Manifestations and underlying drivers of agricultural land use change in Europe

J Van Vliet, HLF de Groot, P Rietveld… - Landscape and Urban …, 2015 - Elsevier
Agricultural land use in Europe has changed considerably in the last decades. However, our
understanding of agricultural land use changes, especially changes in land use intensity, is …

Typologies of European farmers: approaches, methods and research gaps

B Bartkowski, C Schüßler, B Müller - Regional Environmental Change, 2022 - Springer
Understanding farmers' behaviour and their different responses to environmental change,
institutional change and policy interventions is important to facilitate the understanding of the …

Soil enzyme activities, microbial communities, and carbon and nitrogen availability in organic agroecosystems across an intensively-managed agricultural landscape

TM Bowles, V Acosta-Martínez, F Calderón… - Soil Biology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Variability in the activity and composition of soil microbial communities may have important
implications for the suite of microbially-derived ecosystem functions upon which agricultural …

Barriers to the development of organic farming: A polish case study

W Łuczka, S Kalinowski - Agriculture, 2020 - mdpi.com
The main purpose of this paper is to explore farmers' opinions on the barriers to the
development of organic farming. A survey was carried out with 262 Polish organic farmers in …

[LIBRO][B] The sociology of food and agriculture

M Carolan - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
In this second edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture, students are provided with a
substantially revised and updated introductory text to this emergent field. The book begins …

Evidence that organic farming promotes pest control

L Muneret, M Mitchell, V Seufert, S Aviron… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Ecological intensification of agro-ecosystems, based on the optimization of ecological
functions such as biological pest control, to replace agrochemical inputs is a promising route …

Creating culturally sustainable agri-environmental schemes

RJF Burton, UH Paragahawewa - Journal of Rural Studies, 2011 - Elsevier
Evidence is emerging from across Europe that contemporary agri-environmental schemes
are having only limited, if any, influence on farmers' long-term attitudes towards the …

Triggering change: Towards a conceptualisation of major change processes in farm decision-making

LA Sutherland, RJF Burton, J Ingram… - Journal of environmental …, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a broad conceptualisation of major change in farm level
trajectories. We argue that as a result of path dependency, major changes in farming …

Transition pathways towards a robust ecologization of agriculture and the need for system redesign. Cases from organic farming and IPM

C Lamine - Journal of rural studies, 2011 - Elsevier
The growing criticism of intensive agricultural practices that lead to a deterioration of natural
resources and a decrease of biodiversity has progressively led to more environmental …

Of organic farmers and 'good farmers': Changing habitus in rural England

LA Sutherland, I Darnhofer - Journal of Rural Studies, 2012 - Elsevier
In recent years, numerous studies have identified the importance of cultural constructions of
'good farming'to farming practice. In this paper, we develop the'good farming'construct …