Conjoint Analysis of Farmers’ Response to Conservation Incentives

Conner, David S.; Miller, Jennifer Christine; Zia, Asim; Wang, Qingbin; Darby, Heather

doi:10.3390/su8070684

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“…They suggested that the incentives to be made to ensure maximum participation in adoption should be determined based on local costs. Conner et al [16] investigated the reasons for the lack of participation in the conservation incentive program to adopt the BMPs offered by United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to prevent environmental degradation threatens the long term resiliency of the agriculture and food system in the USA based on the WTA. It was determined that the reason for the low participation was that the public incentives remained below the desired compensation and implementation costs by the farmers.…”

Section: Barriers To Sustainable Agriculture: Pricing and Public Supportmentioning

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Farmers’ Attitudes to the Pricing of Natural Resources for Sustainability: GAP-Şanlıurfa Sampling of Turkey

Aydoğdu

2019

Water

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This research aims to evaluate farmers’ attitudes to the pricing of natural resources, mainly water and soil resources, in GAP-Şanlıurfa-Turkey. It will also define farmers’ willingness to accept pricing for the sustainability of resources and explore the potential factors that contribute to such willingness. The data comes from a sample of 1105 farmers in Şanlıurfa who were chosen by a simple random sampling method and participants were interviewed face to face by questionnaires. The logistic regression is used for analysis. The results indicate that 40% of the farmers have a positive attitude to the pricing of resources for protection and sustainability. The most affecting factors are the location of the farmers, the number of agricultural manpower at the household, land amount, ownership status, income derived from agriculture, and livestock. The average willingness-to-pay amount was calculated in USD as $48.8/ha. Where public finance is insufficient to meet the demands, the willingness-to-pay amount may be used in co-investments. In this way, both the financing problem can be overcome and the ownership rate of the users can be increased. Therefore, the results could be helpful for decision- and policy-makers to develop strategies for the sustainability of resources for GAP-Turkey and areas with similar socioeconomic characteristics.

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Section: Barriers To Sustainable Agriculture: Pricing and Public Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Farmers’ Attitudes to the Pricing of Natural Resources for Sustainability: GAP-Şanlıurfa Sampling of Turkey

Aydoğdu

2019

Water

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“…In CA studies, a balance between statistical efficiency and response efficiency is sought 38. In this sense, an orthogonal array was used to reduce from 54 to 9 the number of cards presented in the survey, seeking to enhance the quality of the results 39. In addition, this unlabelled experiment offered different UHPs, each as a set of criteria (attributes) without identifying the points of mastitis control plan (eg, post‐dipping),28 which helped to reduce bias associated with particular interventions based on professional interests and/or personal gains 40…”

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Preference of veterinarians to select an udder health programme for milk producers

Vissio

Richardet

Chaves³

et al. 2019

Veterinary Record Open

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BackgroundThis investigation was carried out to gain more insight about the preference of veterinarians on the implementation of an udder health programme (UHP) in a dairy farm.MethodsA choice experiment was designed to elicit the preferences of the participants. The study population consisted of 36 veterinarians from Argentina specialised on milk quality. The choice experiment offered several UHPs, which were combinations of some of the interventions included in the so-called five-point plan. To reduce bias among the participants, the UHPs offered were unlabelled and considered two farm contexts: one was on a pasture system and the other was on a dry-lot with pasture access system. The basic criteria (the so-called attribute) to describe veterinarians’ preferences for each UHP proposed were efficacy on clinical mastitis (CM) and bulk milk somatic cell count (BMSCC) reduction, cost and technical support. The data collected were analysed using conjoint analysis.ResultsUHP cost and UHP efficacy on BMSCC and CM had a significant influence on veterinarians’ ranking decisions under both dairy production contexts. The efficacy on CM was the most important attribute to prefer a particular UHP, while technical assistance was the least important attribute considered. The attributes related to efficacy on both BMSCC and CM explained over 60 per cent of the total importance of all attributes.ConclusionTo the authors’ knowledge, this is the first research in South America focused on studying veterinarians’ preferences to suggest a UHP. The cost and efficacy attributes were the veterinarians’ top priority attributes to decide the best UHP.

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“…Conjoint analysis is a popular technique used in market research with the idea that a product can be described by its attributes and their levels. In recent years, it has been applied to a number of studies to estimate the farmers' preference towards varietal traits, seed sector, conservation incentives (Patil et al, 2006;Mafuru et al, 2007;Basavaraj et al, 2015;Conner et al, 2016,). The conjoint measurement allows estimation of the impact of individual attribute levels on the overall utility of a product (Annunziata & Vecchio, 2013) The first step of the analysis is to identify the appropriate attributes and their levels important to the farmers.…”

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Understanding pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) production conditions, stakeholders’ preferences for varietal traits and their implications for breeding programmes in India

Fromm

Singh

Venkatesh

et al. 2020

Preprint

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Pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) is an important pulse crop in the Indian diet and one of the most important sources of dietary protein for the population. In the context of the fourth phase of the Indo-Swiss Collaboration in Biotechnology, an assessment how farmers and consumers perceive new pigeon pea cultivars and what are their preferred traits was conducted. This investigation assessed India's food security implications due to stagnating and low yield of pigeon pea and ascertain farmers' preferences of pigeon pea varietal traits, production constraints and farmers' coping strategies in diverse pigeon pea production environments. Results indicated that production constraints in the studied regions were basically similar, with majority of the farmers identifying pod borer & pod fly as the major pest, and wilt as the major disease and drought as a major production constraint. Farmers indicated the use of clean seed, high yielding varieties, inter & mixed cropping, planting density, and manure application as some of the strategies they used to cope with the production constraints. In terms of preference for new cultivars, farmers want high grain yield with drought tolerance, medium to early maturity, pod borer resistance, tolerance to wilt disease, moderate plant height and ease of threshing without compromising other preferred attributes. The analysis of processors' preference of grain types for dal processing showed that uniform size, oval shape, orange coloured seed and most importantly moderately hard seed coat are highly desirable. Consumers lacked awareness on the varieties, but considered traits like uniform seeds and reduced cooking time traits more desirable.

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Conjoint Analysis of Farmers’ Response to Conservation Incentives

Cited by 16 publications

References 41 publications

Farmers’ Attitudes to the Pricing of Natural Resources for Sustainability: GAP-Şanlıurfa Sampling of Turkey

Farmers’ Attitudes to the Pricing of Natural Resources for Sustainability: GAP-Şanlıurfa Sampling of Turkey

Preference of veterinarians to select an udder health programme for milk producers

Understanding pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) production conditions, stakeholders’ preferences for varietal traits and their implications for breeding programmes in India

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