A Logit Analysis of Participation in Tennessee's Forest Stewardship Program

Bell, Caroline D.; Roberts, Roland K.; English, Burton C.; Park, William M.

doi:10.1017/s1074070800026389

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“…Previous studies have emphasized the strong predictive power of farmer's values and attitudes (e.g., Lynne et al, 1988;Bell et al, 1994;Vanslembrouck et al, 2002;van Putten et al, 2011;Luzar and Diagne, 1999;Defrancesco et al, 2008) and the reason for holding land (Pannell et al, 2006). Attachment to the land (Ryan et al, 2003) as well as the importance of owner's objectives associated with farming or owning land per se (Emtage and Herbohn, 2012;de Young, 2000).…”

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Exploring the determinants for adopting water conservation measures. What is the tendency of landowners when the resource is already at risk?

Grammatikopoulou

Pouta

Myyrä

2015

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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In Finland, water conservation policy sets equal incentive regardless of the condition of the environment. Before any policy reform, it is vital to investigate landowners' tendency for adoption. In this study we were particularly interested in examining the tendency for adoption if the soil quality implies a high leaching risk or water quality is already poor. For this purpose, survey data were combined with GIS data. Furthermore the aim was to analyse the effect of farm and farmer characteristics and attitudes on adoption. The findings derived by probit models indicated that, for active farmers, financial variables were the key determinants. For passive owners, adoption was also explained by attitudes. Contrary to our expectations, there is no spontaneous tendency for water conservation in deteriorated areas. Targeted agri-environmental measures, even though costly, cannot be avoided.

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Section: Lessons Learned Regarding the Profile Of Adoptersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the determinants for adopting water conservation measures. What is the tendency of landowners when the resource is already at risk?

Grammatikopoulou

Pouta

Myyrä

2015

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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“…Their participation in the programs prompted the owners to spend an average of $2767 of their own funds for forest management activities, with nearly two-thirds saying they would not done have made the expenditure if they had not received a cost-share [320]. Other researchers identified factors that affected participation in conservation programs [321][322][323][324]. Two related NIPF studies noted that broad-based conservation programs and their multiple resource objectives requirement were well-received by forest owners.…”

Section: Integrated Federal Natural Resource Cost-sharing Programsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Much of the research that identified specific management practices on family forests tied these practices to federal or state forestry incentive programs, and thus stresses reforestation and timber stand improvement type activities [280][281][282][283][284][285][286][287][288][289][290][291][292][293][294][319][320][321][322][323][324]335,418]. Many of these practices undertaken on family forests, however, are related not to timber production, but to wildlife habitat management, recreation, scenic values, and wetlands [319,324,356,358].…”

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Taxonomic Review of Classical and Current Literature on the Perennial American Family Forest Problem

Straka

2011

Forests

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Abstract:One of the fundamental issues in American forest policy has been the small forest ownership problem. Early in the twentieth century, it was called the farm forestry problem, later, the nonindustrial private forest problem, and today, the family forest problem. Family forest owners are thought to manage their lands in a suboptimal manner resulting in low forest productivity relative to other ownership groups. This can lead to future timber supply problems. The exact nature of the problem, especially its social and economic basis, was a common subject of early forestry research studies. This article includes many of the major nonindustrial private forest or family forest studies, from early to current, and classifies them both by themes used by other authors and categories that relate to major research areas in the current literature. A major focus of this literature deals with promoting management on family forest holdings and possible land management incentives and disincentives. Natural trends in family forest ownership, like parcelization, also impact upon forest management opportunities. By developing a taxonomy that classifies these studies by research objective, methodology, owner motivation, and problem definition, this article serves to organize the family forest literature in a manner that provides a temporal framework for better understanding the historical motivation for and development of family forest research in the United States.

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“…The literature relates to choice behavior regarding technology, foods, and services, and choice models have been utilized to predict human decision-making behavior in these studies. Examples include decision-making relating to chemical-free foods (Baker 1999;Magnusson and Cranfield 2005), organic foods (Loureiro et al 2001), environmental services (Bell et al 1994), technology (Moon and Balasubramanian 2004;Adesina and Zinnah 1993), and farm diversification (Windle and Rolfe 2005).…”

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Analysis of the use of credit facilities by small-scale fish farmers in Kenya

2009

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The government of Kenya encourages aquaculture development by offering credit facilities through the government agricultural finance institution, Agriculture Finance Corporation. Nevertheless, the level of credit use in fish farming is very low. Access to credit is among several factors that affect farmers' decision of whether to use particular technology or services. The study examined factors that affected the decision of fish farmers in Kenya to utilize credit facilities in fish production using a probit model. The analysis suggests that farmers in the Western province will have a 19% more probability of using credit facilities for their fish farming operations than farmers from the other provinces such as the Rift Valley, Central, and the Eastern province. The effect of tilapia sales on the probability of credit use by fish farmers is more than three times that of catfish sales. Total pond acreage owned by fish farmers had a positive effect on credit use but the effect was very small and negligible. The level of fish farmers' use of credit facilities is very low, and there is probably the need to educate farmers on credit use and for the government agricultural lending agency and other commercial agricultural lenders to invest in this enterprise. Kenyan lending institutions have financed traditional agricultural enterprises, and with the growing production of farmed fish, more research is needed to document the aquaculture business model to assist in assessing the profitability potential in aquaculture.

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A Logit Analysis of Participation in Tennessee's Forest Stewardship Program

Cited by 70 publications

References 5 publications

Exploring the determinants for adopting water conservation measures. What is the tendency of landowners when the resource is already at risk?

Exploring the determinants for adopting water conservation measures. What is the tendency of landowners when the resource is already at risk?

Taxonomic Review of Classical and Current Literature on the Perennial American Family Forest Problem

Analysis of the use of credit facilities by small-scale fish farmers in Kenya

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