Contingent valuation approach in measuring the multifunctionality of agriculture and rural areas in Japan

Aizaki, Hideo; Sato, Kazuo; Osari, Hiroshi

doi:10.1007/s10333-006-0052-8

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“…While the principal role of agriculture is to produce food and non-food products, other roles include flood prevention, biodiversity, landscaping, and cultural heritage (OECD 2001, Aizaki et al 2006, Renting et al 2009). Recently, more attention has been focused on promoting the physical and psychological health of nonfarmers through farm activities (Maas et al 2006, Park et al 2009, Sommerfeld et al 2010, van den Berg et al 2010, Hawkins et al 2011, Onimaru et al 2015.…”

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Non-farmers’ Preference for Assisting with Farm Tasks as a Method of Health Promotion

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Onimaru

Katayama

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Increasing attention has been focused on promoting the physical and psychological health of non-farmers through farm activities such as home gardening and allotment gardening. In addition to these two farm activities, another farm activity -assisting with farm tasks -has been recently observed among non-farmers. Assuming that certain activities promote the health of non-farmers, specifically assisting with farm tasks near the home, allotment gardening, home gardening, walking, hiking, light physical exercise, home training with gymnastic equipment, and bowling, the preference for assisting with farm tasks compared to other farm and non-farm activities for health promotion was assessed among nonfarmers in Chiba prefecture, Japan. Based on the best-worst scaling approach, assisting with farm tasks and allotment gardening were found to be the least and second-least preferred activities, respectively, while home gardening was found to be more preferred than these two farm activities. According to our results, decreasing farm task difficulty, reducing the travel cost of visiting a farmer, and asking non-farmers to only assist with tasks that can be conducted at their own pace could increase the nonfarmers' preference for assisting with farm tasks as a method of health promotion.

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Non-farmers’ Preference for Assisting with Farm Tasks as a Method of Health Promotion

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Onimaru

Katayama

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“…Therefore, CVM has been applied by many empirical studies, including previous studies considering the whole country of Japan 5,11,13 . However, the number of attributes is limited to one in CVM.…”

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Choice Experiment Approaches to Measure the Economic Value of the Multifunctionality of Agriculture and Rural Areas

Aizaki

2010

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Many studies related to the multifunctionality of agriculture and rural areas have been conducted in both the natural and social sciences. One of the research topics dealt with in agricultural economics was the economic valuation of multifunctionality. This paper reviewed three research results of the economic valuation of multifunctionality by using a choice experiment. The first study analyzed the environmental benefits of promoting ecologically friendly paddy fields. The second study measured the environmental benefits of improving agricultural canals to make them habitable for fireflies. The third study examined a way of conducting choice experiments with six or more function attributes based on a questionnaire (pencil and paper) survey. Finally, it was pointed out that collaboration with other research fields, including natural sciences, was one of the important issues for appropriately applying choice experiments to the economic valuation of multifunctionality.

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“…Previous studies have estimated its economic values in developed and in developing countries (e.g., Randall 2002;Bergstrom and Ready 2009;Renting et al 2009). Such economic valuations in Japan have been carried out using the contingent valuation method (e.g., Yoshida et al 1997;Yoshida 1999;Aizaki et al 2006a), travel cost method (e.g., Tanaka 2000;Watanabe 2004;Sato 2005), and hedonic price method (e.g., Nishizawa et al 1991;Maruyama et al 1995;Watanabe and Asano 2002).…”

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“…Choice experiment applications in the agricultural and rural resources management area can be divided into two groups: the analysis of how households decide to participate in the maintenance activities of agricultural canals Kojiya 2011) and the analysis of how households decide to collect household food waste (Aizaki 2006a).…”

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“…Although collecting household food waste is part of typical food recycling activities, it is not observed in Japan and thus the rate of recycling household food waste there is approximately 6% (Ministry of the Environment of Japan 2011). Aizaki (2006a) applied choice experiments to explore the factors that influence how households collect food waste. The study focused on how households' behavior was influenced by that of their neighbors (i.e., neighborhood effect), because it has been shown that people's decisions on preserving the environment are affected by those of others (e.g., Schelling 1978;Dawes 1980).…”

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Choice Experiment Applications in Food, Agriculture, and Rural Planning Research in Japan

Aizaki¹

2012

AGri-Biosci. Monogr. (AGBM)

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The present monograph reviews applications of choice experiments in over 60 papers that have been published on three research topics related to agricultural economics in Japan: consumer valuation, farm management, and rural planning research. It also presents studies carried out by the author of this monograph and colleagues in each of these fields. First, consumers' valuations of beef derived from bovine embryo-cloned cattle were conducted to demonstrate that spreading technological information on cloning does not necessary improve consumers' intentions to purchase cloned beef. Second, rice farmers' behavior when using a joint-use facility was analyzed and integrated into a simulation to predict how changing the rate structure of the facility influences its acceptance of harvested rice. Finally, the environmental benefits of expanding ecologically friendly paddy fields among rice farmers were estimated and the results were compared with those derived from using the contingent valuation method. An application program for designing and analyzing choice experiments is also illustrated. In conclusion, expanding applications of choice experiments in search of solutions to social issues related to agricultural economics in Japan should consider various decision-making strategies, use other peoples' behavior as an attribute, and examine the information effects.

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Contingent valuation approach in measuring the multifunctionality of agriculture and rural areas in Japan

Cited by 48 publications

References 9 publications

Non-farmers’ Preference for Assisting with Farm Tasks as a Method of Health Promotion

Non-farmers’ Preference for Assisting with Farm Tasks as a Method of Health Promotion

Choice Experiment Approaches to Measure the Economic Value of the Multifunctionality of Agriculture and Rural Areas

Choice Experiment Applications in Food, Agriculture, and Rural Planning Research in Japan

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