A choice experiment approach to evaluate maize farmers’ decision-making processes in Lao PDR

Damien Jourdain (), Juliette Lairez, Bruno Striffler and Thomas Lundhede
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Damien Jourdain: UMR G-EAU - Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - AgroParisTech - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro Montpellier - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement, Cirad-DG - Cirad Direction Générale - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Juliette Lairez: UPR AIDA - Agroécologie et intensification durables des cultures annuelles - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, Cirad-PERSYST - Département Performances des systèmes de production et de transformation tropicaux - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Bruno Striffler: AGROSOLUTIONS FRA - Partenaires IRSTEA - IRSTEA - Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture
Thomas Lundhede: UCPH - University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet, University of Pretoria [South Africa]

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Abstract: Sustainable intensification seeks to increase outputs from existing farmland in ways that have a lower environmental impact. An extensive literature has examined the determinants of farmers' adoption of the different agro-ecological cropping systems needed to achieve these goals. However, the farmers' preferences for the attributes of these systems and the decision processes for choosing between available systems is still poorly understood. To fill this gap, this paper proposes a methodology that relies on a discrete choice experiment to analyse farmers' preferences for cropping systems and estimate the heterogeneity of decision processes among farmers. We modelled three major types of decision processes potentially used by farmers to evaluate the systems that are not consistent with the standard utility maximization framework. These findings offer insights into the behavioural patterns of respondents and should help crop system promoters and developers to better understand how their proposed systems are likely to be evaluated by different types of farmers.

Keywords: Random utility; Latent class; Behavioural mixing; Taste heterogeneity; Elimination by aspects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-09
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Published in Journal of Choice Modelling, 2022, 44, pp.100366. ⟨10.1016/j.jocm.2022.100366⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jocm.2022.100366

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