Sensemaking and the influencing factors on farmer decision-making

Hayden, Michael T.; Mattimoe, Ruth; Jack, Lisa

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.03.007

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“…However, they can contribute to the economic sustainability of less industrialized DPS by providing protein-rich feed sources, reducing the need for external feeds. Maximization of profit per unit of product is presented as a fundamental factor of the financial drivers that condition the succession and expansion of dairy farms (Hayden et al 2021). Hence, the application of integrated dairy-fodder systems, could ensure their continuity through the application of more sustainable and resilient farming practices (Shadbolt et al 2017).…”

Section: Integrated Assessment Of Key Dairy-fodder Crop Production Sy...mentioning

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Identification of representative dairy cattle and fodder crop production typologies at regional scale in Europe

Otálora

Dragoni

Prado

et al. 2022

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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European dairy production faces significant economic, environmental, and social sustainability challenges. Given the great diversity of dairy cattle production systems in Europe, region-specific concepts to improve environmental and socioeconomic sustainability are needed. Regionally integrated dairy cattle-crop systems emerge as a more resilient and sustainable alternative to highly specialized farming systems. Identifying different dairy cattle production typologies and their potential interactions with fodder crop production is presented as a step in transitioning to optimized agricultural systems. Currently existing typologies of integrated systems are often insufficient when characterizing structural, socioeconomic, and environmental components of farms. We fill this gap in the literature by identifying, describing, and comparing representative dairy cattle production system typologies and their interrelation with regional fodder crop production at the European regional scale. This is a necessary step to assess the scope for adapted mitigation and sustainability measures in the future. For this purpose, a multivariate statistical approach is applied. We show how different land-use practices, farm structure characteristics, socio-economic attributes, and emission intensities condition dairy production. Furthermore, the diversity of regional fodder crop production systems is demonstrated by analyzing their distribution in Europe. Together with identified typologies, varying degrees of regional specialization in milk production allow for identifying future strategies associated with the application of integrated systems in key European dairy regions. This study contributes to a better understanding of the existing milk production diversity in Europe and their relationship with regional fodder crop production. In addition, we discuss the benefits of integrated systems as a clear, viable, and resilient alternative to ongoing livestock intensification in the European context. Identifying interactions between components of integrated systems will facilitate decision-making, the design and implementation of measures to mitigate climate change, and the promotion of positive socio-economic and environmental interactions.

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Section: Integrated Assessment Of Key Dairy-fodder Crop Production Sy...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Identification of representative dairy cattle and fodder crop production typologies at regional scale in Europe

Otálora

Dragoni

Prado

et al. 2022

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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“…A significant body of research has been conducted on the relationship between farmers and the rural environment. Previous studies have paid attention to the extensive environmental content including land, water, eco-systems, and crop planting in different countries worldwide [9][10][11][12][13][14][15], and numerous scholars have provided their insights on farmers' environmental perceptions, attitudes, willingness, motivations, and decision making in different regions [16][17][18]. Moreover, it was found that a farmer's environmental cognition and attitude have a significant impact on their decision making and environmental behavior [19,20].…”

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“…In addition, various factors such as the economy, policies, labor loss, environmental regulations, investment level, and neighborhood behavior were frequently considered to influence farmers' environmental participation [21][22][23][24][25]. From a methodological perspective, both qualitative analysis [15,26] and quantitative strategies [17,27,28] based on questionnaires and interviews have been applied in research. In general, existing studies have mainly focused on environmental issues related to agricultural production but paid less attention to issues such as sewage and garbage that regard the rural living environment and which are closely related to farmers' wellbeing.…”

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What Drives Farmers to Participate in Rural Environmental Governance? Evidence from Villages in Sandu Town, Eastern China

Meng

Chen

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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Understanding farmers’ participation is crucial for achieving an effective impact on rural living environmental governance and promoting sustainable development. Taking Sandu Town in eastern China as a case study, in-depth semi-structured interviews with farmers, village cadres, and town managers were conducted in this study. Then, a conceptual framework incorporating comprehensive factors is presented to analyze the driving factors and mechanisms of farmer participation in rural domestic waste management. The results show that farmers’ participation in pro-environmental actions is a response to an integrated network of both internal and external factors. Life inertia, loss of personal interests, and objective conditions are the barriers to farmers deciding to participate. Meanwhile, environmental awareness can increase farmers’ internal motivations, and factors such as household benefits, social-cultural influences, and appraisal systems, including household possession protection, very low economic costs, better life experiences, demonstrations from society, “following the crowd”, peer pressure, and reward and criticism measures, are the external forces that mobilize farmers to participate in rural environmental governance. Policy recommendations are proposed based on the findings.

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“…For instance, whether farmers choose desalinated seawater for irrigation in south-east Spain was influenced by water quality, water price, crop diversity and previous experiences [33]. Strategic farm expansion decisions made by farmers was affected by both financial (e.g., non-farm income, profit) and non-financial factors (e.g., emotive reasons, social influence) [34]. Overall, drivers of a household's decision-making in different regions present similar features, including farmers' individual features, family operation condition, expected benefits and external social environment.…”

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Features and Socio-Economic Sustainability of Traditional Chestnut Forestry Landscape in China: A Case of Kuancheng County, Hebei Province

Min

Chen

et al. 2021

Land

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Since Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (IAHS) were launched by the FAO to protect the sustainable traditional agricultural systems around the world, their conservation has become a new difficult issue under the context of urbanization. Farmers in IAHS sites giving up small-scale traditional farming due to their low economic benefit and high labor intensity are considered as the main cause hindering effective conservation of these heritages. This study takes the Kuancheng traditional chestnut cultivation system (KTCCS) in northern China as a case to assess its economic and socio-cultural sustainability. Based on questionnaires and interviews, this study found that: the traditional ecological farming methods were still used by local farming households to plant chestnut trees; and most farmers support IAHS conservation. KTCCS performs economic and socio-cultural sustainability. For a household, the labor productivity of chestnut cultivation was 1.33 times that of their non-farm jobs because of the low labor input of chestnut cultivation. Farmers widely consider they live in a harmonious social environment but are lower than other households in economic status. Most farmers still lack an understanding of indigenous traditional knowledge and cultures. In the future, secondary and tertiary industries should be developed to provide farmers with employment opportunities in their hometowns for protecting KTCCS.

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Sensemaking and the influencing factors on farmer decision-making

Cited by 51 publications

References 60 publications

Identification of representative dairy cattle and fodder crop production typologies at regional scale in Europe

Identification of representative dairy cattle and fodder crop production typologies at regional scale in Europe

What Drives Farmers to Participate in Rural Environmental Governance? Evidence from Villages in Sandu Town, Eastern China

Features and Socio-Economic Sustainability of Traditional Chestnut Forestry Landscape in China: A Case of Kuancheng County, Hebei Province

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