Payments for environmental services with provision thresholds: farmers' preferences for a conditional bonus ; Payments for environmental services with provision thresholds: farmers' preferences for a conditional bonus: Contributed Paper prepared for presentation at the 96th Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Society, K U Leuven, Belgium

International audience ; The effectiveness of payment schemes for delivering agri-environmental public goods with provision thresholds (biodiversity, water quality) depends on reaching enough farmland enrolment at the landscape scale. Supporting the development of collaborative approaches with a financial bonus conditioned to a collective element on top of an individual basic payment is a promising way to favour participation and continuity of environmental commitments in an area. However, little is known on farmers' attitudes towards such mixed-payment mechanisms. Using a choice experiment, w... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Le Gloux, Fanny
Dupraz, Pierre, P.
Issanchou, Alice
Ropars-Collet, Carole
Dokumenttyp: conferenceObject
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
Verlag/Hrsg.: HAL CCSD
Schlagwörter: Water quality / Choice experiment / Collective action / Payment for environmental services / Conditional bonus / [SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environment and Society / [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
Sprache: Englisch
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International audience ; The effectiveness of payment schemes for delivering agri-environmental public goods with provision thresholds (biodiversity, water quality) depends on reaching enough farmland enrolment at the landscape scale. Supporting the development of collaborative approaches with a financial bonus conditioned to a collective element on top of an individual basic payment is a promising way to favour participation and continuity of environmental commitments in an area. However, little is known on farmers' attitudes towards such mixed-payment mechanisms. Using a choice experiment, we measure farmers' preferences towards an individual bonus for sponsoring peers, which can be combined with a collective bonus for improving the ecological quality of rivers in northwestern France. Applying a mixed logit model, we find that respondents have a positive willingness to accept contracts with a sponsor bonus, but a negative willingness to accept a sponsor bonus combined with a bonus for reaching a collective environmental objective. We characterize respondents' heterogeneity with a latent class model and identify 3 different attitudes towards the bonus options: (i) negative preferences for both, particularly for the combined bonus, (ii) indifference, (iii) positive preferences for both, even higher for the combined bonus.