European Farmer Survey on Decision Support System Adoption for Crop Protection

Margherita Furiosi's 2026 survey analysis provides insights from 107 total respondents, including 78 Decision Support System users and 29 non-users. It investigates drivers and barriers to DSS adoption for Integrated Pest Management in Europe using clustering and classification tree methods.

Use Cases

• Cluster respondents using features like DSS output reliability and usefulness to segment user types.
• Build a classification tree to identify influential attributes such as DSS availability for different cropping systems among non-users.
• Analyze the relationship between membership in farmers’ networks and DSS ease of use for user cluster separation.
• Model the impact of stakeholder perceptions, including concerns about costs and limited awareness, on adoption barriers.

Strengths

• Survey distinguishes between 78 DSS users and 29 DSS non-users for targeted analysis.
• Analysis identifies four distinct clusters among DSS users and two among non-users.
• Methodological approach is built on open-source tools, providing a reproducible AI-based framework.

Limitations

• Small sample size of 107 total respondents limits statistical power and generalizability.
• Data is contained in a DOCX file (671.4 KB), requiring extraction for computational analysis.
• Survey scope is limited to European agricultural stakeholders, potentially lacking global perspective.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Margherita Furiosi.

Collection Method

Anonymous online survey among farmers, advisors, and other agricultural stakeholders.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Europe