Food Focus
Food Focus
Michael von Massow
Farmers Are People Too - And We Need to Work to Understand Them Better
30 minutes Posted Sep 29, 2021 at 12:40 am.
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Farmers are people too. Economists traditionally assume that farmers will behave rationally and maximize profits. The truth is there are many things that influence farmer decisions in adopting new practices, products, or technologies. That's the point Dr Ellen Goddard made in her Presidential Address to the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society. I this episode, Mike talks to Ellen about why we need to spend as much time thinking about producer behaviour as we do consumer behaviour.