@article{Jayasinghe-Mudalige:205948,
      recid = {205948},
      author = {Jayasinghe-Mudalige, Udith K. and Weersink, Alfons},
      title = {Factors Affecting the Adoption of Environmental Management  Systems by Crop and Livestock Farms in Canada},
      journal = {Sri Lankan Journal of Agricultural Economics},
      address = {2004},
      number = {1381-2016-115719},
      pages = {14},
      year = {2004},
      abstract = {This study examines, both qualitative and quantitatively,  the motivation for crop, livestock, and mixed (both crop  and livestock) farms in Canada to behave environmentally  responsibly by adopting Environmental Management Systems  (EMS) in the farm and the impact of a number of human  capital, financial, farm structure, and social  characteristics of the farmer and/or the
farm on this  behavior. It uses the data from 16,053 farms that responded  to the Farm Environmental Management Survey conducted by  Statistics Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in  2001, which collects information on implementation of EMS  in the areas manure, fertilizer, pesticide, water,  wildlife, grazing, and nutrient management in the farm.The  outcome of analysis show that mixed farms have the highest  adoption rates, in general, across the eight EMSs  considered in this study, while livestock-only farms have  the lowest. The most common EMSs used by all farms are  fertilizer and pesticide management plans with the whole  farm environmental plan as the least likely to be adopted.  The results based on a regression analysis suggest that  “young” and “rich” farmers with a “large” land extent tend  to adopt as
many as possible EMS, but the gender of the  farmer does not show a significant impact on this  behaviour. The level of urbanization and government  regulation also affects significantly the level of adoption  of EMSs. The analysis, as a whole, points out that even in  the absence of “mandatory” national level policies to  regulate agricultural farms in Canada, farmers show
a  tendency to adopt as much as possible EMS “voluntarily”,  because of their own interests in the farming environment  and/or motives originating from the market where they  operated with.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/205948},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.205948},
}