Production effects of wetland conservation: evidence from France

Les impacts productifs de la conservation des zones humides: application française

Moriah B. Bostian, Pierre Dupraz and Jean Minviel ()
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Moriah B. Bostian: Portland State University - Partenaires INRAE
Jean Minviel: SMART-LERECO - Structures et Marché Agricoles, Ressources et Territoires - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - AGROCAMPUS OUEST

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Abstract: This study takes a production function approach to examine the effects of farm wetland area for a set of producers in the Limousin region of France. By combining data from a recent survey of regional wetland areas with detailed farm-level production panel data, we find that maintaining wetland areas poses significant costs to farmers, in terms of foregone production value. These results help to explain the relatively low participation rate in agri-environmental schemes targeted to wetlands by farmers in this region. This represents a new application of the production function approach to estimate the cost of maintaining wetlands on working agricultural land, and is one of few studies to examine agricultural wetland costs outside of the US. This framework could be used to further inform payment incentives for agrienvironmental schemes more generally.

Keywords: wetlands; conservation payments; France; agri-environmental schemes; agricultural production; paiements pour services environnementaux (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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