Cross-Compliance for Erosion Control: Anticipating Efficiency and Distributive Impacts

David E. Ervin, William D. Heffernan and Gary P. Green

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1984, vol. 66, issue 3, 273-278

Abstract: Despite increasing attention, the effects of using differential agricultural program benefits to achieve soil conservation are largely unexplored. Viewed in a conventional environmental economics framework, the popularly perceived cross-compliance program may fall short on efficiency grounds. Analysis suggests that the greatest incentive to practice conservation may occur on land with little or no net social benefits forthcoming from erosion control. A by-product of cross-compliance worth consideration is that those likely to benefit most from the program are the highest equity and largest farm operators.

Date: 1984
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