Sustainable Agriculture: Relationship between Knowledge and Attitude among University Students

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dc.creatorGabela, Carlos Duran (TTU)
dc.creatorTrejos, Bernardo
dc.creatorJaramillo, Pablo Lamino (TTU)
dc.creatorBoren-Alpizar, Amy (TTU)
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-10T19:38:11Z
dc.date.available2023-03-10T19:38:11Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en_US
dc.description.abstractSustainable agriculture (SA) has emerged as an alternative to feeding an increasing global population. Several frameworks have been used in SA research. This study proposes understanding SA under five components: environment, economy, society, resilience, and persistence. The decision-making process for adopting SA is determined by several factors, such as knowledge and attitudes. Both constructs play a decisive role in SA’s development, a field where university students are called to be leaders and decision-makers. Despite the increase in the body of SA literature, little is known about SA in Latin America. This research aimed to analyze university students’ attitudes and knowledge of SA and the relationship between both constructs. A completely structured questionnaire was designed and distributed online. A Likert-type scale was used for attitude and multiple-choice questions for knowledge. It was found that, among participants (n = 374), the majority had a high level of attitude (71.9%) and a moderate level of knowledge (62.1%) of SA. Participants’ attitudes towards SA were positive, regardless of gender (p = 0.17) and perceived knowledge does not predict measured knowledge (R2 = 0.074; p < 0.001). Moreover, a low positive relationship was found between attitude and knowledge (rs = 0.252; p = 0.000). Further research should focus on analyzing other factors that could affect attitude and knowledge of SA.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDurán Gabela C, Trejos B, Lamiño Jaramillo P, Boren-Alpízar A. Sustainable Agriculture: Relationship between Knowledge and Attitude among University Students. Sustainability. 2022; 14(23):15523. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142315523en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/su142315523
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2346/91749
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.subjectagricultural sustainabilityen_US
dc.subjectSustainable farmingen_US
dc.subjectcollege educationen_US
dc.subjectagricultural educationen_US
dc.subjectresilienceen_US
dc.titleSustainable Agriculture: Relationship between Knowledge and Attitude among University Studentsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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