Using farmers' ex ante preferences to design agri-environmental contracts: A systematic review

IF 3.4 2区 经济学 Q1 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2023-12-19 DOI:10.1111/1477-9552.12570
Christoph Schulze, Katarzyna Zagórska, Kati Häfner, Olimpia Markiewicz, Mikołaj Czajkowski, Bettina Matzdorf
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Ensuring that farmers' ex ante preferences are accounted for is crucial for the design of effective agri-environmental contracts. We present a systematic review of 127 discrete choice experiment (DCE) studies of farmers' preferences with respect to agri-environmental contracts. DCE studies evaluate two central features of farmers' behaviour: (1) their willingness to accept land use prescriptions, such as fertiliser use, application of pesticides, restrictions on cropping, livestock management, integration of silvopasture, maintaining soil health or water use restrictions; and (2) their responses to variations in incentive and commitment criteria, such as reward schemes, monitoring regimes, technical assistance, flexibility of agreements, administrative burden and collaborative implementation. Our analysis considers how these different elements are interlinked and applied in experiments to simulate farmers' decision-making processes. We examine recent methodological improvements in explaining farmer behaviour, including the accommodation of preference heterogeneity, the combining of discrete (enrolment) and continuous decisions, and the incorporation of farmers' sense of identity. DCEs have been applied for the ex ante analysis of different policy instruments to inform the European Common Agricultural Policy and agri-environmental schemes outside the EU. The results of this systematic review may be useful in informing the future design of such agri-environmental programmes. The database underpinning this systematic literature review may help peer scientists to (a) compare, validate and triangulate their own findings with respect to other experimental approaches, (b) use previous willingness-to-accept (WTA) measures as priors for their own study design, and (c) identify research gaps regarding farmers' preferences for agri-environmental measures.

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利用农民的事前偏好设计农业环境合同:系统回顾
确保事先考虑到农民的偏好对于设计有效的农业环境合同至关重要。我们对 127 项关于农民对农业环境合同偏好的离散选择实验 (DCE) 研究进行了系统回顾。离散选择实验研究评估了农民行为的两个核心特征:(1) 他们接受土地使用规定的意愿,如化肥使用、农药施用、种植限制、牲畜管理、林草一体化、保持土壤健康或用水限制;(2) 他们对激励和承诺标准变化的反应,如奖励计划、监测制度、技术援助、协议灵活性、行政负担和合作实施。我们的分析考虑了这些不同要素之间的相互联系,并将其应用于模拟农民决策过程的实验中。我们研究了最近在解释农民行为方面的方法改进,包括对偏好异质性的适应、离散决策(登记)与连续决策的结合,以及农民认同感的纳入。DCEs 已被用于不同政策工具的事前分析,为欧洲共同农业政策和欧盟以外的农业环境计划提供信息。本系统综述的结果可能有助于为未来此类农业环境计划的设计提供参考。作为本系统性文献综述基础的数据库可帮助同行科学家:(a)将自己的研究结果与其他实验方法进行比较、验证和三角测量;(b)将以前的接受意愿(WTA)测量结果作为自己研究设计的先验;以及(c)确定农民对农业环境措施偏好方面的研究缺口。
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Journal of Agricultural Economics
Journal of Agricultural Economics 管理科学-农业经济与政策
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7.90
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2.90%
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48
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>24 weeks
期刊介绍: Published on behalf of the Agricultural Economics Society, the Journal of Agricultural Economics is a leading international professional journal, providing a forum for research into agricultural economics and related disciplines such as statistics, marketing, business management, politics, history and sociology, and their application to issues in the agricultural, food, and related industries; rural communities, and the environment. Each issue of the JAE contains articles, notes and book reviews as well as information relating to the Agricultural Economics Society. Published 3 times a year, it is received by members and institutional subscribers in 69 countries. With contributions from leading international scholars, the JAE is a leading citation for agricultural economics and policy. Published articles either deal with new developments in research and methods of analysis, or apply existing methods and techniques to new problems and situations which are of general interest to the Journal’s international readership.
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