creators_name: Canavari, Maurizio
creators_name: Cantore, Nicola
creators_name: Lombardi, Pamela
type: conference_item
datestamp: 2008-09-23
lastmod: 2009-08-20 14:38:13
metadata_visibility: show
title: Factors explaining farmers’ behaviours and intentions about agricultural methods of production. Organic vs. conventional comparison
ispublished: pub
subjects: 1organics
full_text_status: public
keywords: Organic farming, ethnocentrism, local origin.
abstract: We investigate the factors explaining behaviours and attitudes of farmers towards organic practices. Among a wide set of motivational, economic and environmental variables, we focus on those factors related to ethnocentrism of farmers and the importance of local origin labels. We find that ethnocentrism cannot explain neither the present status of farmers (organic vs. conventional) nor their future intentions about the adoption of agricultural methods of production. However, the absence of local origin labels is significantly affecting the choice of conventional farmers who do not convert to organic farming.
date: 2008
date_type: published
refereed: yes
citation: Canavari, Prof. Maurizio; Cantore, Dr. Nicola and Lombardi, Dr. Pamela (2008) Factors explaining farmers’ behaviours and intentions about agricultural methods of production. Organic vs. conventional comparison. Cultivating the Future Based on Science: 2nd Conference of the International Society of Organic Agriculture Research ISOFAR, Modena, Italy, June 18-20, 2008.
document_url: http://orgprints.org/12577/1/12577.pdf