed at natural and human environment, due to the implementation of the Aposelemis water supply project, as additional aqueduct of Heraklion and Agios Nikolaos cities, as well as other important tourist areas, in NE Crete, Greece. Aposelemis project is differentiated from standard water supply dam projects, through a special component of an underground tunnel that diverts uphill surface water from Lasithi Plateau into the reservoir. The study concerns the first years of project’s operation, and focuses at four affected areas, namely the Lasithi Plateau upland area, dam’s region, river estuary and water supplied cities. The investigation was based on various site visits, while a significant aspect involves local stakeholders’ observation, opinion and perception on the environmental impact of the project in everyday life, through four detailed questionnaires posed to the affected areas’ population. The recorded consequences were characterized as positive or negative and evaluated according to their size and importance, estimated for the current period and also for the future. Among the main positive effects are urban areas’ drinking water supply and improved upland plateau’s flood water drainage, while among the negative consequences appear multiple water resources’ impacts and feelings of downstream lakeside residents. The investigation indicates the initial environmental impact and sets the basis for further future research towards sustainability.

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Drivers and barriers to adopt best management practices. Survey among Italian dairy farmers

Cited by 29 publications

References 53 publications

Environmental attitude in the board. Who are the “green directors”? Evidences from Italy

Environmental attitude in the board. Who are the “green directors”? Evidences from Italy

Visa for competitiveness: foreign workforce and Italian dairy farms’ performance

Environmental impact of Aposelemis dam and tunnel water supply project in NE Crete, Greece

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