Behavioural factors affecting the adoption of sustainable farming practices: a policy-oriented review
By F. Dessart, J. Barreiro‐Hurlé, R. V. Bavel. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2019
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This paper reviews the findings from the last 20 years on the behavioural factors that influence farmers’ decisions to adopt environmentally sustainable practices. It also proposes policy options to increase adoption, based on these behavioural factors and embedded in the EU Common Agricultural Policy. Behavioural factors are grouped into three clusters, from more distal to more proximal: (i) dispositional factors; (ii) social factors and (iii) cognitive factors. Overall, the review demonstrates that considering behavioural factors enriches economic analyses of farmer decision-making, and can lead to more realistic and effective agri-environmental policies.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
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- Factors Influencing Adoption of Sustainable Farming Practices in Europe: A Systemic Review of Empirical Literature (2020, background): “[18] provided a policy-oriented review of behavioral factors influencing the adoption of various sustainable farming practices in Europe, such as organic farming and conservation agriculture.”
- Adoption of climate‐smart agriculture among smallholder farmers: Does farmer entrepreneurship matter? (2021, background): “Viewed this way, entrepreneurship is a cognitive trait related to the farmers’ decision-making styles (Dessart et al., 2019).”