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Provedor de dados: 	31	
País: 	United States	
Título: 	Incentives to Supply Enhanced Ecosystem Services from Cropland	
Autores: 	Jolejole,   Christina B.; Swinton,   Scott M.; Lupi,   Frank.	
Data: 	2009-04-30	
Ano: 	2009	
Palavras-chave: 	Willingness to participate; Willingness to accept; Stated preference; Supply response; Ecosystem services; Payment for environmental services; Agricultural policy; Agro-environmental policy; Environmental policy; Corn; Soybean; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q18; Q51; Q57.	
Resumo: 	This paper examines the willingness of farmers to participate in hypothetical programs that would pay them to adopt cropping practices that enhance provision of ecosystem services from agriculture. A survey of 3,000 Michigan corn and soybean farmers elicited willingness to adopt four sets of cropping practices that reflected increasing levels of environmental stewardship. Acreage enrollments in the programs were modeled using hurdle models. The acreage that farmers would be willing to enroll depends chiefly on farm size and the perception of environmental improvements from the practices.  For farms over 500 acres, the payment offered was also a significant inducement to acreage enrollment in all systems examined. This paper advances the literature on adoption of agro-environmental practices by developing a supply function for crop acreage managed for environmental stewardship.  Like prior studies of environmental technology adoption in agriculture, we find that environmental attitudes and affiliations, age, education and current farming practices are influential.  But we find that the low cost suppliers of environmental services are the largest farms.  Agricultural policies based on payment for environmental services that aim for cost-effective environmental impact will likely achieve most of their impact from larger farms.	
Tipo: 	Thesis or Dissertation	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	613180

http://purl.umn.edu/49356	
Relação: 	Agricultural and Applied Economics Association&gt;2009 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, 2009, Milwaukee, Wisconsin	
Formato: 	37