Farm's social and economic factors and the adoption of agricultural best management practices

Teixeira Da Silva Siqueira Tiago, Galliano Danielle. 2019. Farm's social and economic factors and the adoption of agricultural best management practices. In : Book of Abstracts of the 70th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science. EAAP. Wageningen : Wageningen Academic Publishers, Résumé, p. 195. (EAAP Book of Abstracts, 25) ISBN 978-90-8686-339-6 Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science. 70, Ghent, Belgique, 26 Août 2019/30 Août 2019.

Résumé : Exploring the relationship between farm's social and economic factors and the adoption of agricultural best management practices is useful to tackling the environmental challenges faced by the animal production. This study used the data of 47,211 dairy farms from the 2010 French Agricultural Census to study the statistical correlations between these factors and the adoption of nine agricultural best management practices. First, we tested the internal factors related to the characteristics of the farmer, farm's structure, and governance. Second, we tested the external factors related with commercial and regulatory followed by spatial features. The results show that the internal factors like farm size and the contracting any agri-environmental insurance are negatively correlated with the adoption of most of the practices. Communication and information technologies are both positively or negatively correlated with the practices. In terms of governance, farms with individual and corporative legal status have statistically significant adoption behaviour. The share of familial annual working unit is negatively correlated with most of the practices. On the contrary, the diversification has an important positive correlation. Education, age, knowing the succession and the share of land under property have not significant correlation with most of the practices. In terms of external factors, the statistical analysis highlights the significant positive correlation of positioning on alternative markets, short circuits, organic products, or quality markets and the adoption of almost all practices. As the literature commonly suggests, the results show that environmental regulations also drive the adoption. The spatial environment of the farm and, more specifically, the environmental behaviour of neighbouring farms is highly correlated with the adoption. Finally, polices to promote locally farmer's experience exchange and to supporting diversification, high quality products and short circuits can further the adoption of agricultural best management practices reducing the environmental impacts of dairy farms.

Mots-clés libres : Drivers of change, Socio-economic aspects, Adoption, Innovation, Dairy farming

Auteurs et affiliations

• Teixeira Da Silva Siqueira Tiago, INRAE (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0003-0285-9903
• Galliano Danielle, INRAE (FRA)

Source : Cirad-Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/609566/)

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