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2. Interpreting orchardists' talk about their orchards: the good orchardists
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hunt, Lesley (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2010-12
- Published:
- New Zealand
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 192 Document Number: D03049
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- 27(4) : 415-426
- Notes:
- Analysis of perceptions of kiwi farmers. "...there may be different ways of being a good farmer."
3. Farmers' attitudes and landscape change: evidence from the abandonment of terraced cultivations on Lesvos, Greece
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kizos, Thanasis (author), Dalaka,Anastasia (author), and Petanidou, Theodora (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Greece
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 192 Document Number: D03058
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- 27 : 199-212
4. How organic farmers view their own practice: results from the Czech Republic
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Zagata, Lukas (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2010-09
- Published:
- Czech Republic
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 192 Document Number: D03061
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- 27(3) : 277-290
5. Farmers’ perceptions of coexistence between agriculture and a large scale coal seam gas development
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Huth, Neil I. (author), Cocks, Brett (author), Dalgliesh, Neal (author), Poulton, Perry L. (author), Marinoni, Oswald (author), and Navarro Garcia, Javier (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-03
- Published:
- Australia: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 6 Document Number: D10211
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- 35(1) : 99-115
- Notes:
- Article first online 13 June 2017, Via online journal., The Coal Seam Gas (CSG) extraction industry is developing rapidly within the Surat Basin in southern Queensland, Australia, with licenses already approved for tenements covering more than 24,000 km2. Much of this land is used for a broad range of agricultural purposes and the need for coexistence between the farm and gas industries has been the source of much conflict. Whilst much research has been undertaken into the environmental and economic impacts of CSG, little research has looked into the issues of coexistence between farmers and the CSG industry in the shared space that is a farm business, a home and a resource extraction network. We conducted three workshops with farmers from across a broad region undergoing CSG development to explore farmers’ perceptions of some of the issues arising from large scale land use change. Workshops explored the importance of place identity and landscape aesthetics for farmers, farmers’ acceptance and coping with change, and possible benefits from off-farm income. We found that farmers believed that place identity was not well understood by CSG staff from non-rural backgrounds and that farmers struggled to explain some concerns because of the different way they interpreted their landscape. Furthermore, high staff turnover, and the extensive use of contractors also impacted on communications. These factors were the cause of much frustration and farmers felt that this has led to severe impacts on mental health and wellbeing. Farmers felt that a change in culture within the CSG companies will be required if engagement with farmers is to improve and that efforts to employ local people in these communications was helping this. The workshops also identified a range of issues perceived by farmers arising from increased traffic volumes, impacts to mental health and wellbeing, place identity and loss of water resources for farmers. Finally, it was suggested that scientists and agricultural industry groups will need to work closely with farmers to develop understanding of these emerging issues and to develop solutions that are timely and relevant.
6. Engaging farmers in environmental management through a better understanding of behaviour
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mills, Jane (author), Gaskell, Peter (author), Ingram, Julie (author), Dwyer, Janet (author), Reed, Matt (author), Short, Christopher (author), and University of Gloucestershire
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-06-15
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Springer Nature
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: D11282
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- 34(2017) : 283-299
- Notes:
- 16 pages., via online journal, The United Kingdom’s approach to encouraging environmentally positive behaviour has been three-pronged, through voluntarism, incentives and regulation, and the balance between the approaches has fluctuated over time. Whilst financial incentives and regulatory approaches have been effective in achieving some environmental management behavioural change amongst farmers, ultimately these can be viewed as transient drivers without long-term sustainability. Increasingly, there is interest in ‘nudging’ managers towards voluntary environmentally friendly actions. This approach requires a good understanding of farmers’ willingness and ability to take up environmental activities and the influences on farmer behavioural change. The paper aims to provide insights from 60 qualitative farmer interviews undertaken for a research project into farmers’ willingness and ability to undertake environmental management, particularly focusing on social psychological insights. Furthermore, it explores farmers’ level of engagement with advice and support networks that foster a genuine interest, responsibility and a sense of personal and social norm to sustain high quality environmental outcomes. Two conceptual frameworks are presented for usefully exploring the complex set of inter-relationships that can influence farmers’ willingness to undertake environmental management practices. The research findings show how an in-depth understanding of farmer’s willingness and ability to adopt environmental management practices and their existing level of engagement with advice and support are necessary to develop appropriate engagement approaches to achieve sustained and durable environmental management.
7. Delivering too much, too little or off target—possible consequences of differences in perceptions on agricultural advisory services
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kraft, Jannica (author), Hockert, Jenny (author), Ljung, Magnus (author), Lundberg, Sara (author), and Lunner Kolstrup, Christina (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-04-01
- Published:
- United States: Springer Link
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12495
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- 39
- Notes:
- 15 pages, Advisory services are considered to play an important role in the development of competitiveness and sustainability in agriculture. Advisory services have been studied at policy level, structural level and within case studies, but there is still restricted knowledge about advisors’ and farmers’ view on advisory services in general. This paper presents the views of Swedish advisors and farmers on advisory services. In a survey-based study, perceptions of farm advisors and full-time farmers in commercial Swedish agriculture on advisory services were identified and statistically analysed, comparing differences between and within the groups. The results are structured around three main themes; motives for a farmer using or not using advisory services, preferred approach by the advisor and future demands on advisory services and their importance today. Possible consequences of differences in perceptions for on-farm service delivery were assessed. Similarities in perceptions on advisory services among advisors and farmers, were found in areas characterised by well-defined questions or production-related issues. Significant differences in perceptions of advisors and farmers emerged in less concrete areas and on topics connected to change, management and strategy. Consequences of discrepancies in perceptions are that advisors may deliver too much, too little or off target, especially when expectations on advisory services are not clearly expressed. A strong and proactive back-office supporting the advisors is needed to prevent these possible consequences.
8. Contextualizing farmers' attitudes towards genetically modified crops
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Jussaume, Raymond A., Jr. (author) and Kondoh, Kazumi (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2006-10
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25282
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- 23(3) : 341-352
9. Converting or not converting to organic farming in Austria: farmer types and their rationale
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Darnhofer, I. (author), Schneeberger, W. (author), and Freyer, B. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2005
- Published:
- Austria
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29060
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- 22 : 39-52
10. Environmental beliefs and farm practices of New Zealand farmers: contrasting pathways to sustainability
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fairweather, John R. (author) and Campbell, Hugh R. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2003
- Published:
- New Zealand
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C20464
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- 20(3) : 287-300