Motivations and attitudes influence farmers' willingness to participate in biodiversity conservation contracts

Greiner, Romy

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2015.04.005

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“…LCAs particularly consider their work to be influencing farmers' perceptions and attitudes towards nature conservation and nature conservation measures; these are the variables with the highest level of affirmation. Farmers' perceptions and attitudes are important drivers in the decision-making process for whether to participate [36,39,41,58,59]. On the one hand, the results as stated by LCAs could indicate that the pure presence of LCAs and their local involvement in the region almost always impacts farmers' perceptions of nature conservation and their attitudes towards the respective measures.…”

Section: The Influence On Participation and Targetingmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…While information and assistance improves farmers' willingness to adopt AEMs, it does not necessarily result in more contracts signed. Although for some farmers, the adoption of conservation practices is based on altruistic motives or lifestyle goals [41], this is not the case for the all farmers [58]. A farmer's decision to participate in conservation measures is generally the outcome of "complex interactions of social and cultural as well as economic and policy influences" [59].…”

Section: The Importance Of Agri-environmental Information and Assistancementioning

confidence: 99%

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How Local Intermediaries Improve the Effectiveness of Public Payment for Ecosystem Services Programs: The Role of Networks and Agri-Environmental Assistance

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Large governmental payments for ecosystem services programs (PES) have frequently been criticized for their limited environmental effectiveness. The use of local intermediaries has been considered as one possibility for improving the environmental effectiveness of such programs. German Landcare Associations (LCAs) have been identified as one intermediary that holds the potential to positively influence the implementation of agri-environmental measures (AEMs). This paper empirically assesses the involvement of LCAs in the context of AEM implementation in Germany. An online questionnaire was distributed to all LCAs in Germany. In a first step, we examine if LCAs (1) provide social networks between stakeholders and (2) provide agri-environmental information and assistance to farmers. In a second step, the LCAs assess (3) their perception of how strongly their work influences farmers' participation in PES schemes and (4) if they pursue the spatial targeting of AEMs. In a third step, we relate the relative level of social networks and the provision of agri-environmental information and assistance to their stated influence on farmers' participation in and spatial targeting of AEMs. Finally we derive overall conclusions on how intermediaries can enhance the effectiveness of PES programs in general.

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Section: The Importance Of Agri-environmental Information and Assistancementioning

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How Local Intermediaries Improve the Effectiveness of Public Payment for Ecosystem Services Programs: The Role of Networks and Agri-Environmental Assistance

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“…In particular, in applied economics, different attitudinal and psychological theories have been used: for example, the implementations of Ajzen's theory of planned behaviour [85] by [86], [87], [88] and of Rogers' protection motivation theory [89] by [44] to rationalize differences in stated choice behaviour and how this correlates with real choice. The present contribution demonstrates, yet again, the advantages of bringing into applied economics theories derived from other disciplines to enrich the explanatory power of more conventional approaches by means of theoretically meaningful constructs.…”

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Adoption of renewable heating systems: An empirical test of the diffusion of innovation theory

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Scarpa

et al. 2017

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractThe implementation of heating technologies based on renewable resources is an important part of Italy's energy policy. Yet, despite efforts to promote the uptake of such technologies, their diffusion is still limited while heating systems based on fossil fuels are still predominant. Theory suggests that beliefs and attitudes of individual consumers play a crucial role in the diffusion of innovative products. However, empirical studies corroborating such observations are still thin on the ground. We use a Choice Experiment and a Latent Class-Random Parameter model to analyze preferences of households in the Veneto region (North-East Italy) for key features of ambient heating systems. We evaluate the coherence of the underlying preference structure using as criteria psychological constructs from the Theory of Diffusion of Innovation by Rogers. Our results broadly support this theory by providing evidence of segmentation of the population consistent with the individuals' propensity to adopt innovations. We found that preferences for heating systems and respondents' willingness to pay for their key features vary across segments. These results enabled us to generate maps that show how willingness to pay estimates vary across the region and can guide local policy design aimed at stimulating adoption of sustainable solutions.

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“…The idea of integrating social-psychological constructs into choice models to explain preference heterogeneity is not new (e.g. Onozaka et al, 2011;Grebitus et al, 2013;Greiner, 2015), but the integrated choice and latent variable model framework in these aforementioned studies was not considered. The more formal integration of a latent variable model with a choice model gives an improvement over conventional choice models that simply integrate social-psychological constructs as covariates, in terms of reducing measurement error and potential endogeneity bias (e.g.…”

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“…Another approach is to first perform a factor analysis on the indicators, and then include the resulting construct(s) in the utility function (e.g. Greiner, 2015). In the aforementioned study no farm and farm characteristics were used to explain preference heterogeneity.…”

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Farmers’ willingness to invest in livestock disease control: the case of voluntary vaccination against bluetongue

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Motivations and attitudes influence farmers' willingness to participate in biodiversity conservation contracts

Cited by 129 publications

References 84 publications

How Local Intermediaries Improve the Effectiveness of Public Payment for Ecosystem Services Programs: The Role of Networks and Agri-Environmental Assistance

How Local Intermediaries Improve the Effectiveness of Public Payment for Ecosystem Services Programs: The Role of Networks and Agri-Environmental Assistance

Adoption of renewable heating systems: An empirical test of the diffusion of innovation theory

Farmers’ willingness to invest in livestock disease control: the case of voluntary vaccination against bluetongue

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