Compliance of agricultural practices used in family farms with those recommended in organic farming

Guiné, Raquel; Costa, Cristina Amaro Da

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Compliance of agricultural practices used in family farms with those recommended in organic farming

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dc.contributor.author	Guiné, Raquel
dc.contributor.author	Costa, Cristina Amaro Da
dc.date.accessioned	2018-10-31T14:00:29Z
dc.date.available	2018-10-31T14:00:29Z
dc.date.issued	2018
dc.description.abstract	This research intended to evaluate to what extent the managers in family farms tend to adopt practices of organic farming and identify the possible factors that might be associated with those choices. For that, a survey was undertaken in Portuguese and Spanish municipalities. The participation, by direct interview, was voluntary and 125 valid responses were obtained distributed as: 30 in Viseu (PT), 30 in Braga (PT), 30 in Barcelos (PT), 16 in Pontevedra (SP) and 19 in Padrón (SP). For the treatment of the data, basic descriptive statistics tools were used in combination with crosstabs and chi square tests. Also tree classifications were conducted following the Classification and Regression Trees algorithm. In all tests a level of significance of 5% was considered. The results identified factors that influenced the behaviour of the managers in family farms towards an approximation to organic farming practices, which were the level of education and municipality, found as major determinants of the level of compliance with organic farming practices. Also, other factors like age or gender influence, although to a lesser extent, the compliance with organic farming. These results were the same for the chi- square tests or the tree classification analysis, and they thus indicate that improvements could be achieved towards a more expressive adoption of organic farming practices if planned to target the influential factors identified.	pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citation	Guiné, R.P.F. & Costa, C.A. (2018). Compliance of agricultural practices used in family farms with those recommended in organic farming. Open Agriculture, 3 (1), 368-377. doi:10.1515/opag-2018-0041.	pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi	10.1515/opag-2018-0041	pt_PT
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/5269
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
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dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Organic agriculture	pt_PT
dc.subject	Cultural practices	pt_PT
dc.subject	Classification	pt_PT
dc.subject	Family agriculture	pt_PT
dc.subject	Soil preparation	pt_PT
dc.title	Compliance of agricultural practices used in family farms with those recommended in organic farming	pt_PT
dc.type	journal article
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oaire.citation.endPage	377	pt_PT
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oaire.citation.startPage	368	pt_PT
oaire.citation.title	Open Agriculture	pt_PT
oaire.citation.volume	3	pt_PT
person.familyName	de Pinho Ferreira Guiné
person.familyName	Amaro da Costa
person.givenName	Raquel
person.givenName	Cristina Isabel
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