Farmers’ stated preference analysis towards resources use under alternative policy scenarios

Farmers' stated responses towards the chemicals use under the CAP liberalization

“…The South area envelops the Emilia-Romagna, Andalusia, Macedonia and Thrace. Finally, the East area accounts for the Podlaskie and the South-East Planning Region as the Source: adapted from Giannoccaro and Berbel (2013) new accession members to the EU. In addition, there are some spatial features related to the geographic characteristics such as altitude and location in the 'Less Favourable Areas' (LFA).…”

“…Finally, the CAP changes induced more uncertainty for some farmers, who stated that they did not know what to do in the NO-CAP scenario, while in the CAP continuity, they had a clear preference. Table 2 shows the survey results of the farmers' stated preferences Source: own elaboration from Giannoccaro and Berbel (2013) with reference to the level of the chemicals use under each CAP scenarios. Inconsistent data and outliers were removed from the initial sample of 1328 observations.…”

“…While there has been some research on the attitudes of the key agricultural actors towards structural adjustments (Slangen et al 2004), up-to-date analyses on farmers' attitudes and their behavioural intentions towards the chemicals use in the NMSs are still scarce. This paper emerges out from a more compre hensive research developed by Giannoccaro and Berbel (2013) in the scope of the CAP-IRE 1 project that established a scenario hypothesis with two extreme states of the CAP policy by 2020: (i) a baseline scenario of the CAP framework in year 2009, that includes the latest Health check agreements, and (ii) a scenario assuming a complete abolition of all the CAP instruments.…”

Towards sustainability in agro-forest systems? Grazing intensity, soil degradation and the socioeconomic profile of rural communities in Italy

“…At the same time, working with 2000-2001 statistical data allows a direct match with soil data mainly collected along the 1990s and forming the primary informative base for the assessment of soil degradation processes in Italy . As regards the reliability of grazing data with the abovementioned time delay, it is worthwhile noting that, according to literature, existing trends in agricultural practices did not seem to have significantly been altered in consequence of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform of 2003 (Bougherara and Latruffe, 2010;Lobley and Butler, 2010), nor it is expected that CAP abolishment would stimulate strong agricultural changes in resource use, at least in the short term (Giannoccaro and Berbel, 2013). Fig.…”

Farmers’ attitudes towards the introduction of agri-environmental measures in agricultural infrastructure projects in China: Evidence from Beijing and Changsha

“…Many authors have discussed this issue from ecological Whittingham, 2007;Concepción et al, 2008), social and psychological (Beedell and Rehman, 1999;Willock et al, 1999;Wilson and Hart, 2000;Siebert et al, 2006;Guillem and Barnes, 2013) and economic (Falconer, 2000;Mettepenningen et al, 2011) perspectives. With respect to the social and psychological aspects, there are numerous studies on farmers' attitudes, perceptions and behaviour towards AES (Herzon and Mikk, 2007;Fjellstad et al, 2009;Giannoccaro and Berbel, 2013;Guillem and Barnes, 2013), the factors affecting farmers' willingness to participate (Sattler and Nagel, 2010;Schroeder et al, 2013) and the design of agri-environmental measures (Schroeder et al, 2013).…”