Agri‐environmental Schemes Require Improved Design for Better Outcomes

IF 2.4 Q2 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY EuroChoices Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI:10.1111/1746-692x.12441
Chi Nguyen, Uwe Latacz‐Lohmann, Nick Hanley
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SummaryAdvocacy for a shift from an individual farm‐level to a landscape‐level approach in agri‐environmental policy is a focal point in the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. Such a shift aims to address spatial mismatches between ecological processes and targeted environmental outcomes, and to harness potential ecological gains from spatial coordination. However, there remains limited understanding of how to design effective mechanisms aimed at encouraging coordination among landholders. Do landscape configurations influence the effectiveness of coordination mechanisms? This article aims to assess the effectiveness of alternative coordination mechanisms incorporated in the design of a conservation auction across alternative landscape configurations, that is, in terms of the spatial relationship between some measure of environmental benefit – such as wild bird species diversity – and the profitability of farmland. These mechanisms include landholder‐to‐landholder communication, disclosure of spatial environmental scoring rules, and the Agglomeration Bonus. We used lab experiments to evaluate these options. Our results suggest that there is no panacea for promoting landscape‐level environmental outcomes. Communication proves capable of significantly facilitating coordination, whilst information disclosure policies can serve as an effective coordination mechanism in multiple landscape types. By contrast, the Agglomeration Bonus was only found to effectively promote coordination in a positively correlated landscape type. It leads to lower cost‐effectiveness in all landscape types.
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摘要 倡导农业环境政策从单个农场层面向景观层面转变,是共同农业政策改革的一个焦点。这种转变旨在解决生态过程与目标环境结果之间的空间不匹配问题,并利用空间协调带来的潜在生态收益。然而,人们对如何设计旨在鼓励土地所有者之间协调的有效机制的了解仍然有限。景观配置是否会影响协调机制的有效性?本文旨在评估在设计保护拍卖时所采用的替代协调机制在不同景观配置下的有效性,即从某种环境效益衡量标准(如野生鸟类物种多样性)与农田收益率之间的空间关系的角度进行评估。这些机制包括土地所有者与土地所有者之间的交流、空间环境评分规则的披露以及聚集红利(Agglomeration Bonus)。我们利用实验室实验对这些方案进行了评估。我们的结果表明,并没有促进景观级环境成果的灵丹妙药。事实证明,沟通能够极大地促进协调,而信息披露政策则可以在多种景观类型中作为一种有效的协调机制。相比之下,只有在正相关的景观类型中,聚集红利才能有效促进协调。它在所有景观类型中都会导致较低的成本效益。
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EuroChoices
EuroChoices AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY-
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5.20
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期刊介绍: EuroChoices is a full colour, peer reviewed, outreach journal of topical European agri-food and rural resource issues, published three times a year in April, August and December. Its main aim is to bring current research and policy deliberations on agri-food and rural resource issues to a wide readership, both technical & non-technical. The need for this is clear - there are great changes afoot in the European and global agri-food industries and rural areas, which are of enormous impact and concern to society. The issues which underlie present deliberations in the policy and private sectors are complex and, until now, normally expressed in impenetrable technical language.
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