Defining agri-environmental schemes in the buffer areas of a natural regional park: An application of choice experiment using the latent class approach

Rocchi, Lucia; Paolotti, Luisa; Fagioli, Filippo Fiume

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.04.033

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“…From a supply side, Espinosa-Goded et al (2010) used a CE to investigate farmers' ex-ante preferences for key elements of agri-environmental scheme design. Rocchi et al (2017) elicited the preferences of a group of farmers about agri-environmental actions to be applied in the buffer areas of a natural regional park and Villanueva et al, (2017) explored farmers' preferences towards agrienvironmental schemes across different agricultural subsystems. From the demand side, Novikova et al, (2017) applied a CE to explore the preference of residents for agro-ecosystem services at national scale and Varela et al, (2018) examined the demand for enhanced biodiversity of small forest patches in agricultural landscape through a CE.…”

Section: Choice Experiments Methods In Agri-environmental Policy Assessmentmentioning

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Public preferences for post 2020 agri-environmental policy in the Czech Republic: A choice experiment approach

2020

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In November 2017 European Union commission presented a communication report summarizing the reform proposal of the post 2020 Common Agriculture Policy (CAP). The reform aims to address the environmental degradation associated with agricultural production as well as change in the structure of CAP payments. To this end, the Ministry of Agriculture in Czech Republic is preparing to set its priorities towards CAP's reform. In this study we applied a choice experiment to investigate the public preferences for a set of environmental goods and services delivered by agri-environment-climatic voluntary measures (AECMs). A mixed logit model is employed to elicit preferences and explore their heterogeneity. We find that respondents oppose strongly funding removal. Among environmental attributes, water and food quality are the ones with the highest implicit marginal willingness-to-pay values. Preferences for no funding option are heterogeneous with socio-demographic and attitudinal variables explaining some sources of this heterogeneity. A continuation of national funding for the AECMs is expected to lead to a better state of environment with an anticipated positive welfare change of 669 to 932 mil EUR as opposed to funding removal. The change reflects the estimated welfare change resulting from moving from a low to a medium or to a high preservation state of agri-environmental attributes. We also project the budget change for AECMs considering the level of national funding and given the transfer share between Pillar I and II. Based on our results, we suggest that national funding can be informed by the welfare change scenarios and transfer shares are projected accordingly.

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Section: Choice Experiments Methods In Agri-environmental Policy Assessmentmentioning

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Public preferences for post 2020 agri-environmental policy in the Czech Republic: A choice experiment approach

2020

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“…Many other studies in the agricultural literature have made suggestions for policy design changes through the use of choice experiments. Choice experiments allow for the inference of willingness to pay for different policy features or attributes (Christensen et al, 2011;Espinosa-Goded et al, 2010;Garrod et al, 2012;Kuhfuss et al, 2016a;Rocchi et al, 2017;Ruto and Garrod, 2009;Schulz et al, 2014;Villamayor-Tomas et al, 2019;Villanueva et al, 2015). While these studies have been beneficial in providing us with a better understanding of policy preferences from a farmer s perspective, they generally cannot provide us with a direct comparison of the effects of different policy modification treatments in the same way that a traditional randomised experiment can.…”

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Using Choice Framing to Improve the Design of Agricultural Subsidy Schemes

Ocean

Howley

2021

Land Economics

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Existing agri-environment schemes have suffered from poor uptake and high burden. This article leverages behavioural economics to test choice framing in three hypothetical policy scenarios. Using a randomised survey experiment on UK farmers, we find that frames based on mental accounting and loss aversion can be used to influence agricultural policyrelated decision making. Our findings highlight the following considerations for the design of future policy: (i) whether application costs are integrated within or segregated from a subsidy matters; (ii) the labelling of agricultural schemes may affect expenditure allocation; and (iii) reference points can affect the evaluation of new scheme alternatives.

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“…Overall, studies using this attribute observed that farmers have a negative preference for EFAs, since agreeing to it would mean dedicating additional areas to ecological functions than stated in the contract. A similar attribute called 'Naturalization' used by Rocchi et al (2017) defines conversion of agricultural areas to pastures, using particular species with a high natural value. However, farmers in their study show the least interest in this attribute.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…3 out of 4 studies using this attribute reported that chemical reduction negatively impacts farmers' participation and increases their WTA. Only Rocchi et al (2017) observed that most of their respondents are interested in reducing nitrates. Chang et al (2017) suggested that farmers should be incentivized if they agree to an additional reduction of chemical fertilizers.…”

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

Raina

Zavalloni

Targetti

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BAE

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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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Defining agri-environmental schemes in the buffer areas of a natural regional park: An application of choice experiment using the latent class approach

Cited by 14 publications

References 67 publications

Public preferences for post 2020 agri-environmental policy in the Czech Republic: A choice experiment approach

Public preferences for post 2020 agri-environmental policy in the Czech Republic: A choice experiment approach

Using Choice Framing to Improve the Design of Agricultural Subsidy Schemes

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

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