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Identifying farmer typologies based on their views towards greenhouse gas emissions

Úna Sinnott, James Breen, Cathal Buckley, Lorraine Balaine, Dominika Król

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability · 2025

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Summary

Widespread adoption of technologies for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission mitigation is required to meet GHG reduction targets while maintaining levels of food production. In this context, improving our understanding of factors influencing behavioural change, including farmer views towards GHG mitigation, is required. Based on a representative sample of 526 farmers across various farm systems in the Republic of Ireland, this study takes an exploratory research focus and investigates the views of farmers towards their farm level GHG emissions by conducting a typology analysis that groups like-minded farmers together. Farmer views are first assessed on five-point Likert scales using nine statements. Principal component analysis (PCA) is applied to survey responses, revealing three components: on

Subject
Climate & greenhouse gas mitigation
Source type
Peer-reviewed study
System type
Other
DOI
10.1080/14735903.2025.2548095
Catalogue ID
SNmp4zkio9-skvwnd
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