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Title:Farmers' preferences for result-based schemes for grassland conservation in Slovenia
Authors:ID Šumrada, Tanja (Author)
ID Japelj, Anže (Author)
ID Verbič, Miroslav (Author)
ID Erjavec, Emil (Author)
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Language:English
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:Logo SciVie - Slovenian Forestry Institute
Abstract:Government-funded payments for ecosystem services (PES) have increasingly been used to facilitate transactions between users of environmental services and their providers. In order to improve the link between payments and the service provided, some countries in the EU have promoted result-based schemes (RBS), which remunerate farmers for ecological results, as part of their agricultural policy. Since PES programs are voluntary, it is important to understand farmers’ responses before more large-scale implementations of RBS are initiated. Using a choice experiment and a mixed logit model, we elicited the preferences of farmers in two Natura 2000 sites in Slovenia for different design elements of a hypothetical scheme for dry grassland conservation. We found that the majority of farmers preferred the result-based approach over the management-based scheme both in terms of payment conditions and monitoring; one group of farmers preferred the RBS very strongly (average WTA of more than 500 EUR/ha/yr) and another group less strongly (average WTA about 200 EUR/ha/yr). Farmers also showed a higher preference for on-farm advise and training in small groups than for lectures, which would be offered to a larger audience. A collective bonus, which would incentivise coordination and could potentially increase participation rates in the scheme, significantly influenced the farmers’ willingness to adopt the scheme. However, the estimated average WTA was comparable or lower than the 40 EUR/ha annual bonus payment. Older farmers and those who managed small and semi-subsistent farms were significantly more likely to be highly resistant to scheme adoption no matter its design.
Keywords:agrarna politika, kmetijstvo, subvencije, ekosistemske storitve, plačilo za ekosistemske storitve, agricultural policy, agriculture, subsidies, payments for ecosystem services, abiodiversity conservation
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Year of publishing:2022
Number of pages:12 str.
Numbering:Vol. 66, art. 126143
PID:20.500.12556/DiRROS-14734 New window
UDC:630*9
ISSN on article:1617-1381
DOI:10.1016/j.jnc.2022.126143 New window
COBISS.SI-ID:96358403 New window
Note:Soavtorji: Anže Japelj, Miroslav Verbič, Emil Erjavec;
Publication date in DiRROS:04.02.2022
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Record is a part of a journal

Title:Journal for nature conservation
Shortened title:J. Nat. Conserv.
Publisher:Elsevier
ISSN:1617-1381
COBISS.SI-ID:336635 New window

Document is financed by a project

Funder:ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
Project number:P4-0022
Name:Ekonomika agroživilstva in naravnih virov

Funder:ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
Project number:V4-1814
Name:Analitične podpore za večjo učinkovitost in ciljnost kmetijske politike do okolja in narave v Sloveniji

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