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Title: | Measuring the environmental awareness of young farmers | Authors: | Kountios, Georgios Ragkos, Athanasios Papadavid, George Hadjimitsis, Diofantos G. |
Major Field of Science: | Agricultural Sciences | Field Category: | Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries | Keywords: | Agricultural policy;Education;Environmental policy;Farming practices;Sustainability | Issue Date: | Mar-2017 | DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2279984 | Abstract: | Young farmers in Europe, especially the beneficiaries of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) funding schemes, are considered as the ones who could ensure the sustainability of the European Model of Agriculture. Economic efficiency and competitiveness, aversion of depopulation of rural areas and environmental protection constitute some of the key objectives of the CAP and young farmers are expected to play a role to all of them. This study proposes a way of measuring the potential of young farmers to contribute to the latter objectives of the CAP by estimating their environmental attitudes. Data from a questionnaire survey of 492 Greek young farmers were used to design a latent construct measuring their environmental attitudes. The latent construct was designed by means of an Explanatory Factor Analysis (EFA) using the responses to a set of 12 Likert-scale items. The results the EFA yielded a latent construct with three factors related to "Environmental pollution and policies (EPP)", "Environmental factors and food quality (EFF)" and "Farming practices and the environment". These results were validated through a CFA where 8 items in total were categorized in the three factors (latent variables). The utilization of the latent construct for the effective implementation of CAP measures could ameliorate the relationships of agriculture and environment in general. | Description: | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2017, Volume 10444, Article number 104441G | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/12701 | Rights: | © 2017 SPIE. | Type: | Conference Papers | Affiliation : | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki International Hellenic University Agricultural Research Institute of Cyprus Cyprus University of Technology |
Publication Type: | Peer Reviewed |
Appears in Collections: | Δημοσιεύσεις σε συνέδρια /Conference papers or poster or presentation |
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