Drivers and Preferences of European Farmers for Agri-Environmental Public Goods Schemes: A Two-Stage Analysis

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1617138125000895" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1617138125000895</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2025.126912" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jnc.2025.126912</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Drivers and Preferences of European Farmers for Agri-Environmental Public Goods Schemes: A Two-Stage Analysis

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The new Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) intends to give more freedom to countries to manage their budget while increasing funding for income support and provisioning of climate public goods from agriculture and farming. For the past 20 years this has been operationalised through incentivising farmers&apos; contract participation in agri-environmental schemes (AES). In this paper we examine through a two-stage approach, farmer preferences for contract characteristics in a multi-European country Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) and the determinants of land enrolment in contracts. Overall, we find that longer contracts and high administrative burden decrease the probability of enrolling in a contract over the base levels while shorter contract length and provisioning of advisory support are desirable. Amongst all available contract options, converting arable to grassland options was by farthe one that participants asked the most compensation for, across countries. We also find that past experience with agri-environmental schemes and socio-demographics have a strong and statistically significant effect on the percentage of land enrolled, while contract characteristics do not influence enrolment. Finally, we present some evidence of position-ordering effects affecting preferences for contracts and their characteristics but not influencing contract enrolment. Understanding the true cost incurred by farmers to implement AES is crucial for policymakers as failure to do so can make farmers ask for much higher compensation, per hectare, potentially to cover costs of transitioning to different types of farming or to incorporate financial risk by significantly altering their farm practices.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Drivers and Preferences of European Farmers for Agri-Environmental Public Goods Schemes: A Two-Stage Analysis

Popis výsledku anglicky

The new Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) intends to give more freedom to countries to manage their budget while increasing funding for income support and provisioning of climate public goods from agriculture and farming. For the past 20 years this has been operationalised through incentivising farmers&apos; contract participation in agri-environmental schemes (AES). In this paper we examine through a two-stage approach, farmer preferences for contract characteristics in a multi-European country Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) and the determinants of land enrolment in contracts. Overall, we find that longer contracts and high administrative burden decrease the probability of enrolling in a contract over the base levels while shorter contract length and provisioning of advisory support are desirable. Amongst all available contract options, converting arable to grassland options was by farthe one that participants asked the most compensation for, across countries. We also find that past experience with agri-environmental schemes and socio-demographics have a strong and statistically significant effect on the percentage of land enrolled, while contract characteristics do not influence enrolment. Finally, we present some evidence of position-ordering effects affecting preferences for contracts and their characteristics but not influencing contract enrolment. Understanding the true cost incurred by farmers to implement AES is crucial for policymakers as failure to do so can make farmers ask for much higher compensation, per hectare, potentially to cover costs of transitioning to different types of farming or to incorporate financial risk by significantly altering their farm practices.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10618 - Ecology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

ISSN

1617-1381

e-ISSN

1618-1093

Svazek periodika

86

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

AUG

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

"126912-1"-"126912-13"

Kód UT WoS článku

001461361400001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105001334862