TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing a socio-psychological model explaining farmers’ income diversification in response to groundwater scarcity in Iran
AU - Hashemi, Seyyed Mahmoud
AU - Kinzig, Ann
AU - Eakin, Hallie
AU - Abbott, Joshua K.
AU - Sedaghat, Reza
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Asia?Pacific Human Development Academic Fellowship and the ASU School of Life Sciences. The views expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the United Nations (UN), including the UNDP, or the UN?s member states. Charles Perrings, the journal?s editor, and reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper. Part of the questionnaire used in this study was developed in collaboration with Mohammad Reza Farzaneh and Ali Bagheri; they, along with the Iran Water Policy Research Institute, also helped with data collection.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Income diversification is an essential livelihood strategy for farmers facing unsustainable groundwater withdrawals. This paper develops a general structural equation model that analyses socio-psychological factors that affect the intentions to adopt and the actual adoption of income diversification in response to groundwater scarcity. The developed model includes affective attitudes, instrumental attitudes and self-efficacy. This model explains 55% and 36% of the variance in intentions to pursue and the actual pursuit of income diversification among farmers in the Rafsanjan Plain, Iran, respectively. These results can inform policies for promoting income diversification, and have implications for sustaining farmers’ livelihoods and groundwater resources.
AB - Income diversification is an essential livelihood strategy for farmers facing unsustainable groundwater withdrawals. This paper develops a general structural equation model that analyses socio-psychological factors that affect the intentions to adopt and the actual adoption of income diversification in response to groundwater scarcity. The developed model includes affective attitudes, instrumental attitudes and self-efficacy. This model explains 55% and 36% of the variance in intentions to pursue and the actual pursuit of income diversification among farmers in the Rafsanjan Plain, Iran, respectively. These results can inform policies for promoting income diversification, and have implications for sustaining farmers’ livelihoods and groundwater resources.
KW - Affective attitude
KW - Rafsanjan Plain
KW - income-diversification scale
KW - instrumental attitude
KW - theory of planned behaviour
KW - water conservation
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U2 - 10.1080/07900627.2021.1879029
DO - 10.1080/07900627.2021.1879029
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85103368985
SN - 0790-0627
VL - 38
SP - 283
EP - 305
JO - International Journal of Water Resources Development
JF - International Journal of Water Resources Development
IS - 2
ER -