Review of methods and evidence for economic valuation of agricultural non-commodity outputs and suggestions to facilitate its application to broader decisional contexts

Madureira, Lívia; Rambonilaza, Tina; Karpinski, Isabella

doi:10.1016/j.agee.2006.04.015

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“…Recent methodological reviews include: Turner et al (2003), Balmford and Rodrigues (2008), Fisher et al (2008). Value estimates for specific ecosystem functions are presented in: EFTEC (2005), which reviewed the economic, social and ecological value of ecosystem services focussing on wetlands, forests and agroecosystems; Kettunen and ten Brink (2006), which reviewed the cost of biodiversity loss in Europe; Moran et al (2007), which determined a monetary estimate of the environmental benefits derived from the implementation of the nature conservation measures in the proposed UK Marine Bill; Ledoux and Turner (2002), which assessed the non-market values of coastal ecosystem services; Kaval (2007), which reviewed estimates for the recreational benefits of US Parks; and Madureira et al (2007), which reviewed value estimates for agricultural, non-commodity outputs in Europe. The Canadian valuation database ENVRI, the most populated valuation database to date, hosts 2088 valuation studies of which 1168 refer to Northern America.…”

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Reviewing the dynamics of economic values and preferences for ecosystem goods and services

2009

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The present paper addresses the issue of a dynamic approach to biodiversity conservation by focusing on published evidence on the dynamics of economic values and preferences for ecosystem goods and services. Empirical evidence referring to the dynamics of ecosystem values was identified as both demand-driven and supply-driven value dynamics. A survey of temporal reliability tests revealed considerable differences in the time span examined (2 weeks to 20 years). The evidence shows that ecosystem value estimates, as expressed through mean Willingness To Pay remain significantly stable in the time span of 2 weeks to 5 years, but this is not the case for time periods of 20 years. For longer periods, both a weak and strong version of preference evolution were examined; here the elements of cultural transmission and evolutionary approaches make the task of modelling the dynamics of preferences rather complex. Integrated models and dynamic bioeconomic models were examined as representative approaches to supply-driven dynamics. These approaches share a role in pushing our understanding of complex systems and alerting both researchers and policy makers to the dangers of oversimplification. The reviewed models are nevertheless normative in nature in the sense that they describe how the complex socio-ecological systems should evolve over time in order to fulfil the requirements of efficiency and sustainability. Mixing of methods and pooling of data seems the only way forward. In this respect, the potential of systematic and formalised interdisciplinary research lies in the integration of insights, methods and data drawn from natural and social sciences.

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2009

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“…However, agriculture is a multifunctional activity. Along with producing food, fiber, and other economic goods, an effectively operated farm also protects the environment, generates employment, and sustains rural landscapes (Dale & Polasky 2007;Madureira et al 2007;Swinton et al 2007;Zhang et al 2007). To allow a true comparison of this range of activities, it is necessary to capture key environmental services such as soil conservation, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity protection, along with marketable goods and services (Zbinden & Lee, 2005;Swinton et al 2007).…”

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Ecosystem services and agricultural land-use practices: a case study of the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh

Rasul

2009

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

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Land degradation due to inappropriate agricultural activities, as well as the environmental and social effects associated with these practices, is accelerating in many developing regions of the world. This trend underlines the importance of measuring environmental costs and benefits to improve policy making with respect to land use and agriculture. Using nonmarket valuation techniques, this article estimates the value of environmental services associated with four agricultural land-use systems in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh and compares their relative profitability from private and social perspectives. The financial analysis reveals that annual cash crops are the most profitable shortterm land use and agroforestry is the least profitable, with horticulture and farm forestry providing benefits intermediate between these two systems. However, the relatively larger returns from annual cash cropping lead to higher environmental costs such as soil erosion, forfeited carbon sequestration, and biodiversity loss. When the environmental costs are taken into account, annual cash crops appear to be the most costly land-use system, with agroforestry and farm forestry becoming more profitable. The findings demonstrate the tradeoffs and synergies between relatively more environmentally sustainable and harmful land-use practices. Financial incentives to encourage more prudent agricultural activities are needed to transform tradeoffs into synergies. This article examines different financial incentive mechanisms-including payments for environmental services-and makes several policy recommendations.

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“…These indicators should be defined and proposed in each case study in accordance with the most relevant aspects of the agricultural system and also with the aim of the study, but basically in accordance with existing sources of information. Madureira et al (2007) show in their review about the valuation of goods and services supplied by agriculture that there are many works that have studied the demand of certain functions, goods and services supplied by agriculture. However, these authors report the few empirical studies that have analyzed social demand in favor of multifunctional agriculture from an overall perspective (Gómez-Limón, 2006;Gómez-Limón & Barreiros, 2007).…”

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Evaluating the functionality of agricultural systems: social preferences for multifunctional peri-urban agriculture. The “Huerta de Valencia” as case study

Marques-Perez

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Álvarez

2014

Span. j. agric. res.

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The debate on the multifunctionality of agriculture and its connections with territorial policies are the basis of the most appropriate approach to legitimize public interventions in the agricultural sector. The main obstacle of this public intervention is to know the goods and services provided by agricultural systems and elicitation of the social preferences for them. We created a descriptive approach for the multifunctionality of agricultural systems that is based on the review of the scientific literature focused on multifunctionality and the goods and services of agricultural systems. The review shows a large variety of activities and approaches, which can be grouped by their economic dimension, social dimension and environmental dimension. Multicriteria techniques, such as the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), can help elicit the priorities and the relative importance of different functions attributed by the society as a whole. The authorities can take into account these results to inform and support their political decisions. This paper describes a methodological approach to determine the Social Welfare Function by using AHP. The proposed methodology is applied to the “Huerta de Valencia”, a rich peri-urban agricultural system with a variety of resources, around which there is an open political-institutional debate to define a protection scheme. The results are very interesting and useful to enrich this debate.

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Review of methods and evidence for economic valuation of agricultural non-commodity outputs and suggestions to facilitate its application to broader decisional contexts

Cited by 49 publications

References 30 publications

Reviewing the dynamics of economic values and preferences for ecosystem goods and services

Reviewing the dynamics of economic values and preferences for ecosystem goods and services

Ecosystem services and agricultural land-use practices: a case study of the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh

Evaluating the functionality of agricultural systems: social preferences for multifunctional peri-urban agriculture. The “Huerta de Valencia” as case study

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