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| Lapple, Doris; Kelley, Hugh. |
| Whilst the adoption of agricultural techniques has received considerable attention in the literature, the ability and willingness of potential adopters to change their current farming system is often overlooked. This paper is concerned with the intention of conventional farmers to convert to organic farming by using the social-psychology theory of planned behaviour. Drivers and barriers of conversion to organic farming are identified by applying a belief based concept, which is confirmed using principal component analysis. In addition, accounting for heterogeneity regarding farmers‟ environmental attitudes masks considerable differences, notably at intention, attitudes and control perceptions. Overall, results reveal that conversion is indeed affected by... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Organic farming; Theory of planned behaviour; Principal component analysis; Heterogeneity; Production Economics. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91949 |
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| Lapple, Doris; Donnellan, Trevor. |
| The adoption and possible abandonment of organic farming has yet received little attention in the literature. As time plays an important role in explaining farming decisions, a dynamic econometric framework, namely duration analysis, is used. The probability of entry to and exit of the organic drystock sector is modeled considering a wide range of economic and non‐economic factors. Organic support payments emerge as important driving factor of adoption over time. The empirical results also highlight the importance of environmental and risk attitudes, farming experience as well as influence of other organic farmers on the probability to adopt organic farming; whereas decisions to abandon organic farming appear to be mainly driven by economic and structural... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Adoption; Abandonment; Organic farming; Duration analysis; Economic and non‐economic factors.; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51062 |
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