Pub Date : 2023-12-28DOI: 10.1080/14735903.2023.2293591
Ola Hall, Ibrahim Wahab, Sigrun Dahlin, Per Hillbur, Magnus Jirström, Ingrid Öborn
The study of yield gaps has become more complex, prompting the use of varied approaches to measure yields and a wider range of factors to explain these gaps. In the Global North, the focus is on pr...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-27DOI: 10.1080/14735903.2023.2293598
Amar Oukil, Ahmed Nourani, Ahmed Amin Soltani, Mohamed-Rachid Boulassel, Abdelaali Bencheikh
The aim of this paper is to investigate agricultural sustainability as a collective issue involving multiple rather than individual farms. Through the utilization of energy consumption as a proxy, ...
{"title":"Improving agricultural sustainability through farm mergers: an energy efficiency perspective","authors":"Amar Oukil, Ahmed Nourani, Ahmed Amin Soltani, Mohamed-Rachid Boulassel, Abdelaali Bencheikh","doi":"10.1080/14735903.2023.2293598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2023.2293598","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to investigate agricultural sustainability as a collective issue involving multiple rather than individual farms. Through the utilization of energy consumption as a proxy, ...","PeriodicalId":50342,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139056766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-09DOI: 10.1080/14735903.2023.2290415
Imane El Bakali, Abdelkader Ait El Mekki, Nassreddine Maatala, Rachid Harbouze
Facing the new challenges of sustainable development in the agricultural sector requires transitioning toward sustainable systems, such as conservation agriculture (CA) practices. Despite several d...
{"title":"A systematic review on the impact of incentives on the adoption of conservation agriculture: new guidelines for policymakers and researchers","authors":"Imane El Bakali, Abdelkader Ait El Mekki, Nassreddine Maatala, Rachid Harbouze","doi":"10.1080/14735903.2023.2290415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2023.2290415","url":null,"abstract":"Facing the new challenges of sustainable development in the agricultural sector requires transitioning toward sustainable systems, such as conservation agriculture (CA) practices. Despite several d...","PeriodicalId":50342,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138564074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-05DOI: 10.1080/14735903.2023.2287659
M. Navamuniyammal, R. Vidhya, M. Sivakumar, N. R. Shanker
Precision farming plays a vital role in suitable land location identification. Precision farming never considers microclimatic condition parameters for suitable land location identification. Farmer...
{"title":"Suitable area identification for mulberry plantation using query-based prescriptive analytics and microclimatic parameters","authors":"M. Navamuniyammal, R. Vidhya, M. Sivakumar, N. R. Shanker","doi":"10.1080/14735903.2023.2287659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2023.2287659","url":null,"abstract":"Precision farming plays a vital role in suitable land location identification. Precision farming never considers microclimatic condition parameters for suitable land location identification. Farmer...","PeriodicalId":50342,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138538713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-05DOI: 10.1080/14735903.2023.2262690
Sylvia Nabasumba, Margaret Najjingo Mangheni, Johnny Mugisha, Pamela Pali, Florence Birungi Kyazze, Prossy Isubikalu
Smallholder farmer participation in seed production ensures seed security among farming communities. Interventions that promote farmer investment in seed production, however, enroll any willing far...
{"title":"Unknotting typologies in smallholder farmers investing in seed potato production in South-Western Uganda","authors":"Sylvia Nabasumba, Margaret Najjingo Mangheni, Johnny Mugisha, Pamela Pali, Florence Birungi Kyazze, Prossy Isubikalu","doi":"10.1080/14735903.2023.2262690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2023.2262690","url":null,"abstract":"Smallholder farmer participation in seed production ensures seed security among farming communities. Interventions that promote farmer investment in seed production, however, enroll any willing far...","PeriodicalId":50342,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138538747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-02DOI: 10.1080/14735903.2023.2285161
Mahlet D. Awoke, Johannes Hafner, Anthony A. Kimaro, Marcos A. Lana, Katharina Löhr, Stefan Sieber
Land degradation continues to be a major concern for agriculture in developing countries, including Tanzania. Agroforestry is one solution that benefits food production and reduces land degradation...
{"title":"Development of an integrated assessment framework for agroforestry technologies: assessing sustainability, barriers, and impacts in the semi-arid region of Dodoma, Tanzania","authors":"Mahlet D. Awoke, Johannes Hafner, Anthony A. Kimaro, Marcos A. Lana, Katharina Löhr, Stefan Sieber","doi":"10.1080/14735903.2023.2285161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2023.2285161","url":null,"abstract":"Land degradation continues to be a major concern for agriculture in developing countries, including Tanzania. Agroforestry is one solution that benefits food production and reduces land degradation...","PeriodicalId":50342,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138538727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1080/14735903.2023.2275719
Zhengtao He
The emission of greenhouse gases is one of the main reasons for climate change, which comes from partially the agricultural production activities, especially livestock and poultry-scale breeding. M...
