Research Article
The Adoption of Bundled Sustainable Farm and Environmental Practices by Coffee Farmers in Southwest Ethiopia
Table 1
Definitions of variables and descriptive statistics.
| Dependent variables | Name | Mean | Std.Dev. |
| Renovating coffee tree stock (1 = yes; 0 = no) | | 0.41 | 0.49 | Applying fertilizer (1 = yes; 0 = no) | | 0.33 | 0.47 | Implementing soil conservation practices (1 = yes; 0 = no) | | 0.24 | 0.43 | Practicing water management (1 = yes; 0 = no) | | 0.49 | 0.5 | Explanatory variables | | | |
| Farm and management characteristic | Coffee farm size (hectare) | Farsize | 0.57 | 0.50 | Farmer has multiple plots (1 = yes; 0 = no) | Multplot | 0.84 | 0.36 | Average remoteness of coffee farm from home (minutes) | Remot | 14.41 | 13.06 | Farmer uses hired labor (1 = yes; 0 = no) | Hiredlab | 0.08 | 0.27 | Coffee farming experience of farmer (years) | Exper | 11.88 | 5.11 | Socio-economic characteristic | Literacy status of farmer (1 = bread and write; 0 = does not bread and write) | Literacy | 0.59 | 0.49 | Family size (number) | Famsize | 6.43 | 2.85 | Training participation on coffee farm management (1 = yes; 0 = no) | Trainingpa | 0.11 | 0.32 | Social capital | Membership of cooperatives | Mcoop | 0.29 | 0.46 | Fairtrade certification | Farmer has fairtrade coffee certification (1 = yes; 0 = no) | Fairtrade | 0.27 | 0.44 |
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