Contract Design for Adoption of Agrienvironmental Practices: A Meta-analysis of Discrete Choice Experiments

Mamine, Fateh; Farès, M’hand; Minviel, Jean Joseph

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106721

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“…For example, the perpetual contract might reduce future uncertainty by removing the need to consider what to do with the land when the contract expires (which is after 50 years or even longer from the time they make a decision). Although many studies showed that duration reduces participation significantly, the literature is not entirely conclusive, especially when payment for ES and agro‐environmental schemes is viewed in a broader perspective (Mamine & Minviel 2020 ). If one takes our results at face value, they imply that program managers and policy makers would be better off, in terms of expected initial participation rates and environmental outcomes, using perpetual contracts rather than contracts that last 50 years or longer.…”

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“…Our study also has some natural extensions. To keep the types of programs and studies relatively homogenous, we deliberately excluded studies of payment for ES programs in other parts of the world (Alix‐Garcia & Wolff 2014 ) and studies of agro‐environmental schemes (Mamine & Minviel 2020 ). In practical meta‐analyses, there is often a trade‐off between heterogeneity and the ability to explain particular phenomena accurately.…”

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Meta‐analysis of landowner participation in voluntary incentive programs for provision of forest ecosystem services

Mitani

Lindhjem

2021

Conservation Biology

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Many voluntary incentive programs for provision of forest ecosystem services (ES) have low participation rates, insufficient enrollment areas, and inefficient ecological outcomes. Understanding participation behavior in such programs has therefore become a crucial part of policy success. We synthesized a large body of literature on the behavior of nonindustrial private forest owners based on surveys of stated (intended) participation or data on actual participation in existing or hypothetical programs. Using metaregression analysis, we examined how methodological, program-characteristic, and economic-incentive variables affected participation rate estimates. Participation rates tended to be overestimated when landowner participation was elicited in hypothetical choice situations (compared with real situations) and when dichotomous choice surveys (compared with census data) were used. The marginal effect sizes were quite large, for example, a 31% increase with use of stated choices in hypothetical scenarios, and practitioners should therefore be aware of them. However, use of choice experiment surveys in a modified scenario based on existing programs had no effect on participation when all other determinants were controlled for. Participation rates decreased significantly as length of the contract increased and when there was no withdrawal option. These results suggest that perpetual contracts have a lower negative impact on participation than time-limited contracts with a duration of over 50 years. We confirmed that as compensation amounts increased, participation increased. One-time up-front payments were more effective in increasing initial participation than annual payments for contracts of over 5 years. We identified the robust determinants and the effect sizes of those determinants on landowner participation rate estimates, thereby contributing to a better understanding of forest owner behavior and offering useful insights to enable researchers and resource managers to improve the design and efficiency of new and existing forest ES programs.

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Meta‐analysis of landowner participation in voluntary incentive programs for provision of forest ecosystem services

Mitani

Lindhjem

2021

Conservation Biology

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“…However, they did not use a systematic method, thus, they covered a broad spectrum of AEMs that does not focus on using the CE methodology to examine farmers' choices. One recent study by Mamine et al (2020) did conduct a meta-analysis of 79 AES studies that use the CE method to evaluate farmers' preferences. However, they did not conduct a systematic review and grouped the extracted 290 attributes into only two categoriescommitments and incentives.…”

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“…However, they did not conduct a systematic review and grouped the extracted 290 attributes into only two categoriescommitments and incentives. Mamine et al (2020) haven't been the first to classify contract attributes into different sub-types. Many AES studies that use the CE methodology classify the choice attributes as monetary and non-monetary.…”

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A systematic review of attributes used in choice experiments for agri-environmental contracts

Raina

Zavalloni

Targetti

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Contract attributes are strong motivators for eliciting farmers’ preferences for a particular agri-environmental scheme. Our study aims to conduct a systematic literature review to highlight the attributes used in choice experiment studies of agri-environmental schemes using the PRISMA framework. We obtained 34 studies for an in-depth review, through which we extracted 32 attributes that were classified into five typologies: ‘monetary’ (7 attributes), ‘general’ (4 attributes), ‘flexibility’ (6 attributes), ‘prescription’ (12 attributes), and ‘purpose’ (3 attributes). Though monetary attributes should theoretically define farmers’ choices; general design and flexibility attributes are more critical for farmers’ participation and willingness to accept. The study also discusses the lesser-used attributes that could be potentially explored in future studies. Thus, our review can be used as a reference by future AES studies to select their bundle of choice attributes and test with a broader range of attributes in their choice experiments.

