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The Determinants of Farmer’s Intended Behaviour Towards the Adoption of Energy Crops in Southern Spain: an Application of the Classification Tree-Method

Bio-based and Applied Economics

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Title The Determinants of Farmer’s Intended Behaviour Towards the Adoption of Energy Crops in Southern Spain: an Application of the Classification Tree-Method
 
Creator Giannoccaro, Giacomo
Berbel, Julio
 
Subject farmer behaviour
energy crops
classification tree
 
Description Despite growing interest in biomass over the last number of years, bio-energy derived from biomass currently contributes to a very small share of the total Spanish energy market. How individual farmers choose to respond to the opportunities presented by these relatively novel crops has still received scarce attention. In this paper, farmers’ intentions towards the adoption of energy crops are analyzed. A survey of 201 farm- households in Southern Spain is explored using a non-parametric approach based on classification tree algorithms. The main outcome of this analysis is that off-farm labour factor affects the adoption of energy crops on farm, together with farm specializations, size of owned land and farmer’s education. While the study confirms the relevance of the main determinants available from the literature, need for further research is emphasised.
 
Publisher Firenze University Press
 
Date 2012-09-16
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/view/3225
10.13128/BAE-10554
 
Source Bio-based and Applied Economics; Vol. 1 No. 2 (2012); 199-212
2280-6172
2280-6180
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/view/3225/3225