Winegrowers’ decision-making: A pan-European perspective on pesticide use and inter-row management

European viticultural landscapes not only support a significant share of rural livelihoods and cultural traditions, but also conserve biodiversity sustain various ecosystem services. Winegrowers' practices inter-row management (including whether to have vegetation in the inter-rows, type vegetation, duration cover, soil tillage) pesticide use herbicides fungicides, insecticides, pheromone dispensers as an alternative) can affect these This study aims understand winegrowers' decision-making driven by their personal characteristics, attitudes beliefs towards practices, physical properties vineyards, farm characteristics five winegrowing regions. These include Palatinate Germany, Leithaberg Austria, Tarnave Romania, Bordeaux France, Montilla-Moriles Spain. Based on questionnaire survey, we constructed decision trees for each behaviour per case well generic model. We found factors that best explain how winegrowers manage inter-rows pesticides. Results showed do behaviours vary drastically across studies, most behaviours: farmers' characteristics. implies importance – which are under-researched compared other understanding farmers’ behaviour. With driving study, our results imply need locally-adapted policies. Furthermore, suggest effects climate change concern shifting production regions changes yields, changing pressure pests diseases. Any long-term behavioural requires efforts from many stakeholders.