Educational needs and perceptions of the sustainability of precision agriculture: survey evidence from Greece

Kountios, Georgios; Ragkos, Athanasios; Bournaris, Thomas; Papadavid, George; Michailidis, Anastasios

doi:10.1007/s11119-017-9537-2

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“…Yost et al [42] stated that even without profit gains, farmers should invest in PA to help environmental protection. Kountios et al [68] concluded that farmers who had a better knowledge of PA would have a better acknowledgment of the environmental, economic, and social sustainability of PA.…”

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Analyzing Precision Agriculture Adoption across the Globe: A Systematic Review of Scholarship from 1999–2020

2021

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Precision agriculture (PA) is a holistic, sustainable, innovative systems approach that assists farmers in production management. Adopting PA could improve sustainable food security and community economic sustainability. Developing an understanding of PA adoption attributes is needed in order to assist extension practitioners to promote adoption and better understand the innovation adoption phenomena. A systematic review of literature was conducted to investigate attributes that foster PA adoption. Thirty-three publications were examined, and four themes were found among the reviewed publications. The results were interpreted using Rogers’ diffusion of innovations framework to address the research objectives. Relative advantage and compatibility were two dominant attributes needed to strengthen the adoption of PA, and the complexity attribute was rarely communicated to promote the adoption of PA. The systematic review indicated the rate of farmer’s PA adoption does not occur at the highest potential levels due to inadequate communication of PA attributes from change agents to farmers. Extension field staff need professional development in communicating the five PA adoption attributes to farmers in order to improve PA adoption and enhance local sustainable food security. Thus, authors recommend future complexity studies from agricultural extension specialists’ perspectives to comprehend demonstratable approaches to motivate farmers’ adoption of PA.

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Analyzing Precision Agriculture Adoption across the Globe: A Systematic Review of Scholarship from 1999–2020

2021

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“…The CatReg model can deal more optimally with both qualitative and quantitative data, as it works on two discrete and simple stages. Firstly, the nominal and ordinal variables are transformed to interval scales to maximize the relationship between each predictor and the dependent variable, and secondly, multiple regression analysis is applied to the transformed variables [47,50,51]. The relative importance measure indicates the percentage of explanation of the dependent variable while they can also be used to predict the future values of the dependent one [47,52,53].…”

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Novel Foods and Neophobia: Evidence from Greece, Cyprus, and Uganda

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The exploitation of agri-food industrial by-products to produce novel foods is a promising strategy in the framework of policies promoting the bioeconomy and circular economy. Within this context, this study aims to examine the effect of food neophobia and food technology neophobia in the acceptance of a novel food by consumers (through an EU research project: Sybawhey). As a case study, a functional yogurt-like product was developed by synergistic processing of halloumi cheese whey, enriched with banana by-products. The present study contributes to the literature by examining consumers’ perceptions for such a novel food, identifying the profile of potential final users and classifying them according to their “neophobic tendency”. A comparative approach among groups from Greece, Cyprus and Uganda was adopted to explore whether respondents have a different attitude towards this novel yogurt. Results suggest that there is a potential for increasing consumption of novel foods derived by agri-food industrial by-products, but more information about the importance of using by-products are required to enhance consumers’ acceptance of this novel food. Such results may be useful to policy makers, aiming to promote strategies towards the effective reuse of food outputs leading to the manufacture of sustainable novel foods.

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“…Yost et al [34] stated that even no profit gains with PA system but should invest in PA to help environmental protection without forgoing profit. Kountios et al [60] concluded that farmers who had a better knowledge of PA would have a better acknowledgment of the environmental, economic, and social sustainability of PA.…”

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confidence: 99%

Analyzing Precision Agriculture Adoption Across the Globe: A Systematic Review of Scholarship from 1999 – 2020

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2021

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Precision agriculture (PA) is a holistic, sustainable, innovative systems approach that assists farmers in production management. Adopting PA could improve sustainable food security and community economic sustainability. Developing an understanding of PA adoption attributes is needed to assist extension practitioners to promote adoption and better understand the innovation adoption phenomena. A systematic review of literature was conducted to investigate PA adoption. Thirty-three publications were examined, and four themes were found among the reviewed publications. The results were interpreted using Rogers’ diffusion of innovations framework to address the research objectives. Of the reviewed literature, we found relative advantage and compatibility were two dominant attributes to strengthen the adoption of PA, and the complexity attribute was rarely used to promote the adoption of PA. This study shows that change agents do not fully use five attributes of innovation when they promote PA technology to stakeholders to adopt. Thus, we recommend studies from the agricultural extension specialists’ perspectives in the future may determine contributions to motivate farmers’ adoption of PA, in particular related to complexity.

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Educational needs and perceptions of the sustainability of precision agriculture: survey evidence from Greece

Cited by 27 publications

References 15 publications

Analyzing Precision Agriculture Adoption across the Globe: A Systematic Review of Scholarship from 1999–2020

Analyzing Precision Agriculture Adoption across the Globe: A Systematic Review of Scholarship from 1999–2020

Novel Foods and Neophobia: Evidence from Greece, Cyprus, and Uganda

Analyzing Precision Agriculture Adoption Across the Globe: A Systematic Review of Scholarship from 1999 – 2020

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