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The impact of networks on the innovative and financial performance of more entrepreneurial versus less entrepreneurial farmers in West Java, Indonesia
Publication date: Available online 27 September 2019Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesAuthor(s): Etriya Etriya, Victor E. Scholten, Emiel F.M. Wubben, S.W.F. (Onno) OmtaAbstractFarmers may vary in their response to or anticipation of agrifood market changes, which probably depends on their entrepreneurial degree and networks. This paper aims to investigate the effects of farmers’ entrepreneurial degree and network content (i.e., business ties, technology ties, and network heterogeneity) on farm performance (i.e., innovative performance and financial performance). The data set was gathered through a survey...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - September 28, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research

In the starting blocks for smart agriculture: The internet as a source of knowledge in transitional agriculture
Publication date: Available online 24 September 2019Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesAuthor(s): Krzysztof Janc, Konrad Czapiewski, Marcin WójcikAbstractThe work described here has sought to define the role of the Internet in knowledge acquisition among Polish farmers, as well as the diversity characterising their professional activity conducted online. Relevant discussion is in this way broadened to reflect the conditioning underpinning smart agriculture, most especially in the context of states emerging from a period of economic transition. Particular attention is here paid to the factor of choice of sou...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - September 25, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research

Motivations for the use of sustainable intensification practices among smallholder farmers in Tanzania and Malawi
Publication date: Available online 29 August 2019Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesAuthor(s): Isaac Jonathan Jambo, Jeroen C.J. Groot, Katrien Descheemaeker, Mateete Bekunda, Pablo TittonellAbstractAgricultural techniques and technologies that could foster sustainable intensification of farming (hereafter: SI practices) can originate from existing farm practices, from the adoption of externally suggested new practices, or from an adaptation of existing or new practices. The rate at which farmers use SI practices is often low and influenced by on-farm biophysical and socio-economic conditions. There is a nar...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - August 30, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research

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Publication date: Available online 22 August 2019Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesAuthor(s): (Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences)
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - August 23, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research

The political robot – The structural consequences of automated milking systems (AMS) in Norway
Publication date: Available online 4 August 2019Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesAuthor(s): Jostein Vik, Egil Petter Stræte, Bjørn Gunnar Hansen, Torfinn NærlandAbstractIn this article, the aim is to explore how social aspects of the adoption and expansion of milking robots in Norwegian dairy farming are related to the political and structural changes in the sector. To explore the relationship between the implementation of automated milking systems (AMS) and structural developments, we used a qualitative methodology building on data from interviews with farmers, policy documents, statistics, and seconda...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - August 4, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research

What explains citizens’ valuations of and attitudes towards agricultural biodiversity? Results of an exploratory survey of Dutch students
We report on the findings of an exploratory survey aimed at uncovering the above mechanisms among a specific subgroup of Dutch citizens: students. We conclude that (a) students appreciate the intrinsic and aesthetic values of agrobiodiversity to some extent, but not its instrumental value; (b) valuations correlate with students’ fundamental values; (c) students’ attitudes correlate strongly to how they value agrobiodiversity. We recommend follow-up research among a more representative sample of Dutch citizens, with the aims to further test the mechanisms, assess valuations of agrobiodiversity by Dutch citizens in gener...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - July 10, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research

Supporting and practising digital innovation with advisers in smart farming
Publication date: Available online 15 May 2019Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesAuthor(s): Margaret Ayre, Vivienne Mc Collum, Warwick Waters, Peter Samson, Anthony Curro, Ruth Nettle, Jana-Axinja Paschen, Barbara King, Nicole ReicheltAbstractThe promise of technology development in agriculture is well publicised with some claiming that digital disruption will transform the way farming and food production is done in the future. For farm advisers, engaging in smart farming involves managing the proliferation of new forms of information, new knowledge and networks and new technical devices that produce digitis...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - May 16, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research

