Productive Capacity of Biodiversity: Crop Diversity and Permanent Grasslands in Northwestern France

Capacité productive de la biodiversité: Diversité des cultures et prairies permanentes dans le nord-ouest de la France

Francois Bareille and Pierre Dupraz

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Abstract: Previous studies on the productive capacity of biodiversity emphasized that greater crop diversity increases crop yields. We examined the influence of two components of agricul-tural biodiversity—farm-level crop diversity and permanent grasslands—on the production of cereals and milk. We focused on productive interactions between these two biodiver-sity components, and between them and conventional inputs. Using a variety of estimators (seemingly unrelated regressions and general method of moments, with or without restric-tions) and functional forms, we estimated systems of production functions using a sample of 3960 mixed crop-livestock farms from 2002 to 2013 in France. The estimates highlight that increasing permanent grassland proportion increased cereal yields under certain con-ditions and confirm that increasing crop diversity increases cereal and milk yields. Crop diversity and permanent grasslands can substitute each other and be a substitute for fertiliz-ers and pesticides.

Keywords: Ecosystem services; Biodiversity; Agriculture; Pesticides; Productivity; Biodiversité; Service ecosystémique; Pesticide; Productivité (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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Published in Environmental and Resource Economics, 2020, 77 (2), pp.365-399. ⟨10.1007/s10640-020-00499-w⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/s10640-020-00499-w

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