Environmental policies for a multifunctional agricultural sector in open economies

Peterson, Jeffrey M.; Boisvert, Richard N.; Gorter, Harry de

doi:10.1093/eurrag/29.4.423

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“…Another category of agriculture's externalities is the formulation of agricultural landscapes (Lindland, 1998, Peterson et al, 2002, Casini et al, 2004. These landscapes include both natural and man-made elements which reflect structural changes in the sector as well as social, cultural and political changes that occurred during centuries.…”

Section: Agriculture's Multifunctionality In the Policy Agendamentioning

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“…Many authors have examined the effects of price policies on the production of non-traded outputs (Randall, 2002, Peterson et al, 2002, Romstad, 2004a, the implications of joint production of traded and non-traded outputs (Paarlberg et al, 2002, Havlik et al, 2005 and the possibilities of valuing agriculture's externalities (Boody et al, 2005). The valuation of multifunctional aspects of agriculture, on continent scale, has been highlighted by Randall (2002).…”

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Valuation of environmental and social functions of the multifunctional Cypriot agriculture

Ragkos

Theodoridis

2016

Land Use Policy

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Abstract. The multifunctional farm sector in Cyprus poses threats on the island's water resources, but also highly contributes to preserving the cultural identity, incomes and employment in rural areas. This paper presents an application of the Choice Experiment method, in order to evaluate these features of Cypriot agriculture, which are externalities, as farmers are not remunerated in markets for such services. The results of the empirical analysis demonstrate that the Cypriot public is in favor of a less intensive pattern of agriculture. Furthermore, Cypriots are willing to pay in order to mitigate adverse environmental effects of agriculture, to improve cultural heritage and to safeguard the continuation of farming trade on the island. The estimated benefits often exceed income losses from changes in the cropping pattern, which verifies that EU rural development policies are regarded as beneficial by the public.

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Section: Agriculture's Multifunctionality In the Policy Agendamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Valuation of environmental and social functions of the multifunctional Cypriot agriculture

Ragkos

Theodoridis

2016

Land Use Policy

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“…3 Our model is broader in conception than those of McConnell (1989) who only includes three types of land use but does not address pollution, Lopez, Shah and altobello (1994) that abstract from forest land and pollution, and Peterson, boisvert and de Gorter (2002) who jointly address rural amenity benefits and pollution, but restrict their analysis to agricultural land use. 4 Equations (3) and (4) give a simplified representation of the agricultural production system with one aggregate final output Y 1 that includes livestock and crop products.…”

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Multifunctional Agriculture and the Preservation of Environmental Benefits

Hediger

Lehmann

2007

Swiss J Economics Statistics

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Summary We investigate environmental aspects of agriculture from a welfare economic perspective and show that efficiency prices of agricultural and forest land include important amenity and non-use values that exhibit the character of undepletable externalities. To achieve a social optimum these must be internalised, while taking equity concerns into account. We propose compensation of farmers and forest managers according to the marginal external benefit of their land use and a combination of charges and subsidies to improve rural water quality. This is consistent with efficiency requirements and would not cause additional market distortions. Moreover, it would leave the property rights on the land with the farmers and assign the right on clean air and water to the consumers.

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“…The importance of the public good characteristics of private agricultural areas has recently been emphasised, particularly in the Pouta, E. & Ovaskainen, V. Assessing the recreational demand for agricultural land in Finland framework of multifunctional agriculture (OECD 2001, Dobbs andPretty 2004). As the current level of public subsidies to agriculture has been challenged, their justification has partly been found in multifunctionality (Peterson 2002). The multiple functions of agriculture consist of non-market goods produced concurrently with food and fibre.…”

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Assessing the recreational demand for agricultural land in Finland

Pouta¹,

Ovaskainen²

2008

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It is widely assumed that the scenic attractiveness and other public good aspects of agricultural land can be utilized as a source of livelihood in rural areas in the form of recreation and tourism. In this study we use two approaches to consider whether agricultural landscapes are preferred as a destination for recreation (day trips) and rural tourism (overnight trips). We first analyse the choice of recreation site type based on a model that aggregates sites using the presence of agricultural land as an aggregation variable. Population survey data on recreation trips reveal an association between the respondent's living environment, recreational activities and visit characteristics and the probability of choosing a destination with agricultural land. Second, we also estimate the demand functions for trips to agricultural sites and other destination types to consider whether the presence of agricultural land, as opposed to other land use categories, increases the number of trips and the benefits of recreation. The results suggest that agricultural landscapes are inferior to alternative site types in terms of per-trip benefits. However, agricultural landscapes are associated with high annual benefits because of the high rate of visitation.

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Environmental policies for a multifunctional agricultural sector in open economies

Cited by 74 publications

References 26 publications

Valuation of environmental and social functions of the multifunctional Cypriot agriculture

Valuation of environmental and social functions of the multifunctional Cypriot agriculture

Multifunctional Agriculture and the Preservation of Environmental Benefits

Assessing the recreational demand for agricultural land in Finland

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