Farmers and their data: An examination of farmers’ reluctance to share their data through the lens of the laws impacting smart farming
Publication date: Available online 8 May 2019Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesAuthor(s): Leanne Wiseman, Jay Sanderson, Airong Zhang, Emma JakkuAbstractThe absence of legal and regulatory frameworks around the collection, sharing and use of agricultural data contributes to the range of challenges currently being faced by farmers considering adoption of smart farming technologies. Many laws potentially influence the ownership, control of and access to data, in this paper we examine the attitudes of farmers to the collection, control, sharing and use of their farm data. Australian agriculture and the attitud...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - May 9, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research

Searching for meaning: Co-constructing ontologies with stakeholders for smarter search engines in agriculture
Publication date: Available online 7 May 2019Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesAuthor(s): Julie Ingram, Pete GaskellAbstractA key challenge in agriculture, as in other disciplines, is taking a large body of research-based knowledge and making it meaningful to the user-audience. Computer aided search engines potentially can offer widespread access to large repositories with relevant reports and publications, however the usefulness of such systems for the practitioners who are dealing with multi-faceted and context-related issues is often limited. Building search engines with user-centered ontologies offer a ...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - May 8, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research

City adjustments as the main factor of success of urban and peri-urban farms–empirical evidence from the Ruhr metropolis
Publication date: Available online 1 May 2019Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesAuthor(s): Wojciech Sroka, Bernd Pölling, Marcus MergenthalerAbstractEconomic viability of urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) is the key requirement for additional social, environmental, and landscape functions within urban and peri-urban areas. However the rapid progress of urbanization drives the loss of farmlands to industrial, residential and other urban uses, and the decline of farms and population working in agriculture. Hence, the literature highlights the need to popularize new ideas and strategies of preserving and ...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - May 2, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research

Conceptualising the DAIS: Implications of the ‘Digitalisation of Agricultural Innovation Systems’ on technology and policy at multiple levels
Publication date: Available online 2 May 2019Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesAuthor(s): Simon J. Fielke, Robert Garrard, Emma Jakku, Aysha Fleming, Leanne Wiseman, Bruce M. Taylor (Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences)
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - May 2, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research

Key questions on the use of big data in farming: An activity theory approach
Publication date: Available online 29 April 2019Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesAuthor(s): Evagelos D. Lioutas, Chrysanthi Charatsari, Giuseppe La Rocca, Marcello De RosaAbstractBig data represent a pioneering development in the field of agriculture. By producing intuition, intelligence, and insights, these data have the potential to recast conventional process-driven agriculture, plotting the course for a smarter, data-driven farming. However, many open issues about the use of big data in agriculture remain unanswered. In this work, conceptualizing smart agricultural systems as cyber-physical-social syst...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - April 30, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research

Making sense in the cloud: Farm advisory services in a smart farming future
Publication date: Available online 29 April 2019Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesAuthor(s): Callum Eastwood, Margaret Ayre, Ruth Nettle, Brian Dela RueAbstractIncreased use of data from smart farming technologies presents an opportunity for farmers to better understand their farm systems, and thereby improve outcomes for productivity, sustainability, and animal care. A research gap exists regarding the impact of data-driven smart farming on the relationship between advisors and farmers, and advisors and farm data/technology. Therefore, we asked: how are farmers and advisors interacting with data-driven sma...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - April 29, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research

Configuring the new digital landscape in western Canadian agriculture
Publication date: Available online 18 April 2019Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesAuthor(s): Peter W.B. Phillips, Jo-Anne Relf-Eckstein, Graeme Jobe, Brian WixtedAbstractDigital technologies are working to transform the global agricultural system. Farmers and firms are creating, adapting and adopting a range of new hardware, software, mobile apps, sensor technologies and big data applications, which is working to disrupt established structures within the farm machinery and associated data sectors. Focusing just on the extension of precision technologies to agriculture, this paper maps the competitive landsc...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - April 18, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research

Looking through a responsible innovation lens at uneven engagements with digital farming
This article extends social science research on big data and data platforms through a focus on agriculture, which has received relatively less attention than other sectors like health. In this paper, I use a responsible innovation framework to move attention to the social and ethical dimensions of big data “upstream,” to decision-making in the very selection of agricultural data and the building of its infrastructures. I draw on original empirical material from qualitative interviews with North American designers and engineers to make visible and analyze the normative aspects of their technical decisions. Social actors...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - April 8, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research