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AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS
卷 73, 期 2, 页码 99-108出版社
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DOI: 10.1007/s10457-008-9114-9
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decision-making; development programs; social dimensions; persistence; Bahia; Brazil
Agroforestry is a key land use in the development of ecological corridors in tropical rainforests biomes. This research tested the social dimensions of agroforestry adoption and maintenance in the Atlantic rainforest of Southern Bahia, Brazil. A quasi-experiment research design compared a group of farmers who participated in an agroforestry development program with a group of similar farmers who were not participants in the program. The effects of the program on the participants' self-efficacy, attitudes and intentions to adopt or maintain agroforestry were tested. The effects of socio-economic factors and attitudes were also compared to self-efficacy in terms of farmers' intentions to adopt or maintain agroforestry. Results indicate that the program neither raised nor lowered the farmers' attitudes, self-efficacy or intentions to adopt or maintain agroforestry. However, multiple regression and logistic model analyses indicate that perceived behavioral control, attitudes about conservation and available labor contributed most significantly to farmers' intentions to adopt or maintain agroforestry. Overall, perceived behavioral control proved to have the most significant correlation with farmers' intentions to adopt or maintain agroforestry. Therefore, agroforestry development programs could benefit from focusing on farmers' perceived control of certain behaviors to enhance the persistence of agroforestry practices.
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