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Organic Eprints
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| País: |
Germany
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| Título: |
Organic farmers’ motivations and challenges for adopting conservation agriculture in Europe
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| Autores: |
Casagrande, Marion
Peigne, Joséphine
Payet, Vincent
Mäder, Paul
Sans, F. Xavier
Blanco-Moreno, José Manuel
Antichi, Daniele
Barberi, Paolo
Beeckmann, Annelies
Bigongiali, Federica
Cooper, Julia
Dierauer, Hansueli
Gascoyne, Kate
Grosse, Meike
Heß, Jürgen
Kranzler, Andreas
Luik, Anne
Peetsmann, Elen
Surböck, Andreas
Willekens, Koen
David, Christophe
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| Data: |
2015-10-17
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| Ano: |
2015
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| Palavras-chave: |
"Organics" in general
Soil tillage
Environmental aspects
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| Resumo: |
Conservation agriculture and organic farming are considered as promising sustainable agricultural system for producing food, while minimizing environmental impacts. Despite an increasing number of experimental data on organic conservation practices and various studies dealing with the adoption of conservation agriculture by farmers, none of those studies have specifically addressed conservation agriculture adoption under organic conditions in Europe. We carried out a survey with 159 farmers located in 10 European countries. These farmers had applied at least two of the following conservation practices: (i) no-tillage, (ii) reduced tillage and (iii) green manures. Each farmer assessed socio-economic, agronomic and environmental motivations and problems for each conservation practice, using a Likert scale. For each conservation practice, we ranked motivations and problems and carried out a principal component analysis, followed by clustering to identify groups of farmers. Independent of the conservation practices, the most important motivations were related to soil fertility preservation and challenges were mainly linked to crop management, machinery and yield performances. For all conservation practices, we identify three groups of farmers that shared the same type of motivations and challenges across Europe: “soil conservationists,” “agro-technically challenged farmers,” and “indifferent farmers.” Soil conservationist farmers were strongly motivated by soil preservation and minimizing environmental impacts. Agro-technically challenged farmers mainly expressed agronomic problems and challenges. There were no clear effects of location or farm characteristics explaining these attitudes, but they depended on farmers’ environmental concerns and beliefs. The study demonstrated that research priorities should address agronomic problems caused by the adoption of conservation practices in organic farming, weed control in particular.
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Journal paper
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http://orgprints.org/29478/1/casagrande-etal-2015-OrganicAgriculture-p1-15-OrgFarmersMotivations.pdf
Casagrande, Marion; Peigne, Joséphine; Payet, Vincent; Mäder, Paul; Sans, F. Xavier; Blanco-Moreno, José Manuel; Antichi, Daniele; Barberi, Paolo; Beeckmann, Annelies; Bigongiali, Federica; Cooper, Julia; Dierauer, Hansueli; Gascoyne, Kate; Grosse, Meike; Heß, Jürgen; Kranzler, Andreas; Luik, Anne; Peetsmann, Elen; Surböck, Andreas; Willekens, Koen and David, Christophe (2015) Organic farmers’ motivations and challenges for adopting conservation agriculture in Europe. Organic Agriculture, online, pp. 1-15.
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| Relação: |
http://orgprints.org/29478/
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application/pdf
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