Dutch farmers' views on public and private incentives for soil health improvements

Insa Thiermann, Francesco Stagni and Liesbeth Dries

Agricultural Systems, 2025, vol. 230, issue C

Abstract: Attention to soil health has increased in recent years. Healthier soils can result from extensifying farming practices which increase soil organic matter, and research shows that farmers often need to be financially incentivied to implement such practices. Financial incentives can be provided through agri-environmental contracts between farmers and public entities, through payments from food value chain actors for more sustainable production, or more recently, also through payments from carbon credit markets.

Keywords: Q methodology; Carbon farming; Soil health; Farmer preferences; Climate change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2025.104480

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