What drive the environmental performance of dairy farms?

Teixeira Da Silva Siqueira Tiago, Galliano Danielle. 2019. What drive the environmental performance of dairy farms?. In : Book of Abstracts of the 70th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science. EAAP. Wageningen : Wageningen Academic Publishers, Résumé, p. 145. (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.

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Résumé : Understanding what drive the farms' environmental performance can help the animal sector to deal with global socio-ecological issues. We analysed the data of 47,211 dairy farms from the 2010 French Agricultural Census using ordered probit models to study the correlation between farm's internal and external factors and farms' environmental performance. The environmental performances are approached by an individual score based on the adoption of nine agri-environmental practices. First, we tested the role of farm's internal factors related to the characteristics of the farmer, farm's structure, and governance. Second, we tested the role of external factors related with commercial and regulatory followed by spatial features. The results show that internal factors like contracting agri-environmental insurance, the share of family working force, the size and the corporate legal status of the farm are negatively correlated with the environmental performance. The age of the farmer, the share of land in property, the use of specialized technical software and farm diversification are positively correlated with the score. The knowing of the successor, the educational level and the gender of the farmer is not correlated with the score. In terms of external factors, the statistical analysis highlights the strong positive correlation of positioning on alternative markets, short circuits, organic products, or quality markets with the environmental score. As the literature commonly suggests, our results also show that environmental regulations are positively correlated with the environmental performance. The results also show the central role of the spatial environment of the farm and, more specifically, the environmental score of neighbouring farms as a major driver of the environmental performance. Finally, polices to promote locally farmer's experience exchange, to supporting diversification, high quality products and short circuits can bust the environmental performance of dairy farms.

Mots-clés libres : Dairy farming systems, Adoption, Practices, Drivers of change

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/609565/)

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