Farm Cooperation to Improve Sustainability

Andersson, Hans; Larsén, Karin; Lagerkvist, Carl Johan; Andersson, Chrisitian; Blad, Fredrik; Samuelsson, Johan; Skargren, Per

doi:10.1579/0044-7447-34.4.383

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“…If the resilience of graziers to climate variability is to be enhanced, their ability to learn collaboratively needs to be improved (Feldman et al 1996;Rayner et al 2005;Tschakert 2007). Building capacity through collaborative learning can be facilitated by government organisations charged with managing natural resources or industry based associations (Schusler et al 2003;Anderson et al 2005;Folke et al 2005). These bodies can support and facilitate collaborative learning through creating appropriate opportunities and employing active adaptive management approaches (Walters 1997;Curtis et al 2000;Folke et al 2002a, b;Holling 2004).…”

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The reluctance of resource-users to adopt seasonal climate forecasts to enhance resilience to climate variability on the rangelands

2010

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As the impacts of climate-change on resource-dependent industries manifest, there is a commensurate effort to identify and implement strategies to reduce them. Yet, even when useful knowledge and tools exist, there can be poor adoption of adaptation strategies. We examine the reasons behind sub-optimal adoption of seasonal climate forecasts by graziers for managing climate variability. We surveyed 100 graziers in north-east Queensland, Australia and examined the influence of adaptive capacity, resource-dependency and forecast-perception on uptake. Technical perceptions were not important. Strategic skills, environmental awareness and social capital were. Results suggest that social factors (but not technical factors) are significant. These insights are important for adaptation planning and for maximising the resilience of communities and industries dependent on climate-sensitive resources.

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The reluctance of resource-users to adopt seasonal climate forecasts to enhance resilience to climate variability on the rangelands

2010

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“…Partnership arrangements between farmers might be a way to secure the economic viability of their farms as well as to increase profitability. As educational researchers, we surmised that it may be interesting to analyze the perceptions of students about whether these traditions can be transferred to modern agriculture and livestock (e.g., Andersson et al 2005).…”

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Leaving the classroom: a didactic framework for education in environmental sciences

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García‐Vázquez

2010

Cult Stud of Sci Educ

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In Continuous Education curricula in Spain, the programs on sciences of the environment are aimed toward understandings of sustainability. Teaching practice rarely leaves the classroom for outdoor field studies. At the same time, teaching practice is generally focused on examples of how human activities are harmful for ecosystems. From a pedagogic point of view, it is less effective to teach environmental science with negative examples such as catastrophe, tragedy, and crisis. Rather, teaching environmental sciences and sustainable development might be focused on positive human-environment relationships, which is both important for the further development of students and educators. Within rural settings, there are many such examples of positive relationships that can be emphasized and integrated into the curriculum. In this article, we propose teaching environmental sciences through immersion in rural cultural life. We discuss how fieldwork serves as a learning methodology. When students are engaged through research with traditional cultural practices of environmental management, which is a part of the real and traditional culture of a region, they better understand how positive pedagogy instead of pedagogy structured around how not-to-do examples, can be used to stimulate the interactions between humans and the environment with their students. In this way, cultural goods serve as teaching resources in science and environmental education. What we present is authentic cases where adults involved in a course of Continuous Education explore 'environmentally-friendly' practices of traditional agriculture in Asturias (north of Spain), employing methodologies of cultural studies.

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“…As yet, there are (to the best of the author's knowledge) only few studies that have evaluated the effects of partnerships between farmers in the form of machinery‐sharing arrangements 4 . These studies have been conducted mainly as case studies (see for example Andersson et al, 2005). An advantage of using case farms is that the analysis can be conducted at a relatively detailed level (for example when calculating machinery and labor costs).…”

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Effects of machinery‐sharing arrangements on farm efficiency: evidence from Sweden

Larsén

2010

Agricultural Economics

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The effects of partnerships, in the form of machinery-sharing arrangements, on farm efficiency are analyzed using data for Swedish crop and livestock farms. Efficiency scores are obtained using Data Envelopment Analysis and the findings suggest that efficiency is, on average, higher among partnership farms compared to nonpartnership farms. Moreover, partnership farms that are characterized by the most extensive form of collaboration, that is, that share all machinery with one or several other farms, display the highest average efficiency. In a two-stage procedure in which efficiency determinants are analyzed in the second stage, the bootstrap procedures suggested by Simar and Wilson (2007) are applied in addition to the conventionally used Tobit regression. Participation in partnership arrangements is found to have a positive and statistically significant impact on farm efficiency. Copyright (c) 2010 International Association of Agricultural Economists.

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Farm Cooperation to Improve Sustainability

Cited by 32 publications

References 6 publications

The reluctance of resource-users to adopt seasonal climate forecasts to enhance resilience to climate variability on the rangelands

The reluctance of resource-users to adopt seasonal climate forecasts to enhance resilience to climate variability on the rangelands

Leaving the classroom: a didactic framework for education in environmental sciences

Effects of machinery‐sharing arrangements on farm efficiency: evidence from Sweden

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