Drought adaptation in Austrian agriculture
Empirically Based Farmer Types
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6414453 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bernadette Kropf (0000-0002-2608-7939, BOKU University), Sebastian Seebauer (0000-0003-4592-9529, Joanneum Research), M Larcher (0000-0002-9850-0796, BOKU University), Stefan Vogel (0000-0001-8629-0659, BOKU University), Hermine Mitter (0000-0003-0799-9489, University of Graz, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1063-1081 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Agriculture and Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0889-048X • E-ISSN: 1572-8366 |
| Publisher | Springer Nature (Netherlands) (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10460-024-10661-5 |
| OpenAlex | W4405276691 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 61 |
Farmers perceive and appraise climate change, related risks and opportunities as well as adaptation measures differently. Such differences are not well understood and rarely considered in extension services, outreach activities and agricultural policies. We aim to develop empirically based farmer types, who differ in their socio-cognitive and emotional processes towards droughts, their expected drought impacts, their appraisal of drought adaptation measures, and their previous and intended implementation of such measures. The Model of Private Pro-Active Adaptation to Climate Change provides the theoretical foundation for a three-phase procedure of semi-structured interviews, a standardized survey and a qualitative workshop. The principal component analysis reveals eight socio-cognitive and emotional processes of relevance for forming the famer types of drought adaptation: perceived opportunities resulting from droughts, perceived effectiveness of drought adaptation measures, negative affect towards droughts, perceived work effort and perceived social approval of drought adaptation measures, fatalism, trust in public measures, and perceived self-efficacy. Cluster analyses of these processes yield four types of Austrian farmers. The social implementers perceive themselves as capable, and drought adaptation measures as effective, socially approved, and effortless. The unaffected profiteers have hardly been affected by droughts and perceive beneficial impacts due to a decline in precipitation. The trusting fearfuls have already experienced severe drought impacts and express intense negative affect towards droughts. The passive fatalists focus on avoidance and do neither trust in important others nor in public measures. The identified farmer types of drought adaptation may support the design of climate and agricultural policy instruments and of tailor-made education and communication programs, for instance to increase self-efficacy and reduce fatalism
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| Highly cited | No |