The Effect of Rental Rates on the Extension of Conservation Reserve Program Contracts

Cooper, Joseph; Osborn, C. Tim

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“…If the current GTGP can be renewed with the same payment (250 yuan/mu), Ͼ90% of GTGP land plots could be saved from reconversion. This finding is quite different from that in studies of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in the United States, where maintaining enrolled land was much more expensive than the original cost (42). Compared to the land set aside in the CRP, the GTGP land plots have high costs of reconversion due to reforestation in the land plots.…”

Section: Effects Of Social Norms and Conservation Payment On Re-enrolcontrasting

confidence: 54%

“…One extra mu of cropland increased the probability of re-enrollment by 13.8% (Table 1). In contrast to other studies (42), livestock breeding did not affect people's re-enrollment intentions. Moreover, no effects of household size and total area of GTGP land plots on program re-enrollment were found ( Table 1).…”

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“…Individuals whose land-use decisions differ from the majority in the community may be exposed to social pressures from the community. Studies of individuals' participation in PES programs have focused on the incentives provided by conservation payments (33,42); little is known about the impacts of social norms at the neighborhood level on the sustainability of conservation, although substantial conservation benefits (e.g., through land enrolled in conservation contracting programs) may be produced with a relatively small change in policy or other exogenous factors due to social norms (43,44). To illustrate the impacts of social norms on the sustainability of conservation, we studied the impacts of subsequent policies on the land plots that have been enrolled in the Grain-to-Green Program (GTGP) in China's Wolong Nature Reserve.…”

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Linking social norms to efficient conservation investment in payments for ecosystem services

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An increasing amount of investment has been devoted to protecting and restoring ecosystem services worldwide. The efficiency of conservation investments, including payments for ecosystem services (PES), has been found to be affected by biological, political, economic, demographic, and social factors, but little is known about the effects of social norms at the neighborhood level. As a first attempt to quantify the effects of social norms, we studied the effects of a series of possible factors on people's intentions of maintaining forest on their Grain-to-Green Program (GTGP) land plots if the program ends. GTGP is one of the world's largest PES programs and plays an important role in global conservation efforts. Our study was conducted in China's Wolong Nature Reserve, home to the world-famous endangered giant pandas and >4,500 farmers. We found that, in addition to conservation payment amounts and program duration, social norms at the neighborhood level had significant impacts on program re-enrollment, suggesting that social norms can be used to leverage participation to enhance the sustainability of conservation benefits from PES programs. Moreover, our results demonstrate that economic and demographic trends also have profound implications for sustainable conservation. Thus, social norms should be incorporated with economic and demographic trends for efficient conservation investments.China ͉ Grain-to-Green Program ͉ program re-enrollment ͉ stated choice ͉ sustainability

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Section: Effects Of Social Norms and Conservation Payment On Re-enrolcontrasting

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“…In the context of the CRP, there have long been efforts to understand what happens to land when it exits the program, but no causal attribution of these results to CRP experience. Early surveys (for example, Cooper and Osborn, 1998;Johnson et al, 1997) Roberts and Lubowski (2007) look carefully at selectivity in CRP exit to estimate that 58% of CRP land would enter farming if the program were eliminated, and conclude that a large segment of ex-CRP land persists in conservation. However, none of these results can be compared to a counterfactual in which the land had never entered the CRP, since CRP land is likely to be quite different from non-CRP land.…”

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Temporal spillovers in land conservation

Jacobson

2014

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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Abstract:Temporal spillovers occur when a conservation program preserves land during a contract period but shifts non-conservation use to later-or, worse, induces more intensive use later. This may happen when conservation improves land so that returns to other uses are increased. I explore temporal spillovers of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). I use a pre-analysis sample specification step to choose counterfactual land most like the CRP land. I find that CRP causes some land to be 22-27% more likely to be farmed, potentially offsetting some environmental benefits. However, farmed ex-CRP land is slightly more likely to use a conservation practice.

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“…As suggested by the theories of reasoned action and planned behavior (Ajzen 1985, Fishbein andAjzen 2011), willingness or intention is often the strongest predictor of actual behavior. For example, the observed amount of cropland that households reenrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program in 2001 in the United States was close to that predicted based on survey data on households' stated willingness to participate, which was collected in 1993 (Cooper and Osborn 1998). In other contexts, such as purchase decisions, some literature indicated that stated and actual choices are highly correlated (e.g., Loureiro et al 2003).…”

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Feedback of telecoupling: the case of a payments for ecosystem services program

Yang¹,

Lupi²,

Zhang³

et al. 2018

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ABSTRACT. Around the globe, previously isolated rural areas are increasingly connected with other distant places (e.g., cities) by telecouplings (i.e., environmental and socioeconomic interactions over distances) such as payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs, labor migration, and tourism. Although many studies have estimated impacts of telecouplings in rural areas, little is known about how these impacts might in turn affect telecouplings themselves through feedbacks. Using household survey data collected in China's Wolong Nature Reserve for giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), we evaluated an unexpected impact of the telecoupling of the Grain to Green Program (GTGP)-one of the largest PES programs in the world. This impact may trigger a feedback that can strengthen the GTGP in the future. A previous study in Wolong found that afforestation on marginal cropland promoted by the GTGP has significantly intensified crop damage by wildlife on nearby remaining cropland. We evaluated how this change might in turn affect the GTGP by estimating the impact of crop damage induced by the current GTGP on local households' willingness to participate in possible future GTGP. Our results show that due to the impact of the current GTGP on crop damage, local households may enroll 10.4% more cropland that is close to the afforested lands in future GTGP, which suggests a positive feedback that will strengthen the influences of the GTGP in Wolong and beyond. Our study highlights that local human-nature interactions driven by telecouplings, such as human-wildlife conflicts, may trigger feedbacks that affect telecouplings themselves. With improved understanding of telecouplings' feedbacks, scientists, policy-makers, and conservation practitioners can better anticipate the complex interactions among different places and design effective conservation strategies for achieving sustainability objectives such as those set by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

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The Effect of Rental Rates on the Extension of Conservation Reserve Program Contracts

Cited by 77 publications

References 9 publications

Linking social norms to efficient conservation investment in payments for ecosystem services

Linking social norms to efficient conservation investment in payments for ecosystem services

Temporal spillovers in land conservation

Feedback of telecoupling: the case of a payments for ecosystem services program

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