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Understanding the relationship between the organizational characteristics of a farm and its environmental performance is essential to support the agro-ecological transition of farms. This is even more important as very few studies on the subject have been undertaken and as there is a growing diversity of organizational forms of farms that differ from the traditional family model. This paper proposes a comprehensively integrated approach of dairy farms in Brazil. A case study of six archetypes of farms with contrasted organizational characteristics is developed to explore the relations between, on the one hand, farms’ organizational structure and governance, and on the other hand, the adoption of agri-environmental practices. Results show that the adoption of agri-environmental practices varies across the wide range of farm’s organizational forms—from the family to the industrial models. Farms with limited internal resources depend more specifically on external sectoral or territorial resources to implement environmental practices. If the environment is conducive to the creation of incentives and coordination mechanisms underlying learning processes, farms will adopt agri-environmental practices, regardless of they are organized. The creation of local cooperatives, farmer’s networks and universities extension programs can strengthen farmers’ absorption, adaptation and transformation capacities and boost the adoption of environmental practices. Finally, considering farms as heterogeneous organizational forms in terms of human capital, resources, market, and informational access is essential to accelerate the agroecological transition.
Tiago Siqueira; Danielle Galliano; Geneviève Nguyen; Ferenc Bánkuti. Organizational Forms and Agri-Environmental Practices: The Case of Brazilian Dairy Farms. Sustainability 2021, 13, 3762 .
AMA StyleTiago Siqueira, Danielle Galliano, Geneviève Nguyen, Ferenc Bánkuti. Organizational Forms and Agri-Environmental Practices: The Case of Brazilian Dairy Farms. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (7):3762.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTiago Siqueira; Danielle Galliano; Geneviève Nguyen; Ferenc Bánkuti. 2021. "Organizational Forms and Agri-Environmental Practices: The Case of Brazilian Dairy Farms." Sustainability 13, no. 7: 3762.
Understanding the processes related to the adoption of best environmental practices is an important challenge to support the transition to more sustainable agriculture. Our paper aims to contribute to this issue by analyzing the relation between farm's organizational design and environmental performance. We used data of 47562 dairy farms from the 2010 French Agricultural Census and employed econometric analysis to study the correlation between farm's internal and external factors and environmental performance. The environmental performance is approached by a score based on the adoption of nine best management practices. The results show that while the internal, structural and managerial resources, through which farms can increase their absorptive capacity, play an important role, external factors, particularly the type of market environment in which farms operate, play a key role in environmental performance. The results also highlight the central role of farms' spatial environment and, more specifically, the strong correlation with the environmental performance of the neighboring dairy farms. Finally, policies to promote locally farmer's experience exchanges, to supporting diversification, high quality products and short circuits can bust the environmental performance of dairy sector.
Danielle Galliano; Tiago T.S. Siqueira. Organizational design and environmental performance: The case of French dairy farms. Journal of Environmental Management 2020, 278, 111408 .
AMA StyleDanielle Galliano, Tiago T.S. Siqueira. Organizational design and environmental performance: The case of French dairy farms. Journal of Environmental Management. 2020; 278 ():111408.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDanielle Galliano; Tiago T.S. Siqueira. 2020. "Organizational design and environmental performance: The case of French dairy farms." Journal of Environmental Management 278, no. : 111408.