Reflections on farmers’ social networks: a means for sustainable agricultural development?

Chaudhuri, Sriroop; Roy, Mimi; McDonald, Louis M.; Emendack, Yves

doi:10.1007/s10668-020-00762-6

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“…The possible explanations are the contract commitment signed by farmers whose farms are adjacent and have neighborly mutual assistance and social supervision attributes. It is also an essential part of the relationship network and social capital [ 39 ]. If the farmer conceals, misreports, and delays reporting dead pig information and then implement mishandling attributes such as discard actual selling, the neighboring farmers are more prone to bear the highest risk of pathogen exposure.…”

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Influence of contract commitment system in reducing information asymmetry, and prevention and control of livestock epidemics: Evidence from pig farmers in China

Zhang

Yao

et al. 2021

One Health

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The prevention and control of infectious diseases in livestock is of great significance for maintaining the food and health of people. The main bottleneck in preventing and controlling the epidemic is asymmetrical information between farmers and the livestock department regarding dead livestock. In this pursuit, China has levied the contract commitment system to ensure farmers to cooperate with livestock departments, cooperative organizations, and other farmers by proper contract in order to combat the livestock epidemic by reporting the status of dead livestock on time. Based on the data of 514 pig farmers in Hebei, Henan, and Hubei, this research employed the Heckprobit model to explore the contract commitment system's effect on pig farmers' behavior in reporting the status of dead livestock. The outcome showed that the contract commitment system encouraged the farmers to report dead pig information promptly. Moreover, modern information channels such as mobile phones or the Internet further enhanced the contract commitment system's effectiveness. Besides, the impacts of the contract commitment system on different scale farmers are found substantially heterogeneous. Based on the empirical findings, it is confirmed that the contract commitment system should not exclude government regulatory measures and economic incentive policies. It is a useful remedy to encourage farmers to report dead livestock information on time and supports in preventing and controlling livestock epidemics. Additionally, the government should enhance and strengthen the contract commitment system, establish the channels and platforms required to deliver necessary information about epidemics, and implement differentiated policy programs for different scale farmers. More importantly, these countermeasures can also provide important guidelines for other developing countries, facing livestock epidemics.

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Influence of contract commitment system in reducing information asymmetry, and prevention and control of livestock epidemics: Evidence from pig farmers in China

Zhang

Yao

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One Health

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“…Farmers' social networks have become essential to increase the adoption rate of sustainable agricultural practices (Chaudhuri et al, 2020). Agricultural information and knowledge are often transferred through social interactions (Pratiwi & Suzuki, 2017).…”

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“…According to Monge, Hartwich, and Halgin (2008) social networks affect the diffusion of innovations through social learning, joint evaluation, social influence, and collective action processes. Farmers' social networks have been found to play a critical role in farmers' inclination towards the adoption of SAPs (Chaudhuri, Roy, McDonald, & Emendack, 2020;Guo & Marchand, 2019). This paper presents a protocol of a scoping review that aims to provide a qualitative synthesis of the state of knowledge related to the influence of farmers' social networks on the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices.…”

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The Effect of Farmers Social Networks on Sustainable Agricultural Practices Adoption: A Scoping Review Protocol

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Dabuo

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International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Research

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“…Facilitation of social/collective learning : Functional social networks among water users’ communities must be identified for dissemination of new knowledge/tools/techniques (Pratiwi and Suzuki 2017). Rural water users are more comfortable adopting RWSS models already tried and tested by others, and benefitted thereof, than learning them at workshops/training programmes (top-down approach) (Chaudhuri et al 2020b). However, this demands a thorough understanding of the mode of linkages among the water users within a community/network, and factors that facilitate (or limit) opportunities.…”

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Water for All (Har Ghar Jal): Rural Water Supply Services (RWSS) in India (2013–2018), Challenges and Opportunities

Chaudhuri

Roy

McDonald

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International Journal of Rural Management

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Sustainable delivery of drinking water of adequate quantity/quality sits at the core of rural development paradigms worldwide. The overarching goal of this study was to assess operational performance of rural water supply services (RWSS) in India to help authorities understand challenges/shortfalls vis-à-vis opportunities. Data on habitation-level coverage, aggregated by states between 2013 and 2018, were obtained from the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) database, against two water supply norms, namely, 40 lpcd and 55 lpcd (litres per capita per day). Results indicate that certain states are faring better (providing full coverage to over 90% habitations) while others are lagging (e.g., the north-eastern region, and Kerala and Karnataka in the South, for both norms). Several states yet fail to provide 55 lpcd to over half of their rural habitations. Overall, RWSS is marked by high spatial heterogeneity, inequality and recurrent slip-backs (decline in year-to-year habitation coverage) that thwart the basic motto of NRDWP— Har Ghar Jal (Water for All). Ground-level experience reveals a mismatch between theoretical systems’ output (40 lpcd and 55 lpcd) and on-site delivery, and highly intermittent services. Moreover, frequent scheme failure/abandonment adds to systems’ uncertainties and water users’ plight. A multitude of operational/organisational flaws, associated with government waterworks bodies, at different levels of systems’ hierarchy, limit RWSS operational performance. To that end, the concluding section argues for a demand-driven RWSS model (bottom-up systems’ governance) and highlights the core tenets of the same that call for integration of environmental, social, cultural, ethical and political perspectives in RWSS systems’ thinking/design.

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Reflections on farmers’ social networks: a means for sustainable agricultural development?

Cited by 69 publications

References 80 publications

Influence of contract commitment system in reducing information asymmetry, and prevention and control of livestock epidemics: Evidence from pig farmers in China

Influence of contract commitment system in reducing information asymmetry, and prevention and control of livestock epidemics: Evidence from pig farmers in China

The Effect of Farmers Social Networks on Sustainable Agricultural Practices Adoption: A Scoping Review Protocol

Water for All (Har Ghar Jal): Rural Water Supply Services (RWSS) in India (2013–2018), Challenges and Opportunities

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