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
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