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Biblioteca(s): | Embrapa Pecuária Sudeste.
Data corrente: | 28/01/2021
Data da última atualização: | 09/01/2024
Autoria: | VINHOLIS, M. de M. B.; SAES, M. S. M.; CARRER, M. J.; SOUZA FILHO, H. M. de.
Afiliação: | MARCELA DE MELLO BRANDAO VINHOLIS, CPPSE; Maria Sylvia Macchione Saes, USP; Marcelo José Carrer, UFSCAR; Hildo Meirelles de Souza Filho, UFSCAR.
Título: | The effect of meso-institutions on adoption of sustainable agricultural technology: a case study of the Brazilian Low Carbon Agriculture Plan.
Ano de publicação: | 2021
Fonte/Imprenta: | Journal of Cleaner Production, v. 280, part 1, jan. 2021, 124334.
Páginas: | 11 p.
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124334
Idioma: | Inglês
Conteúdo: | Macro and micro institutions have received considerable attention from institutional theory in the analysis of organizational performance. The role played by meso-institutions has hardly been addressed. This article draws on recent institutionalist approaches which introduce meso-institutions as a third layer of the analysis. Meso-institutions on the adoption of environmental technologies is the focus of attention. The Brazilian policy on climate change offered an opportunity for this investigation. Different meso-institutions were created or adjusted to accelerate and monitor the actions and targets of the Brazilian Low Carbon Agriculture Plan. The effects of these meso-institutions on both farmers? decision to adopt Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems (ICLS) and farms performance were estimated through a Simultaneous Equation System (SES). The analyses were based on a survey sample of 175 farmers from the state of S~ao Paulo, Brazil. Our main results corroborate the hypothesis that meso-institutions are of utmost importance to improve resource utilization by the farmers. Economic incentives, risk reduction, capacity building and knowledge sharing provided by meso-institutions had significant impacts on the probability of adopting ICLS and on farms performance. These results suggest that meso-institutions can foster a favorable environment for the adoption of more sustainable technologies at farm-level. The paper innovates in the use of SES to investigate the impacts of meso-institutions on resource allocation decisions of Brazilian cattle farmers. Our empirical findings can contribute to the research agenda on meso-institutions and sustainable technology adoption.
Palavras-Chave: | Crop livestock system; ILPF; Meso institution; Resource utilization; Sustainable production.
Categoria do assunto: | X Pesquisa, Tecnologia e Engenharia
Registro original: | Embrapa Pecuária Sudeste (CPPSE)
Exemplares: | CPPSE - (25251-1) - UPC - AP - DD - PROCI-2021.00001 - VIN - 2021.00001 - DIS