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2. Beyond Participation – Building Farmer Confidence: Experience from Sub-Saharan Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ward, Andrew (author), Minja, Eliaineny (author), Blackie, Malcolm (author), Edward-Jones, Gareth (author), and NR International University of Bangor
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007-12-01
- Published:
- United Kingdom: SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10966
- Journal Title:
- Outlook on Agriculture
- Journal Title Details:
- 36(4) : 259-266
- Notes:
- 7 pages, via online journal, Despite large investments in research to modernize African agriculture, enabling it to fulfil its potential, traditional agriculture still predominates. To many, the lack of adoption of knowledge generated through agricultural research is due either to the inexplicable functioning of the farmer's decision-making process or to a set of issues so complex that it is not clear how they could ever be overcome. This paper reviews a project in Sub-Saharan Africa in which bean pest management became a tool through which communities were empowered to address a wide range of development issues. This paper suggests that what needs to be altered substantially is the way scientists view and interact with the poor.
3. Decision-making process of commercial farmers in Zimbabwe
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- McClymont, Douglas (author) and Agricura (Pvt.) Ltd
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1984
- Published:
- Zimbabwe: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: D07780
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Administration
- Journal Title Details:
- 17 (3): 149-162
4. 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.
5. Factors Affecting Farmers' Participation in Agri-environmental Measures: A Northern Italian Perspective
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Defrancesco, Edi (author), Gatto, Paola (author), Runge, Ford (author), and Trestini, Samuele (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA: Blackwell Publishing
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26404
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-9552.2007.00134.x
- Notes:
- OnlineEarly
6. Factors influencing farmers' willingness to participate in water allocation trading. A case study in southern Spain
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Giannoccaro, Giacomo (author), Castillo, Manuela (author), and Berbel, Julio (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- Spain
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: D08758
- Journal Title:
- Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 14(1)
- Notes:
- 13 pages.