Heterogeneity of farmers' preferences towards agri-environmental schemes across different agricultural subsystems

A.J. Villanueva, Macario Rodríguez-Entrena, M. Arriaza and J.A. Gómez-Limón

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2017, vol. 60, issue 4, 684-707

Abstract: Specialised literature on the uptake of agri-environmental schemes (AES) has paid little attention to how this can be influenced by the different types of agricultural systems. This paper analyses the heterogeneity of farmers' preferences towards these schemes, distinguishing between different subsystems within the same agricultural system. We use the choice experiment method to analyse the case study of three olive grove subsystems in southern Spain, with the subsystems ranging from extensive to intensive. The results reveal inter- and intra-subsystem heterogeneity of farmers' preferences towards AES, both in general and specifically related to scheme attributes. A variety of factors appear to lie behind inter-subsystem heterogeneity, especially those associated with subsystem specificities (principally, the type of joint production). Likewise, numerous factors play a role in intra-subsystem heterogeneity, most of them related to farm/farmer socio-economic and physical characteristics. These findings will help in the design of more efficient AES.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2016.1168289

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