TY - JOUR
T1 - Winegrowers’ decision-making
T2 - A pan-European perspective on pesticide use and inter-row management
AU - Chen, Yang
AU - Herrera, Rafael Alcalá
AU - Benitez, Emilio
AU - Hoffmann, Christoph
AU - Möth, Stefan
AU - Paredes, Daniel
AU - Plaas, Elke
AU - Popescu, Daniela
AU - Rascher, Silke
AU - Rusch, Adrien
AU - Sandor, Mignon
AU - Tolle, Pauline
AU - Willemen, L.
AU - Winter, Silvia
AU - Schwarz, N.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by the research project SECBIVIT which was funded through the 2017–2018 Belmont Forum and BiodivERsA joint call for research proposals, under the BiodivScen ERA-Net COFUND programme, with the funding organisations: Agencia Estatal de Investigación ( Ministerio de ciencia e innovación /Spain), Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (grant number I 4025-B32 ), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF/Germany) through VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH, DLR Projektträger, French National Research Agency (ANR) , Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) , National Science Foundation (Grant #1850943 ) and Romanian Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) . We would like to thank all winegrowers who participated in the focus groups, online questionnaires and personal interviews and the extension services who distributed our online questionnaire through their e-mail distribution list (DLR-Rheinpfalz).
Funding Information:
This research was funded by the research project SECBIVIT which was funded through the 2017–2018 Belmont Forum and BiodivERsA joint call for research proposals, under the BiodivScen ERA-Net COFUND programme, with the funding organisations: Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Ministerio de ciencia e innovación/Spain), Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (grant number I 4025-B32), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF/Germany) through VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH, DLR Projektträger, French National Research Agency (ANR), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), National Science Foundation (Grant #1850943) and Romanian Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI). We would like to thank all winegrowers who participated in the focus groups, online questionnaires and personal interviews and the extension services who distributed our online questionnaire through their e-mail distribution list (DLR-Rheinpfalz).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors
PY - 2022/8
Y1 - 2022/8
N2 - European viticultural landscapes not only support a significant share of rural livelihoods and cultural traditions, but also conserve biodiversity and sustain various ecosystem services. Winegrowers' practices of inter-row management (including whether to have vegetation in the inter-rows, type of vegetation, duration of vegetation cover, and soil tillage) and pesticide use (including herbicides in the inter-rows, fungicides, insecticides, and pheromone dispensers as an alternative) can affect these services. This study aims to understand winegrowers' decision-making driven by their personal characteristics, attitudes and beliefs towards viticultural practices, physical properties of vineyards, and farm management characteristics in five European winegrowing regions. These include Palatinate in Germany, Leithaberg in Austria, Tarnave in Romania, Bordeaux in France, and Montilla-Moriles in Spain. Based on a questionnaire survey, we constructed decision trees for each behaviour per case study as well as in a generic European model. We found factors that best explain how winegrowers manage their inter-rows and use pesticides. Results showed that not only do behaviours of winegrowers vary drastically across the case studies, but also the factors that explain most behaviours: farmers' attitudes and beliefs and farm management characteristics. This implies the importance of attitudes and beliefs – which are under-researched as compared to other factors – in understanding farmers’ behaviour. With the driving factors found to vary per case study, our results also imply the need for locally-adapted policies. Furthermore, our results suggest that the effects of climate change on European viticultural landscapes concern not only shifting production regions and changes in yields, but also changing pressure of pests and diseases. Any long-term behavioural change requires efforts from many stakeholders.
AB - European viticultural landscapes not only support a significant share of rural livelihoods and cultural traditions, but also conserve biodiversity and sustain various ecosystem services. Winegrowers' practices of inter-row management (including whether to have vegetation in the inter-rows, type of vegetation, duration of vegetation cover, and soil tillage) and pesticide use (including herbicides in the inter-rows, fungicides, insecticides, and pheromone dispensers as an alternative) can affect these services. This study aims to understand winegrowers' decision-making driven by their personal characteristics, attitudes and beliefs towards viticultural practices, physical properties of vineyards, and farm management characteristics in five European winegrowing regions. These include Palatinate in Germany, Leithaberg in Austria, Tarnave in Romania, Bordeaux in France, and Montilla-Moriles in Spain. Based on a questionnaire survey, we constructed decision trees for each behaviour per case study as well as in a generic European model. We found factors that best explain how winegrowers manage their inter-rows and use pesticides. Results showed that not only do behaviours of winegrowers vary drastically across the case studies, but also the factors that explain most behaviours: farmers' attitudes and beliefs and farm management characteristics. This implies the importance of attitudes and beliefs – which are under-researched as compared to other factors – in understanding farmers’ behaviour. With the driving factors found to vary per case study, our results also imply the need for locally-adapted policies. Furthermore, our results suggest that the effects of climate change on European viticultural landscapes concern not only shifting production regions and changes in yields, but also changing pressure of pests and diseases. Any long-term behavioural change requires efforts from many stakeholders.
KW - Attitude
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Ecosystem services
KW - Farmers' behaviour
KW - Viticulture
KW - UT-Hybrid-D
KW - ITC-ISI-JOURNAL-ARTICLE
KW - ITC-HYBRID
U2 - 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.05.021
DO - 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.05.021
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85131717059
SN - 0743-0167
VL - 94
SP - 37
EP - 53
JO - Journal of rural studies
JF - Journal of rural studies
ER -