Twenty-four qualitative interviews were conducted with farmers and farmland owners in two Minnesota subwatersheds of the Red River Basin. The interviews were designed to elicit participant views on decision-making drivers and farm management goals, especially related to natural resource stewardship. In this paper we examine perceived self-efficacy as a determinant of conservation behavior. Study findings highlight multiple constraints to conservation agriculture, including low perceived self-efficacy, regardless of motivation. These results suggest that programs and policies designed to elevate self-efficacy may be helpful for increasing conservation behavior. In particular, we suggest empowering feedback loops as a mechanism to build self-efficacy among farmers and agricultural landowners. Improved understanding of farmer decision-making drivers and self-efficacy sources and constraints will likely aid natural resource professionals and policy makers in designing and implementing agricultural conservation programs and policies that are more closely aligned with goals and values of farmers, and will thus be helpful in achieving state and local water conservation goals.

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自我效能的归纳框架，以了解和支持保护性农业中的农民

对红河流域的两个明尼苏达亚流域的农民和农田所有者进行了 24 次定性访谈。访谈旨在征求参与者对决策驱动因素和农场管理目标的看法，尤其是与自然资源管理相关的看法。在本文中，我们研究了感知自我效能作为保护行为的决定因素。研究结果强调了保护性农业的多重制约因素，包括无论动机如何，自我效能感低。这些结果表明，旨在提高自我效能的计划和政策可能有助于增加保护行为。特别是，我们建议授权反馈循环作为在农民和农业土地所有者之间建立自我效能的机制。