Decision-support tools for sustainable landscapes: enhancing farmer engagement

Urquhart, Julie ORCID: 0000-0001-5000-4630, Goodenough, Alice ORCID: 0000-0003-0862-2894 and Nenia, Micha (2023) Decision-support tools for sustainable landscapes: enhancing farmer engagement. Project Report. CCRI.

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Abstract

This report shares the findings of research workshops commissioned by the SPF Landscape Decisions Programme to better understand farmers’ and farm advisors’ motivations for adopting decision support tools (DSTs) in the UK and to provide recommendations for how uptake of DSTs can be enhanced. The focus was on DSTs that can support improvements in farm productivity while at the same time reducing environmental impacts (referred to as e-DSTs throughout). A wide range of DSTs and e-DSTs are available addressing multiple needs, however their uptake by farmers and their advisors has been limited (Rose et al. 2017; Rose et al. 2016; Sohl & Claggett 2013) and there is a need to better understand how the evidence provided by these models, or the tools themselves, can better support farmers’ and their advisors’ decision-making.

Item Type:	Monograph (Project Report)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Decision-making; Decision support tools; DTS; Farm decisions
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > Countryside and Community Research Institute
Research Priority Areas:	Place, Environment and Community
Depositing User:	Bee Ray-Smallcalder
Date Deposited:	19 Jun 2023 10:57
Last Modified:	09 Oct 2023 11:29
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/12811

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