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Description

Farmer's survey

The best thing about a survey is that it helps to get the opinion of people. And to get the most relevant information, it is the ones that are directly touched that should be asked: the farmers. As it concerns their field of activity, they should be the most informed about Xylella fastidiosa. And since they are the principal users, their decision about using or not our product is essential to us. What we did was simple. We created a short survey to get to know if the different actors accepted our cure, even if it was a GMO.

We got answers from 9 enterprises, 6 of them producing organic and AOP food. The X.fastidiosa’s problem is well known within the agricultural field: they all answered between 3 and 5 out of 5. They all agree that it was a subject of concern and they do think it one of their priorities: 8 answered 3-4 out of 5 (5 being the top priority). They think that the communication within their field of activity is correct: 8 on 9 answered 3-4 out of 5. However progress could be made with the communication within the retailers: 5 on 9 of 2 out of 5, and with the population: a slight majority of 1 out of 5.

When we asked them what was the characteristic they would value the most in our product, the answered were efficacity and conformity with labels. However, only 4 said they would use a modified virus as a cure against Xillela Fastidiosa. For 8 on 9, they would prefer a purified organic compound. As for the final form of the cure, the most efficient way depends strongly on the type of agriculture. In addition, it is better if the cure is also preventive (5 on 9). Some prefer pulverization, other injection or vaporization. They would want to be able to sell their product shortly after the cure is done most of the answered varied between 0 et 90 days.

Public survey

We wanted to know if the population was ready to accept our cure - a genetically modified virus - so we made a survey to get their opinion. To ensure the broadest possible audience, we made the survey both in English and in French. The survey was done via google.form, we send the link to all networks, asking them to send it further into their networks. As we are mainly students, it has to be taken into account that the proportion of answer from students may cause a bias in the general answers.

As you can see from the chart, more than ⅘ of the people who answered our survey are aged between 18-25. More than ⅔ hadn’t ever heard about Xylella fastidiosa! For those who knew, it was for more than half thanks to the media or from word of mouth, respectively 33 and 53 %. They felt in ¾ of the answered concerned, interested and involved by this bacteria.

METTRE FIGURES SI POSSIBLE

We wanted to test their knowledge about synthetic biology: the science of tackling nature. ⅔ did know about it, that is probably because of the great proportion of biology student in the survey. They thought this science was great, 90% of the studied population had an opinion between 3-5 (5 mean a good opinion, 1 mean a bad opinion). More specifically, the feeling they felt about the synthetic biology was, from most common to least: interested, enthusiastic, confident and concern being about as much present.

They all had a good opinion of our project, 100% between 3-5 (5 mean good opinion). Once again we wanted specificity. We asked them and got basically the same result as for synthetic biology: interested, enthusiastic, confident and concern being about as much present. They also said that the most important characteristics of our project are: first of all the protection of the tree and the destruction of X.fastidiosa, on the second-hand ecology principles and the specificity aspect of the cure...

About the GMO matter, their opinion is not well defined, more than half of them answered 3 out of 5. By this survey, we collected the opinion of the public for the GMO subject. Thank to the feedback, we saw that they are not all hermetic about the GMO subject. So our project, if we manage a good communication campaign, could be accepted by the population.