Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/12701
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
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