Farmers’ behavioral drivers for adopting agroforestry practices – A study of Swedish agriculture using the theory of planned behavior

Gaëlle Leduc and Helena Hansson

No 321174, 96th Annual Conference, April 4-6, 2022, K U Leuven, Belgium from Agricultural Economics Society - AES

Abstract: Agroforestry has recently been recognized as a type of agriculture that provides ecosystem services such as biodiversity, carbon sequestration and water management. This paper studies farmers’ behavioral drivers with respect to their adoption of agroforestry practices, using survey data from Sweden. We extended the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to incorporate other behavioral factors, including business identity, conservation objectives and perceived labor constraints. These constructs were first extracted with factor analysis before estimating their impact on adoption with logit models. Of the factors analyzed, the results indicate that conservation objectives positively impact farmers’ adoption of agroforestry. The absence of significance of the other behavioral variables, including attitudes, perceived behavioral control and subjective norms, indicate that there might be some over reporting of significant TPB models in the farmers’ adoption literature.

Keywords: Environmental Economics and Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25
Date: 2022-04
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.321174

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