Do European PES help reduce herbicide use ? Evidence from a natural experiment in France

Laure Kuhfuss and Julie Subervie

Working Papers from LAMETA, Universtiy of Montpellier

Abstract: Payments for Environmental Services (PES) are a central component of the environmental policy of the European Union, but few of these programs have been carefully evaluated and doubts are often expressed about the effectiveness of voluntary programs. We use original data collected from winegrowers participating in PES targeting nonpoint source pollution from pesticides. We use exogenous variation in the timing of the implementation of the program as a natural experiment. We show that the quantity of herbicides used by participants in the program in 2012 was around 30 percent below what they would have used without the program, while the impact was significantly higher in 2011 - around 50 percent - presumably because of higher weed pressure. We moreover estimate a windfall effect associated with the least stringent measure.

Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2015-02, Revised 2015-11
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