{"title":"Appropriate carbon emission from large-scale breeding based on a binary analysis framework of external environmental costs and resource losses","authors":"Zhengtao He","doi":"10.1080/14735903.2023.2275719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2023.2275719","url":null,"abstract":"The emission of greenhouse gases is one of the main reasons for climate change, which comes from partially the agricultural production activities, especially livestock and poultry-scale breeding. M...","PeriodicalId":50342,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138538753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-19DOI: 10.1080/14735903.2023.2270257
Keotshephile Kashe, Brian M. Sindel, Paul Kristiansen, Robin Jessop
Conservation agriculture (CA) is being promoted as an energy efficient and cost-effective farming system that conserves soil and water and improves crop yields. Adoption of this farming system can ...
{"title":"Opportunities and challenges for conservation agriculture in Botswana","authors":"Keotshephile Kashe, Brian M. Sindel, Paul Kristiansen, Robin Jessop","doi":"10.1080/14735903.2023.2270257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2023.2270257","url":null,"abstract":"Conservation agriculture (CA) is being promoted as an energy efficient and cost-effective farming system that conserves soil and water and improves crop yields. Adoption of this farming system can ...","PeriodicalId":50342,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138538714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1080/14735903.2023.2270222
Thanh Mai Ha, Gordana Manevska-Tasevska, Ortrud Jäck, Martin Weih, Helena Hansson
The adoption of intercropping, a sustainable agricultural technology, is limited in Europe. This paper investigates factors driving the intention to intercrop in Sweden. Factors included in the analysis are participation in private certification schemes, interactions with peers and agricultural advisors, attitude, knowledge, innovativeness, perceived intercropping attributes and perceived behavioural control. The first two reflect potential socioeconomic determinants and the last four are possible behavioural drivers. For the first time, the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and diffusion of innovation theory were integrated to understand farmers’ adoption of sustainable farming practices like intercropping . Structural equation modelling was applied to understand the behavioural drivers, whereas logit regression was employed to identify the socioeconomic determinant of adoption intention. The paper highlights the important role of knowledge in fostering intercropping adoption. Knowledge was associated with innovativeness (B = 0.18, p < 0.001) and influenced perceived attribute (B = 0.395, p < 0.001) and attitude (B = 0.268, p < 0.001) towards intercropping. Sufficient knowledge strengthens farmers’ confidence in implementing intercropping and subsequently facilitates adoption intention (B = 0.287, p < 0.05). Participation in private certification schemes and interactions with peers, a bonding social capital, also stimulates adoption intention (β = 0.91 and β = 0.70, p < 0.05). Policy implications to support intercropping were discussed.
作为一种可持续的农业技术，间作的采用在欧洲是有限的。本文调查了瑞典作物间作意向的驱动因素。分析中包括的因素包括参与私人认证计划、与同行和农业顾问的互动、态度、知识、创新、可感知的间作属性和可感知的行为控制。前两项反映了潜在的社会经济决定因素，后四项是可能的行为驱动因素。首次将计划行为理论(TPB)和创新扩散理论结合起来，以理解农民采用间作等可持续农业实践的原因。结构方程模型用于理解行为驱动因素，而logit回归用于确定收养意愿的社会经济决定因素。本文强调了知识在促进间作采用中的重要作用。知识与间作的创新性(B = 0.18, p < 0.001)、感知属性(B = 0.395, p < 0.001)和态度(B = 0.268, p < 0.001)相关。充分的知识增强了农民实施间作的信心，进而促进了采用意愿(B = 0.287, p < 0.05)。参与私人认证计划和与同伴的互动(一种结合社会资本)也会刺激采用意愿(β = 0.91和β = 0.70, p < 0.05)。讨论了支持间作的政策含义。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1080/14735903.2023.2270254
Xuan Wang, Dušan Drabik, Junbiao Zhang
Farmers’ adoption of green agricultural technologies (GATs) could reduce the negative environmental impacts of traditional agriculture in China. Despite the benefits of GATs, their adoption rate has not been high. While previous studies have examined the information and communication technologies that influence the adoption of GATs, most have selected only one of the GATs and have not distinguished between public and private channels of knowledge acquisition. In this paper, based on a sample of 732 rural households from Hubei Province, we used a negative binomial model to examine the role of knowledge acquisition channels on GATs adoption. Overall, we found that radio and the government (through its face-to-face channels) are positively associated with farmers’ adoption of GATs; however, farmers adopted more GATs when they had acquired knowledge from the government than from radio. A possible explanation and a policy implication is that direct communication with farmers and practical demonstration of the benefits of GATs are preferred to passive reception of information.
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