Rotational grazing adoption in cattle production under a cost‐share agreement: does uncertainty have a role in conservation technology adoption?

Kim, Seon Ae; Gillespie, Jeffrey M.; Paudel, Krishna P.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8489.2007.00434.x

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“…In line with other studies (Davies and Hodge 2006;Bewsell et al 2007;Kim et al 2008) the landholder survey was found to be a useful tool for identifying the attitudes, impediments and drivers of management adoption amongst landholders (Bewsell et al 2007). In this case, the survey provided an understanding of the broad impediments to and perceived benefits of adoption of water quality management.…”

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“…However, there are many factors influencing the adoption of on-farm water quality management measures by landholders (Rhodes et al 2002;MacGregor and Warren 2006;Kim et al 2008;Prokopy et al 2008;Greiner et al 2009). The relative significance of these impediments can vary both between catchments and between individual farmers within catchments (Pannell et al 2006;Bewsell et al 2007).…”

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Designing a Policy Mix and Sequence for Mitigating Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution in a Water Supply Catchment

Bryan

Kandulu

2010

Water Resour Manage

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Agricultural non-point source pollution, common in water supply catchments worldwide, can have significant environmental and human health impacts, and its mitigation poses a challenge for policymakers. We used deliberative multi-criteria evaluation (DMCE) to identify a mix and sequence of policy instruments (or policy design) to address agricultural non-point source pollution using a case study of Cryptosporidium contamination in the Myponga River water supply catchment, South Australia. The major impediments to adoption of on-farm water quality management and benefits for ecosystem services were identified using a landholder survey for use as decision criteria in DMCE. The DMCE approach involved stakeholders in policy design during two community fora held in the catchment. We developed six policy scenarios and quantified their impact on decision criteria. The relative importance of decision criteria was quantified using swing weights and consensus was reached on the preferred policy scenario. The mix, sequence, and targeting of instruments in the preferred policy scenario were refined based on information obtained through the deliberative process. Impediments to adoption included a lack of both information/knowledge and financial resources. The recommended policy scenario involved targeted information, followed by an incentive program, and finally the regulation of a mandatory code of practice for water quality management. Detailed, catchmentspecific context obtained through DMCE was critical for refining an effective mix and sequence of policy instruments. The techniques may be readily used to select and schedule policy instruments for effective mitigation of agricultural non-point source pollution in other drinking water supply catchments elsewhere.

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Designing a Policy Mix and Sequence for Mitigating Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution in a Water Supply Catchment

Bryan

Kandulu

2010

Water Resour Manage

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“…• Higher revenue (Kim et al, 2008) • Higher productivity (Kim et al, 2008;Hiwassee River Watershed Coalition Inc., 2008;Vendramini and Sollenberger, 2010;Eaton et al, 2011) • Lower profitability at similar stocking rates • Improved long-term profitability (Murphy, 1998;Undersander et al, 2002) Higher stocking rate (Eaton et al, 2011) • Significant initial investment cost and increased management costs (Ball et al, 1999). • High start-up costs for fencing, water, and feed bunks (Hiwassee River Watershed…”

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Co-benefits and trade-offs between agriculture and conservation: A case study in Northern Australia

Stoeckl

Chaiechi

Farr

et al. 2015

Biological Conservation

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“…Similarly, Kim et al (2008) found that cattle producers were reluctant to answer contingent valuation questions. …”

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Income value of private amenities assessed in California oak woodlands

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Huntsinger²,

Campos³

et al. 2012

Cal Ag

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Landowners in California were surveyed using a contingent valuation technique to assess its usefulness in estimating the monetary income value of private amenities from their oak woodland properties. Private amenities -such as recreation, scenic beauty and a rural lifestyle -are considered an important influence on rangeland owners, but few studies have attempted to place a monetary income value on them. Landowners were asked to estimate the maximum amount of earnings that they were willing to forgo before selling their property to invest in more commercially profitable, nonagrarian assets, and the proportion of the land price that they thought was explained by private amenities from their land. On average, landowners were willing to pay $54 per acre annually for private amenities, and they attributed 57% of the land price to them. Regression analysis revealed that the landowners' willingness to pay per acre decreased as property size increased. This approach sheds light on how landowners value the benefits of land ownership and offers insights for outreach and policy development for privately owned oak woodlands. P rivate amenities from California oak woodlands -including benefits such as recreational opportunities, scenic beauty, living in the country, and protecting wildlife and water qualityare important influences on landowner decisions and income (Huntsinger et al. 2010). Efforts to value these amenities in California and other Western states have included analyses of the relationship between land prices and property size (Pope 1985), tree density (Diamond et al. 1987), distance to open space (Standiford and Scott 2002) and production value (Torell et al. 2005). The most common commercial land use in oak woodlands is livestock grazing (Huntsinger et al. 2010), but throughout the West, private amenities are believed to be an important factor in explaining why land prices for ranches exceed their commercial production value (Torell et al. 2005). With land-use change and fragmentation threatening the extensive habitat and watershed benefits provided by private oak woodlands, understanding landowners' decisions and values is a conservation priority.Advocates of conserving areas that produce crops, livestock, hunting or timber, as well as other ecosystem services, call them "working landscapes," a term that fits oak woodlands well. The concept of ecosystem services is commonly defined as the benefits people obtain from ecosystems. Continued ecosystem services from oak woodlands depend largely on the commercial profitability of ranches, their amenity value to their owners and the opportunity costs of competing land uses -in other words, on the cost of maintaining oak woodland ownership measured as the foregone benefits from using the land for something else or selling it. Estimating values for private amenities can contribute to our understanding of landowners' decisions and their responsiveness to outreach and policies for oak woodlands. This is also important for assessing the economic value of the natural res...

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Rotational grazing adoption in cattle production under a cost‐share agreement: does uncertainty have a role in conservation technology adoption?

Cited by 21 publications

References 33 publications

Designing a Policy Mix and Sequence for Mitigating Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution in a Water Supply Catchment

Designing a Policy Mix and Sequence for Mitigating Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution in a Water Supply Catchment

Co-benefits and trade-offs between agriculture and conservation: A case study in Northern Australia

Income value of private amenities assessed in California oak woodlands

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