Evaluating the demand for carbon sequestration in olive grove soils as a strategy toward mitigating climate change

Rodríguez-Entrena, Macario; Barreiro‐Hurlé, Jesús; Gómez‐Limón, José A.; Espinosa-Goded, María; Castro-Rodríguez, Juan

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.08.004

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“…For instance, using estimates obtained from Rodríguez-Entrena et al (2012), Andalusian society's compensating surplus for implementing M_25 would be €103.7/ha, and €204.8/ha for AES_Max 7 . Accordingly, for both AES scenarios, there would be a net benefit from their implementation if payments were established below those figures (assuming zero transaction costs).…”

Section: Aes Scenarios In Olive Growingmentioning

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The design of agri-environmental schemes: Farmers’ preferences in southern Spain

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Agri-environmental schemes (AES) play a key role in promoting the production of environmental public goods by European Union agriculture. Although extensive literature has analyzed AES, some important issues remain understudied. This paper performs an ex-ante assessment of AES in permanent cropping, analyzing several issues that have received little attention from researchers, such as ecological focus areas (EFA) and collective participation. For this purpose, a choice experiment was used to assess farmers' preferences toward AES in a case study of olive groves in southern Spain. Results show high heterogeneity among farmers, with different classes being identified, from potential participants to non-participants. As regards EFA, almost half of the farmers would be willing to accept it for low monetary incentives (€8-9/ha per additional 1% of the farmland devoted to EFA) while the rest would do it for moderate-to-high monetary incentives (€41-151/ha per additional 1% of EFA). However, for a high share of EFA (e.g., 5-7%) higher incentives would presumably be required due to the intrinsic spatial restrictions of olive groves. With regard to collective participation, we find that it is unlikely that farmers would participate collectively with the incentive of the up-to-30% EU-wide bonus. These results are relevant for policy-making now when new AES are being designed for the next programming period 2014-2020.

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“…These authors found that soil fertility, visual quality of the landscape, biodiversity and contribution to fighting climate change are the four PGs with the greatest potential for improvement from a supply perspective. Moreover, all of these PGs are in high demand in European (EC, 2010b) and Andalusian (Rodríguez-Entrena et al, 2012;2014a;Salazar et al, 2013) societies. Thus, it is reasonable to state that any AES for IOG should focus on agronomic practices aimed at increasing the provision of these PGs.…”

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“…We used this continuous mixed logit solution (RPL model) instead of the discrete one (i.e., latent class model) because we did not expect farmers to be grouped into homogeneous classes that differed from one another in function of preferences toward AES, but rather farmers belonging to a homogeneous agricultural system (IOG) where there is some preference heterogeneity related to farm/ farmer characteristics. A number of studies have shown the RPL model to be a very effective way of examining preference heterogeneity, especially when evaluating environmental PGs (Scarpa & Thiene, 2005;Rodríguez-Entrena et al, 2012), and agri-environmental policies (Ruto & Garrod, 2009;Espinosa-Goded et al, profiles (D-efficiency=91.3%). This design allowed the analysis of main and second-order effects, though the latter were found to be not significant.…”

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“…The 'costs' of AES implementation estimated in the present supply-side analysis should therefore be compared to the social gains obtained from such implementation, to ensure that net social welfare gains are achieved. Although this complementary analysis is beyond the scope of this paper, some approximate figures can be provided by using the estimates of social gains for Andalusian society shown by Rodríguez-Entrena et al (2012) and some technical coefficients for the production of PGs provided in the specialized literature. Such an exploratory analysis from the demand side gives rise to an average total WTA ranging from €17.2/ha to €115.4/ha for implementing the least (EFA_2) and the most stringent (AES_Max) individual-AES scenario, respectively 6 .…”

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Assessment of greening and collective participation in the context of agri-environmental schemes: The case of Andalusian irrigated olive groves

Villanueva

Gómez‐Limón

Arriaza

et al. 2015

Span. j. agric. res.

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Agri-environmental schemes (AES) in irrigated olive groves (IOG) in southern Spain were assessed based on farmers' preferences toward these schemes. A choice experiment was used in this ex-ante assessment, with the inclusion of some innovative elements, such as collective participation and ecological focus areas (EFA). The results showed that farmers' mean willingness to accept (WTA) participation in collective rather than individual AES was €124.5/ha. Their mean WTA for an additional 1% of EFA was €64.6/ha, while regarding the use of other agri-environmental practices, they showed a WTA of €6.3/ha and €114.7/ha for an additional 1% in the use of cover crops (CC) in olive grove areas and restrictive management of CC, respectively. These estimates were strongly influenced by farmers' expectations and socio-economic characteristics, as well as farm management. We obtained that farmers' expectations of no farm takeover reduce WTA for collective participation, whereas agricultural training and having at least a secondary-school education reduce farmers' WTA for EFA and restrictive management of the CC, respectively. Conversely, harvesting ground olives increased farmers' WTA for a high proportion of the area under CC. The analysis of the AES scenarios showed moderately high estimates of total WTA (€101-349/ha), especially when collective participation is required (€225-474/ha). The results supported the argument that there are efficient ways to encourage public goods provision, overcoming trade-offs with private goods provision by identifying the type of joint production.Additional key words: AES; agglomeration bonus; ecological focus areas; soil conservation; public goods; choice experiment. This work has one supplementary figure published online alongside the electronic version of the article.

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“…In Sicily, olive-tree cultivation is favoured by the Mediterranean climate 2012;Rodríguez-Entrena et al, 2012;D'Asaro et al, 2014;D'Asaro and Grillone, 2012;Agnese et al, 2008). Above and beyond a purely economic facet, olive-growing portrays an irreplaceable role in environmental protection, while safeguarding the agricultural ecosystem as well as preserving the landscape (Mohamad et al, 2013;Avraamides and Fatta, 2008;FranciaMartínez et al, 2006).…”

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Economic Analysis of Process Innovations in the Management of Olive Farms

Testa¹,

Trapani²,

Sgroi³

et al. 2014

American Journal of Applied Sciences

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Within a business enterprise, process innovations lead to reduced production costs and to increased profit margins. In this study, we shall examine an olive farm that operates in a perfectly competitive market that has introduced a process innovation so as to contain labour costs and therefore production costs. So, the paper aimed at comparing economic competitiveness of an olive farm that introduced mechanical olive pickers (process innovation) for harvest respect to manual harvest. In the case under scrutiny, for the same price, the reduced production cost determined a shift from a situation of being at a loss to one of profit for the business. Economic analysis showed that introduction of mechanical olive pickers can determine a competitive advantage in small and medium-sized olive farms of Mediterranean areas which decide to mechanize the harvest.

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Evaluating the demand for carbon sequestration in olive grove soils as a strategy toward mitigating climate change

Cited by 46 publications

References 30 publications

The design of agri-environmental schemes: Farmers’ preferences in southern Spain

The design of agri-environmental schemes: Farmers’ preferences in southern Spain

Assessment of greening and collective participation in the context of agri-environmental schemes: The case of Andalusian irrigated olive groves

Economic Analysis of Process Innovations in the Management of Olive Farms

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