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\parbox[b]{13.4cm}{\centering \large{\textbf{Tropentag, September 18-21, 2016, Vienna, Austria}}\\[1ex] \Large{``Solidarity in a competing world ---\\fair use of resources''\\[2ex]}}
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\Large{\textbf{Farmers' Attitudes and Behavioural Intentions Towards Biodiversity Conservation: the Case of Fars Province, Iran\footnote{\textbf{Contact Address:} Hamideh Maleksaeidi, University of Kurdistan, Department of Agriculture, , \mbox{e-mail}: \email{hmsaidi87@gmail.com}}\\[0.8ex]}}
\normalsize{\textsc{Hamideh Maleksaeidi$^{1}$, Marzieh Keshavarz$^{2}$}}
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\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{1}$University of Kurdistan, Department of Agriculture, }}}
\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{2}$Payame Noor University, Department of Agriculture, Iran}}}
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Biodiversity is globally recognised as a foundation stone of healthy ecosystems, and biodiversity conservation is increasingly becoming one of the important aims of environmental management. In spite of this fact, human"=driven land"=use changes, especially during the last century, have already caused biodiversity to decline. In this regard, the intensification and expansion of modern agricultural practices in many countries has led to the biological simplification of the farmed environment and has declined farmland biodiversity during the last century. Since, attitudes and intentions towards viability of specific conservation practices strongly impact human decisions on adoption these practices and change; this study aims to investigate farmers' attitude and intension towards biodiversity conservation. A survey was conducted by questionnaire in Fars province (a southern province in Iran) and data was collected from 274 farmers, who were selected using stratified random sampling. Major independent variables in the study were knowledge on the concept of biodiversity, knowledge on the biodiversity value, knowledge on the strategies to conserve biodiversity, skill and ability to use these strategies, perceived behavioural control to conserve biodiversity, social norm, perception of the impacts of agricultural practice on biodiversity, perception of the role of governmental organisations to conserve biodiversity, age and education level. The results of the study showed that age, education level and knowledge have significant effects on attitude towards biodiversity conservation. Also, attitude towards biodiversity conservation, skill to use strategies for biodiversity conservation and perception of the impacts of agricultural practice on biodiversity had significant and direct effects on the farmers' intention towards biodiversity conservation. The findings of this study could be used by planner and policy"=makers to improve farm biodiversity in different parts of the world. }

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\noindent \textbf{Keywords:} Agriculture, attitude, biodiversity, farmers, intention, Iran
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