Farmers’ Preferences for Enhancing Sustainability in Arable Lands: Evidence From a Choice Experiment in Sicily

Salvo, Maria De; Cucuzza, Giuseppe; Cosentino, Salvatore Luciano; Nicita, Lea; Signorello, Giovanni

doi:10.30682/nm1804e

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“…Respondents are asked to choose their preferred alternative based on a set of hypothetical scenarios known as the choice set in this method [46]. Many studies have used the CE approach to investigate contract attributes, such as coffee farmers' preferences for coffee certification [10], contract attribute design [33], farmers' preferences for increasing sustainability in arable land [6] and sustainable farm management contracts [19]. Individuals are expected to choose one option that maximizes the utility or satisfaction of each alternative package presented to them when CE is implemented.…”

Section: Choice Experiments Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It's crucial to recognize and comprehend the taste or location-specific preferences of farmers. Understanding and knowledge about preferences seeks to make certification scheme implementation more effective [6] has a higher or adoptable degree of acceptance [5,7], and can be accepted by farmers [8,9]. It is suggested that the design of partnership and certification programs involve the local community in the development of partnership attributes and certification requirements [10].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Small-Scale Farmers' Preference in Adopting Geographical Indications’ Code of Practice to Produce Coffee in Indonesia: A Choice Experiment Study

Laksono¹,

Irham

Mulyo

et al. 2021

E3S Web Conf.

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Geographical Indication is a type of collective intellectual property that producers may use to capture the place-related value expressed in their product which involve the physical and anthropic characteristics of the production area. There is GI’s Code of Practice (CoP) that should be adopted by farmers as reference standard to maintain GIs product consistency and definition requirements. Understanding farmer preferences and incorporating them into the development of improvement of GIs’ certification schemes is thought to result in more internalized, and thus more efficient standards. This study aims to 1) investigate the small-scale farmers’ preferences and the influence of socio-economics characteristics rejecting GIs’ scheme; and 2) develop strategies to increase farmers participation on GIs’ scheme. Choice Experiment method and Conditional Logit Model (CLM) were used to estimate preferences of 157 small-scale coffee farmers for accepting GIs’ scheme. The findings suggest that premium price, coffee processing, technical assistance, and selling agreement are all GIs’ attributes that could increase small-scale farmers’ utility. More incentives are required to compensate farmers due to the loss of utility caused by pesticide bans and farm inspection. Based on CLM, the study found that farmers have clear preferences for and against certain aspects of GIs’ CoP scheme.

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Section: Choice Experiments Approachmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Small-Scale Farmers' Preference in Adopting Geographical Indications’ Code of Practice to Produce Coffee in Indonesia: A Choice Experiment Study

Laksono¹,

Irham

Mulyo

et al. 2021

E3S Web Conf.

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“…We observed 15 studies used this attribute to test its impacts on contract design, and 8 out of those showed that farmers prefer to enroll shorter areas into the contracts, while 6 showed no role of significance. Studies have indicated this as a conflict between agricultural intensification and conservation (De Salvo et al, 2018;Espinosa-Goded et al, 2010;Villamayor-Tomas et al, 2019;Villanueva et al, 2015a). Farmers also have a high reluctance and strong disutility for larger conservation areas or larger forest sizes.…”

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“…The attribute is also similar to 'communal participation', with the only difference being that this tests the farmer's preferences to his immediate neighbor's preferences, whereas the latter is on the level of the whole community. De Salvo et al (2018) suggested that neighbor-effect can improve acceptability of AESs and achieve cost-effectiveness of contracts, and hence farmers' preferences for 'local context' should be considered by policymakers.…”

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

Raina

Zavalloni

Targetti

et al. 2021

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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“…It is still unclear, however, whether the trust in long-term buyers itself, rather than a contract, may be an avenue to reach these farmers and whether that will suffice to induce a change in practices, considering that some farmers may also be principally opposed to certain (agro-ecological) practices (Jaeck & Lifran, 2014). Thus, to maximise uptake of sustainable practices, heterogenous preferences for both contracts and practices need to be taken into account (Mack et al, 2020;Salvo et al, 2018). This indicates that there are limitations to what a voluntary private sector approach can achieve in terms of improving the uptake of more SI practices.…”

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

Weituschat¹

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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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Farmers’ Preferences for Enhancing Sustainability in Arable Lands: Evidence From a Choice Experiment in Sicily

Cited by 11 publications

References 40 publications

Small-Scale Farmers' Preference in Adopting Geographical Indications’ Code of Practice to Produce Coffee in Indonesia: A Choice Experiment Study

Small-Scale Farmers' Preference in Adopting Geographical Indications’ Code of Practice to Produce Coffee in Indonesia: A Choice Experiment Study

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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