Les enjeux cognitifs du défi environnemental dans les exploitations agricoles

Rivaud, Audrey; Mathé, Jacques

doi:10.4000/economierurale.3026

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“…But the three groups differ according to their participation in professional meetings (meeting): type 2 participates in more than seven meetings in 5 years on average, whereas type 3 participates in less than three meetings on average. This is in line with what we said earlier about the key role of the acquisition of information, and confirms that collective exchanges allow sharing of expertise and are useful for farmers to learn about agro-environmental innovations (Rivaud and Mathé 2011).…”

Section: Professional Networksupporting

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Why wheat farmers could reduce chemical inputs: evidence from social, economic, and agronomic analysis

Nave

Jacquet

Jeuffroy

2013

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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Though European policies recommend pesticide reduction, most farmers still manage their crops with a high level of chemical inputs, notably in arable crop-based systems. Factors influencing farmers' practices and the reasons why they do not adopt alternative techniques are not well-known. Actual reports on that topic are based on monodisciplinary analyses either in agronomy, sociology, or economics, whereas farmers' motives are most probably manifold. Therefore, we surveyed winter wheat agricultural practices to understand the factors influencing the choice of crop management plans implemented by farmers. We interviewed 71 farmers in the French Department of Eure-et-Loir. Results revealed three main types of practices depending on inputs and wheat yield: (1) 29 % of farmers use low levels of inputs and get low yield, (2) 38 % of farmers use medium levels of inputs and get high yield, (3) 33 % of farmers use high levels of inputs and get medium yield. We found that the medium-input type is the most efficient with better economic results whatever the wheat price. On the other hand, the high-input type has a lower economic performance. We showed that farm profile, individual motives, and social commitments explain the level of input use. High-input practices are often implemented by farmers who have less family labor availability and who rarely join extension groups, whereas low-input practices are conducted by farmers bearing civic responsibilities and showing environmental awareness. The novelty of our study is to use a multidisciplinary analysis to take into account agronomic, social, and economic factors

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Section: Professional Networksupporting

confidence: 91%

Why wheat farmers could reduce chemical inputs: evidence from social, economic, and agronomic analysis

Nave

Jacquet

Jeuffroy

2013

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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“…Responding to an objective of satisfaction ('satisficing choice', ibid) -and not maximisation -EIs are introduced as a result of an event challenging the conventional practices of the firm, such as the evolution of regulation, demand, or technology. The adoption of EIs involves cognitive changes in the firm (Dupeuble, 2005;Rivaud and Mathé, 2011) that are all the more important when practices are radically new.…”

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Drivers of environmental trajectories: a case study of Poitou-Charentes companies

Ugaglia

Ferru

2017

IJSD

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Empirical studies face difficulties verifying the Porter and van der Linde (1995) hypothesis about the drivers of environmental innovations (EIs) and, even more so, the drivers in the firms' environmental trajectories. In this context, we propose a dynamic analysis of these drivers. From original data based on interviews about around 400 EIs realised by companies in the Poitou-Charentes region, we first describe the limited role of regulation as a driver of firms' environmental trajectory and reveal the link between the drivers and the precise nature of the EIs. Finally, we shed light on a dominant environmental trajectory for companies that is blocked by cognitive constraints and in which the supply determinants are the main driver along this trajectory.

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“…Ces routines correspondent à des règles de fonctionnement, des solutions connues et influencent ce qu'une firme est capable de faire en guidant et coordonnant les comportements individuels. À la lecture des auteurs évolutionnistes, on comprend alors que la modification des routines et l'adoption d'IE impliquent des changements cognitifs dans l'entreprise (Dupeuble, 2005 ;Lazaric, 2010 ;Rivaud et Mathé, 2011) qui sont d'autant plus importants que les pratiques sont radicalement nouvelles.…”

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Stratégies et trajectoires environnementales des établissements de Poitou-Charentes

Ugaglia¹,

Ferru²,

Guimond³

2016

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Les enjeux cognitifs du défi environnemental dans les exploitations agricoles

Cited by 10 publications

References 23 publications

Why wheat farmers could reduce chemical inputs: evidence from social, economic, and agronomic analysis

Why wheat farmers could reduce chemical inputs: evidence from social, economic, and agronomic analysis

Drivers of environmental trajectories: a case study of Poitou-Charentes companies

Stratégies et trajectoires environnementales des établissements de Poitou-Charentes

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