A major obstacle for promoting sustainable (e.g. ecological) consumer behaviors is people’s negative attitude towards these. We tested the potential of a persuasion technique for improving these attitudes. We propose that cueing ecological behaviors people usually engage in, increases the accessibility of previously performed ecological behavior in the memory. As several theories suggest attitu...

Guide to readers This paper is organized into 3 main sections: An introductory section provides a history and context for this study. In the first section, a common language or conceptual framework is developed to relate agriculture and food security issues using existing models and frameworks from the literature. The Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) approach is used as the carrier framework wherei...

This descriptive survey research was undertaken to study the factors affecting attitudes of agricultural faculty members towards nanotechnology. The statistical population of this study consisted of the agricultural faculty members in Iran (N=225). A sample of 144 persons was selected by using the stratified random sampling method. Data collected using a mailed questionnaire that was validated ...

This paper draws upon survey evidence from Spain to examine the causal relationship between attitudes towards science and attitudes towards Genetically Modified (GM) food. It employs structural equation modelling and explores this association by using sub-samples made of regional groups that have GM agriculture. Our results suggest specific behavioural mechanisms in explaining GM consumer attit...

Nowadays, with an increasing world population, the production of bio-resources becomes a strategic sector for supporting any sustainable society [...]