Preferences for biodiversity offset contracts on arable land: a choice experiment study with farmers

Anne-Charlotte Vaissière (), Léa Tardieu (), Fabien Quétier and Sébastien Roussel ()
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Anne-Charlotte Vaissière: ESE - Ecologie Systématique et Evolution - UP11 - Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 - AgroParisTech - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Léa Tardieu: BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Fabien Quétier: Biotope [Mèze]

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Abstract: Biodiversity offsetting (BO) is aimed at achieving no net loss of biodiversity in the context of economic development. Through a choice experiment in Northern France, we show that farmers have a clear preference for not signing up BO contracts. The contracts they accept may only be suitable for offsetting temporary impacts on already degraded areas of natural habitat but not for permanent impacts on high-quality habitat. We find that the introduction of a conditional monetary bonus can improve the organisational and ecological efficiency of BO because it increases the enrolled acreage in a BO contract per farmer albeit at an increased cost for developers.

Keywords: Agricultural contract; Biodiversity offset; Choice experiment; Land management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2018, 45 (4), pp.553-582. ⟨10.1093/erae/jby006⟩

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DOI: 10.1093/erae/jby006

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