Seeing Through the ‘Good Farmer's’ Eyes: Towards Developing an Understanding of the Social Symbolic Value of ‘Productivist’ Behaviour

By R. Burton. 2004

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Urban Studies

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The potential for collaborative agri-environment schemes in England: Can a well-designed collaborative approach address farmers’ concerns with current schemes? (2012, methodology): “In addition to the semi-structured interview, each interviewee was asked to provide likert-type scores against a series of different behaviours based on the principles of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) (Ajzen, 1985, 1991).”
Simplistic understandings of farmer motivations could undermine the environmental potential of the common agricultural policy (2020, background): “788 789 Utilising the diversity of farmer motivations for positive environmental change requires a 790 high level of knowledge transfer between farmers, extension services, social scientists and 791 policy-makers (Broch and Vedel, 2012; Burton, 2004b; Feola et al., 2015; Knierim et al., 792 2017).”
Entrepreneurship in the Agricultural Sector: A Literature Review and Future Research Opportunities (2018, neutral): “Burton (2004) points out that the ‘‘audience’’ for farmers is other farmers.”
Measuring private transaction costs of European agri-environmental schemes (2009, background): “…that the uptake of AESs can direct farmers into a new role which is more desirable by society, and as such can increase their social status (Hall et al. 2004), many farmers still attach a high symbolic value to production oriented activities and believe their status depends on this (Burton 2004).”
What drives farmers’ participation in EU agri-environmental schemes?: Results from a qualitative meta-analysis (2015, background): “Similarly, the work of Burton (2004), Burton and Paragahawewa (2011) and Emery and Franks (2012) suggested that some farmers are conscious of the possibility of exposure to the judgement and criticism of their peers, if their activities do not reflect the cultural norms or expectations of their…”
Payments for Ecosystem Services: Rife With Problems and Potential—For Transformation Towards Sustainability (2017, background): “Farmers often prefer conservation actions that visibly demonstrate success or productivity—e.g., fences are preferred to overgrown buffers (Burton, 2004) (despite this, unmanaged buffers are a common feature of PES).”
Good Farmers, Good Neighbours? The Role of Cultural Capital in Social Capital Development in a Scottish Farming Community (2011, background): “As an objectified symbol of farming ability, there is cultural and social capital to be gained from having better equipment than your neighbour (see Rogers 1983; Burton 2004).”
Leverage Points for Governing Agricultural Soils: A Review of Empirical Studies of European Farmers’ Decision-Making (2018, background): “More generally, farmers’ willingness to diversify and engage in non-farming activities, to go beyond traditional farming identities exemplified by the figure of ‘good farmer’ [28], thus overcoming path dependencies, enlarging individual option space, and possibly also contributing to making agricult”