Participation in biodiversity schemes and environmental performance: overall farm-level impact and spillover effects on non-enrolled land

Franziska Zimmert, Pierrick Jan and Petyo Bonev

European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2024, vol. 51, issue 3, 690-724

Abstract: We evaluate how the share of farmland enrolled in agri-environmental schemes affects the biodiversity friendliness of management practices both on the overall farmland as well as on the enrolled and non-enrolled plots separately. To this end, we prepare a unique dataset for Switzerland that links farm-level accountancy data to plot-level data on management practices and their impact on organismal biodiversity. Our estimates allow us to calculate bounds for potential spillovers on non-enrolled farmland. We find that these are positive but small in magnitude. The effect on the overall farmland is also positive but again rather small.

Keywords: agri-environmental schemes; biodiversity; direct payments; spillover effect; Switzerland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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