Modelling farmers' participation in agri-environmental schemes in Greece

Elias Giannakis

International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, 2014, vol. 10, issue 3, 227-238

Abstract: Agri-Environmental Schemes (AES) are the main policy instrument currently available in the European Union to encourage environmental improvements in agriculture, but their adoption in Greece and generally in Southern Europe is relatively low. Policy makers have still limited experience on how farmers approach environmental schemes. The aim of this paper is to examine the factors that determine farmers' participation in AES using a probit model. The results highlight that younger and well-educated farmers are more likely to enrol in AES; while on the other hand, pluriactive farmers and farmers having identified a successor are less likely to participate. The propensity of farmers' participation decreases also with the size of the farm. Finally, social capital influences significantly farmers' attitudes and therefore it is necessity to explore further the information and communication tools of AES in order to increase adoption rates.

Keywords: agri-environmental schemes; farmer participation; probit model; farmer characteristics; farm characteristics; farm pluriactivity; social capital; Greece; farming; agriculture; environmental improvement; modelling; ICT. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=64005 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijarge:v:10:y:2014:i:3:p:227-238

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sarah Parker ().