The Change towards the Integration of Agri-environmental Practices (CIAEP) into farmer’s practices system: An affective, cognitive, and behavioural process
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Abstract
This article contributes to the research characterising agri-environmental practices (AEPs) adoption processes. Although the adoption of AEPs by farmers has long been recognised as a process, existing conceptualisations vary significantly and face theoretical and operational limitations that limit the ability of research to accurately describe and understand these processes. In this paper, we propose a new conceptualisation of AEPs adoption processes, supported by psychological theories and data from a longitudinal case study of 20 farmers in Quebec, Canada. We develop an empirically informed operational framework for analysing AEP adoption processes: the Change towards the Integration of Agri-environmental Practices (CIAEP) framework. The CIAEP focuses on the internal processes farmers undergo to integrate AEPs, framing integration as a process involving cognitive, affective, and behavioural changes, including the acceptance of the loss of previous practices. It defines a seven-stage process with associated indicators, ranging from no intention to change to the integration of an AEP into a farming practices system. By including affective dimensions alongside established cognitive and behavioural components, the CIAEP enriches existing conceptualisations of AEP adoption processes. It introduces new stages that explain how farmers decide to commit to adopting AEPs and defines integration as the technical, affective, and cognitive mastery of an AEP, offering a fresh perspective on the concept of adoption. This article outlines the development of the CIAEP framework, its application in the case study, and provides two examples of its use based on partial longitudinal data. Finally, we discuss the benefits, limitations, and research opportunities presented by the CIAEP framework. • This research presents the ‘Change towards Integration of Agri-environmental Practices' (CIAEP) framework. • An operational analysis framework to study the adoption process. • 7 stages described by behavioural, cognitive and affective indicators. • A validation with data from a six-year longitudinal study of 20 farmers.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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