What Determines Forest Farmers’ Participation in Afforestation Programs? Empirical Evidence from a Population-Based Census Survey

Tzong-Haw Lee, Brian Lee, Yu-Long Chen, Lih-Chyun Sun and Hung-Hao Chang
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Tzong-Haw Lee: College of Economics, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
Brian Lee: Department of Agricultural Economics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
Yu-Long Chen: Department of Business Administration, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung 413310, Taiwan
Lih-Chyun Sun: Department of Urban Industrial Management and Marketing, University of Taipei, Taipei 11153, Taiwan

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 11, 1-10

Abstract: Afforestation programs have become increasingly significant as policymakers attempt to protect the environment and reduce climate change. Although many studies have examined the participation decisions of forest farm households in afforestation programs, these studies fail to consider different types of these policies. This paper fills this knowledge gap by studying the determinants of forest farms participating in two afforestation programs on plain and sloped land in Taiwan. We construct a population-based sample of forest farms drawn from agricultural census surveys in Taiwan and estimate the multinomial logit model. We find that failing to distinguish between afforestation programs may result in misleading findings. Moreover, socio-demographic and farm production characteristics also affect participation decisions. Additional results from a simple simulation exercise show that forest farms are more likely to enroll in afforestation programs on sloped land, possibly due to lower opportunity costs

Keywords: afforestation program; multinomial logit model; policy simulation; Taiwan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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