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Attitudes of agricultural producers on climate change

The purpose of this paper is to determine the existence of differences among attitudes toward climate change in a sample of agricultural producers. The study was conducted on a sample of 275 farm owners in Adriatic Croatia. Data were collected via an online survey from October 2020 to June 2021. The survey included several sets of questions. For the purposes of this article, questions about respondents’ sociodemographic characteristics and questions about attitudes toward climate change, as measured by the Likert scale, were included. The collected data were processed by frequency and cluster analysis. In the sample is predominantly male respondents (75.8%), aged 52 to 65 years (44.4%), and graduated from high school (58.2%). The majority of respondents have no formal education in agriculture (81.1%). For most holders, agriculture is a source of additional income (59.6%). Cluster analysis was performed and the existence of 2 clusters related to attitudes toward climate change was found. The larger group of 159 respondents was labeled Climate skeptics, while the smaller group of 116 respondents was labeled Climate aware. The larger cluster has neutral to negative attitudes about climate change, while the smaller cluster has a high level of agreement on the impact of climate change on agriculture. It is somewhat concerning that members of the larger cluster have a neutral to negative attitude toward climate change, which would imply that they do not see it as a threat to their business.

attitudes ; cluster analysis ; climate change

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