Role of economics in developing fertilizer best management practices

Asci, Serhat; Borisova, Tatiana; VanSickle, John J.

doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2015.01.021

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“…Rahelizatovo and Gillespie (2004) and Hadrich and Van Winkle (2013) contend that problem awareness impacts on BMP adoption. Asci et al (2015) argue that the incidence of BMPs on the mean and variance of profit and farmers' attitude toward risk condition adoption. Ghazalian et al (2009) find that larger farms are more likely to adopt BMPs because they can more easily afford implementation costs 6 and are more often the object of criticism regarding the adverse effects of agricultural production.…”

Section: The Growing Influence Of Rural Residents and Bmpsmentioning

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Risk aversion and willingness to pay for water quality: The case of non-farm rural residents

Larue¹,

West²,

Singbo

et al. 2017

Journal of Environmental Management

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Stated choice experiments are used to investigate the economic valuation of rural residents living in the province of Quebec for water quality improvements. In Quebec, rural residents played an important role in the setting of stricter environmental regulations. Unlike most stated choice experiments about the valuation of improvements in water quality, this study explicitly accounts for risk in the design and analysis of choice experiments. Risk in phosphorus and coliform reductions is introduced through a three-point uniform distribution in the choice sets. The results show greater support for constant absolute risk aversion preferences than for constant relative risk aversion. Rural residents value coliform and phosphorus reductions and the more educated ones are particularly willing to see the government tax farmers and taxpayers to secure such reductions. As the science improves and risk in water quality outcomes decrease and as the political weight of non-farm rural residents increase, it should be easier for governments to replace voluntary cost-share programs by polluter-payer programs.

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Section: The Growing Influence Of Rural Residents and Bmpsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Risk aversion and willingness to pay for water quality: The case of non-farm rural residents

Larue¹,

West²,

Singbo

et al. 2017

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…Fertilizer microdosing can be a better option that can be relied upon by smallholder farmers in rural areas [9]. However, before the adoption of technology is cascaded, there was a need to undertake a comprehensive economic analysis, by taking into account the associated risks [19,36]. It was reported in sub-humid farming system that fertilizer microdosing (25,50 and 75% of recommended rates) can be applied to maize farms and result in positive net return distributions [16].…”

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“…While reviewing past economic studies related to fertilizer use, the researcher found inadequate information on welfare effects distributions of farm input use [15,19]. In view of this, in the present chapter, the researcher build on the earlier studies to assess the welfare effects of fertilizer microdosing based on yield and prices.…”

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“…This study focuses on the way market functioning can affect the incentives of fertilizer supply chain actors using the available information gathered from previous studies. An investigation of how the input market should be improved is pertinent in understanding the underlying causes of low modern input use among producers and recommending best practice and policy for implementation [19,23,24].…”

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Fostering Fertilizer Use and Welfare Distribution in Tanzania: Implications for Policy and Practice

Mwinuka¹

2018

Soil Productivity Enhancement

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This chapter attempts to assess the way the welfare effect is distributed among various players of the fertilizer supply chain and how fertilizer use can be promoted using micro fertilization technology. As policy debates over fertilizer use promotion have not yet come full circle, this chapter derives important implications for policy and practice. In particular, illustrations and economic-surplus effects framework were used to indicate expected impacts of fertilizer microdosing on crop yields and welfare. Lowdimension diagrammatic analysis using supply and demand curves was used together with detailed assessment of actors' interactions in the fertilizer supply chain. In terms of welfare, crop producers, consumers and other market agents gain more if fertilizer microdosing is adopted by farmers. However, the magnitude of welfare effects varies as the slope of demand and supply curves change due to marginal fertilizer costs, crop prices and yield responses. Other influencing factors are soil moisture, the microdose rate, cropping system and general farm management practices. Thus, fertilizer microdosing can easily foster fertilizer use if the country elites implement a rational consistent policy, hence improving the welfare of players if adoption of the technology is reinforced with an efficient fertilizer supply chain.

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“…Efficiency index refers that the attribute values show a positive correlation with coordination degree of economy and environment, the greater its value, the better. While the cost-based indicators, by contrast, refers to the negative correlation between its attribute values and coordination degree of economy and environment [2][3].…”

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Study on the Coupling Coordination Degree between Metropolitan Economic System and Water Environmental System - Taking Beijing as an Example

Chen

2017

MATEC Web Conf.

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Abstract. The generation of metropolis is the inevitable outcome of the development of urbanization to a certain stage. The economy and society of metropolis are in the rapid development, but this process brings great pressure to the ecological environment, especially the water resources environment at the same time. In this paper, the relationship between metropolitan economic system and water environmental system is deeply studied, and the concept of "coupling" is introduced. Based on the framework of "pressure-state-response" (PSR), 12 detailed indexes, such as total population and water consumption per ten thousand Yuan GDP, were selected to construct four subsystems. The coordination degree measurement model has been used to calculate the degree of coupling between the economic system and water environmental system. On this basis, the following conclusions are drawn through the example of Beijing city: (1) In the process of metropolitan development, the economic system and the water environmental system are interrelated and there exist a complex coupling mechanism. (2) With the adjustment of economic structure and the progress of technology, the coupling index between the metropolitan economic system and the water environmental system has been increasing, and this process shows an upward trend

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Role of economics in developing fertilizer best management practices

Cited by 27 publications

References 31 publications

Risk aversion and willingness to pay for water quality: The case of non-farm rural residents

Risk aversion and willingness to pay for water quality: The case of non-farm rural residents

Fostering Fertilizer Use and Welfare Distribution in Tanzania: Implications for Policy and Practice

Study on the Coupling Coordination Degree between Metropolitan Economic System and Water Environmental System - Taking Beijing as an Example

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