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Socioeconomic Perspectives on Household Chestnut Fruit Utilization and Chestnut Blight Prevention Efforts in Turkey
Sustainability, Vol.9(5), p.831
05/15/2017
Abstract
Exotic pathogens, within the center of genetic diversity for the species, compromise European chestnut populations in Turkey. In Turkey today, the species is of tremendous economic, ecological and cultural importance. At this time of severe exotic pathogenic pressure on a highly-valued forest species, we ask, how does awareness of diseases and treatments as well as value for chestnut trees affect the efforts of households to manage pests and diseases of chestnut trees in Turkey? We conducted 96 surveys in 34 villages in 10 provinces across Turkey to investigate awareness of diseases and other challenges to the chestnut population, chestnut harvesting habits, family value for chestnuts and efforts to mitigate pest and disease pressure. We analyze our results using cluster and regression analysis. Our results show that based on analysis of all observed characteristics, our research sites in Turkey break cleanly into groups based on production level. Further, results demonstrate significant correlation between amount of chestnut-derived income and awareness of pests and diseases as well as the likelihood of households enacting disease mitigation measures. These results also demonstrate correlation between observed awareness of diseases and pests and the likelihood of households enacting disease mitigation measures.
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- Title
- Socioeconomic Perspectives on Household Chestnut Fruit Utilization and Chestnut Blight Prevention Efforts in Turkey
- Creators
- Taner Okan - Istanbul UniversityCoskun Kose - Istanbul UniversityJeffrey R. Wall - Washington State University, Department of Horticulture
- Publication Details
- Sustainability, Vol.9(5), p.831
- Academic Unit
- Department of Horticulture
- Publisher
- Mdpi
- Number of pages
- 13
- Grant note
- Republic of Turkey General Directorate of Forestry Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK); Turkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu (TUBITAK) Turkish Fulbright Commission U.S. Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security Program; United States Agency for International Development (USAID) American Research Institute of Turkey (ARIT)
- Identifiers
- 99901299293601842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article