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“…Finally, chapter 4 analyses contract farming as a governance mechanism to facilitate the diffusion of crop diversification. While the study itself is limited to the empirical testing of contract farming, the approach is implicitly inspired by the tradition of economic organisation studies which consider governance as the organisational forms that coordinate economic activities, interactions and exchanges (Ménard, 2018), as well as theories on contract design (Grandori, 1991;Grandori & Furlotti, 2019;Mamine et al, 2020).…”

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Crop up! : adoption and value chain organisation in crop diversification transitions

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Dedicated to my family, the one I was born into and the one I gained along the way.You give me hope that we can do better.First of all, I would like to thank my daily supervisors, Stefano Pascucci and Valentina Cristiana Materia, for their endless advice, constructive criticism and contributions. You have been extraordinarily supportive, both scientifically and personally. I would also like to thank my promotor Jacques Trienekens for being the calm, steady hand guiding us through a tumultuous process. More of my gratitude goes to Peter Tamas for being my most (entertainingly) critical advisor. You made me a better scientist, while constantly making me laugh through our cynicism. Thanks also go to Ruth de Jong who not only contributed to the data collection but who was also a great sparring partner to me. Finally, I would also like to thank Ardinesh Kambanje, Alice Bischof, and all my other fellow BMO PhDs, with whom I have shared an office, a corridor and many inspiring conversations, and Mufty Hasanov for the inspiration for this book's title. However, while my work was supported by many in an academic sense, a PhD is not a purely academic endeavour. The support I have received in my personal life was at least equally important. I would not have made it through this process if it weren't for my family, both old and new. Firstly, I need to thank Percy Cicilia Jr. You were always there for me, through the hardest and the best of times. Your friendship of more than a decade made this possible. I also want to thank Maddy Young and Kiki Cappello for being my dearest friends these past years. The three of you, alongside many other friends and the Wageningen salsa community, kept me sane throughout this process. Finally, I thank my parents, Burkhard and Valérie, for endlessly supporting me and believing in me, and my sister Lea for keeping my feet firmly planted on the ground. Lastly, I would like to thank my lovely niece Ida for reminding me why this work matters and what we are fighting for. Policy and practice-oriented implications 2. Goal frames and sustainability transitions: How cognitive lock-ins can impede crop diversification 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Sustainability transitions and lock-ins 2.3 Conceptual framework 2.4 Data and methodology 2.5 Findings 2.6 Discussion 2.7 Conclusions Appendix 2.1: Farmer overview 3. Understanding the role of value chain formation in the scaling of crop diversification practices 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Conceptual framework 3.3 Materials and methods 3.4 Findings 3.5 Discussion 3.6 Conclusions Appendix 3.1: Case study descriptions 4. Can contract farming support sustainable intensification in agri-food value chains? 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The role of contract farming in the adoption of sustainable intensification practices 4.3 Study context and methods 4.4 Results 4.5 Discussion 4.6 Conclusion Appendix 4.1: Sampling Appendix 4.2: Attitudinal scales 5. Discussion and conclusion 5.1 Summary of results 5.2 Synthesis and conceptual reflections in the context of adoption and transition research ...

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Contract Design for Adoption of Agrienvironmental Practices: A Meta-analysis of Discrete Choice Experiments

Cited by 27 publications

References 93 publications

Meta‐analysis of landowner participation in voluntary incentive programs for provision of forest ecosystem services

Meta‐analysis of landowner participation in voluntary incentive programs for provision of forest ecosystem services

A systematic review of attributes used in choice experiments for agri-environmental contracts

Crop up! : adoption and value chain organisation in crop diversification transitions

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