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Habitus and Interest in Agroforestry Practices in Missouri
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Flower,   Todd; Valdivia,   Corinne; Dorr,   Hilary.
This study analyzes the factors driving interest in two agroforestry practices, riparian buffers and forest farming. Because agroforestry is outside main stream commodity production in US agriculture, the purpose is to evaluate a framework to understand attitudes. The framework incorporates Pierre Bourdieu's notions of "habitus" and "field" along with individual economic and demographic characteristics of farm operators' traditionally used in adoption studies. Four attitudes are analyzed: disengagers, conservatives, lifestyle, and accumulators.  A Logit regression measures the effects of respondents' attitudes, and other internal and external factors to assess interest in each practice. The data used is from a household survey of 364 farm-operators from...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Adoption; Attitudes; Forest farming; Habitus; Interest; Riparian; Institutional and Behavioral Economics.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19279