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	Provedor de dados AgEcon (15) Autor Viaggi, Davide (4) Barreiro-Hurlé, Jesús (3) Bartolini, Fabio (3) Espinosa-Goded, Maria (3) Dupraz, Pierre (2) Gallerani, Vittorio (2) Atance Muniz, Ignacio (1) Bardaji, Isabel (1) Blandford, David (1) Christensen, Jan (1) Christensen, Tove (1) Defrancesco, Edi (1) Denver, Sigrid (1) Finn, J. (1) Gatto, Paola (1) Giudicissi, Eufrasia (1) Hasler, Berit (1) Kurz, Isabelle (1) Morkbak, Morten Raun (1) Nagel, Uwe Jens (1) Mais... Palavra-chave Agri-environmental schemes (15) Environmental Economics and Policy (12) Agricultural and Food Policy (6) Farm Management (3) Q18 (3) D82 (2) Multifunctional agriculture (2) Participation (2) Q1 (2) Q2 (2) Uncertainty (2) Acceptance (1) Adoption (1) Adoption models (1) Agri-environmental networks (1) Attitudes (1) Bottom-up approach (1) CAP (1) CAP reform (1) Cereal steppes (1) Mais... Tipo do documento Conference Paper or Presentation (14) Working or Discussion Paper (1) Ano 2011 (1) 2010 (2) 2009 (1) 2008 (5) 2006 (1) 2005 (3) 2002 (2) Mais... País United States (15) Idioma Inglês (14) Alemão (1)		Ordenar por:  Relevância Autor Título Ano Registros recuperados: 15 Primeira ... 1 ... Última Kommunikationsbeziehungen der Amter fur Landwirtschaft und Flurneuordnung im Bereich der Agrarumweltprogramme - Fallstudie Sachsen-Anhalt AgEcon Prager, Katrin; Nagel, Uwe Jens. The administration and implementation of agri-environmental schemes is one of the tasks of Agricultural Agencies (Amter fur Landwirtschaft und Flurneuordnung). These agencies thus play a major role for all farmers interested or participating in funding schemes. Assuming that feeding information about preferences and needs of programme entrants into the agri-environmental decision-making process is essential for assuring acceptance and effectiveness of the prescribed measures, agricultural agencies are predestined to collect and supply relevant information. Using the state of Sachsen-Anhalt as an example, the communication network between agencies, farmers, the Ministry, farmers' associations and agricultural extension workers is explored. Hierarchical... Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper Palavras-chave: Communication process; Agri-environmental schemes; Agri-environmental networks; Participation; Acceptance; Bottom-up approach; Inter-organisational communication; Environmental Economics and Policy. Ano: 2005 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18816 MODELING FARMERS PREFENCES FOR AGRIENVIRONMENTAL SCHEME DESIGN: A SPANISH CASE STUDY AgEcon Espinosa-Goded, Maria; Barreiro-Hurlé, Jesús; Ruto, Eric. Agri-environmental schemes (AES) have had a limited effect on European agriculture due to farmer’s reluctance to participate in them. Information on the role that AES design can have on encouraging farmers to participate can be an important input into the design of such policies. This paper investigates farmers’ preferences for different design options related to a specific AES in Spain using a mixed logit error component choice experiment approach allowing for preference heterogeneity and correlation amongst the non status quo alternatives. In particular, findings show farmers preference for greater flexibility in scheme implementation, presence of a fixed-rate payment per contract and additional advisory services. However, heterogeneity in the value of... Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Choice experiment; Agri-environmental schemes; Farmers; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Production Economics. Ano: 2009 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50328 Theory of Contracts and Agri-Environment Policies: A Budget Restriction Alters Standard Results of Mechanisms Design Theory AgEcon Christensen, Jan. Agri-environmental schemes are offered by a regulator to farmers. The farmer is to produce certain environmental goods and gets a pecuniary compensation for doing so. The problem of designing optimal schemes is dealt with using mechanisms design theory. This paper considers the situation where the regulator faces a budget constraint on total payments to farmers. It is shown, that 2 results of standard mechanisms design theory are affected when a budget restriction on total payments is present. 1) The "no distortion at the top rule" does not always hold. 2) It is not always optimal to offer heterogeneous farmers heterogeneous argi-environmental schemes. Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Agri-environmental schemes; Mechanisms design; Information Economics; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q28; D82. Ano: 2002 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24882 Transaction costs in agri-environmental schemes: the principal-agent-point of view AgEcon Weber, Anja Michaela; Nuppenau, Ernst-August. Agri-environmental schemes provide payments for farmers in return for environmental services. Their implementation induces transaction costs for administration and farmers. Although transaction costs became subject of research in recent years, little attention has been paid to activities which create them. This paper uses insights from Principal-Agent-Theory to show, how information gaps between contracting partners result in tradeoffs inducing activities conducted at implementation level. A Grassland Extensification Scheme, provided in Hesse, Germany, serves as a case-study. The paper shows that attempts and incentives to overcome informational gaps are different for administration and farmer. Further, attempts to reduce transaction costs of own... Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Agri-environmental schemes; Transaction costs; Principal-agent-theory; Hesse; Germany; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Q18; Q23. Ano: 2010 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/94919 Factors Affecting Farmers' Participation in Agri-Environmental Measures: Evidence from a Case Study AgEcon Defrancesco, Edi; Gatto, Paola; Runge, C. Ford; Trestini, Samuele. Starting from the McSharry reform in 1992, environmental conservation and minimization of negative agricultural impacts through adoption of agri-environmental farming practices have gained momentum within the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Agenda 2000 and the recent issuing of Regulation 1698/2005 – with its strong accent on CAP’s second pillar – have further emphasized the need to reduce environmental risks within the context of sustainable and integrated rural development. Nowadays, agrienvironmental measures are the only compulsory measure for Member States in the Rural Development Programs. The result of this shift in CAP objectives is the increased agri-environmental spending in the total EU agricultural budget and the parallel growth in... Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Agri-environmental schemes; Farmers’ participation; Attitudes; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management. Ano: 2006 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6688 Agri-Environmental Policy and Moral Hazard under Output Price and Production Uncertainty AgEcon Yano, Yuki; Blandford, David. Several theoretical and empirical models have been developed to examine how risk aversion affects compliance with agri-environmental schemes under asymmetric information and uncertainty. However, none has examined the case where the level of compliance is a continuous variable and producers face simultaneous monitoring, output price and production uncertainty. Treating conservation effort as a continuous variable, we show that risk aversion can mitigate the moral hazard problem in most cases. However, if conservation effort has a risk-increasing impact on production the effect of risk aversion on compliance is ambiguous. Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Agri-environmental schemes; Uncertainty; Moral hazard; Environmental Economics and Policy. Ano: 2008 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44323 Using Information from Mid Term Evaluations of RDP for the Multicriteria Analysis of Agri-environmental Schemes AgEcon Bartolini, Fabio; Finn, J.; Kurz, Isabelle; Samoggia, Antonella; Viaggi, Davide. This paper discusses how environmental indicators and multicriteria methodologies can support the ex post evaluation of Agri-Environmental Schemes. The paper is based on information from the Mid term evaluation of the Rural Development Programmes and develops around an example that compares Ireland and Emilia-Romagna. The results show that the application of Agri-Environmental Schemes only partially achieves to local objectives, and the way in which the Agri-Environmental Schemes are implemented can be reasonably improved. However, the tentative analysis emphasizes the scarcity of quantitative data that can be related to effectiveness, the lack of predetermined quantitatively defined target levels of objectives and the difficulty to assess the relative... Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Agri-environmental schemes; Mid term evaluation; Multifunctional agriculture; Indicators; Multicriteria analysis; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q1; Q18; Q2. Ano: 2005 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24738 How to increase the effectiveness of agri-environmental subsidy schemes through knowledge of farmer perceptions-a choice experiment on pesticide free buffer zones AgEcon Christensen, Tove; Pedersen, Anders Branth; Nielsen, Helle Orstead; Morkbak, Morten Raun; Hasler, Berit; Denver, Sigrid. Danish farmers have been far less interested in agri-environmental subsidy schemes than anticipated. We use choice experiments to estimate 486 Danish farmers’ preferences for a number of policy relevant scheme-characteristics. Subsidy schemes for pesticide free buffer zones along hedgerows are used as a case and analysed using a random parameter logit framework. By quantifying farmers’ preferences in monetary values, we are able to assess the relative importance of individual scheme-characteristics. Farmer’s assessments of the administrative burden are captured by estimating how they value free-of-charge assistance for the application procedure. To our knowledge, this measure of administrative burden has not been tested before. Our results indicate that... Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Farmer preferences; Participation; Agri-environmental schemes; Choice experiments; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Crop Production/Industries; Demand and Price Analysis; Farm Management. Ano: 2010 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/109316 Contract design in agri-environmental schemes with fixed private transaction costs and countervailing incentives AgEcon Viaggi, Davide. The aim of this paper is to test the relevance of considering private fixed transaction costs for contract design of Agri-Environmental Schemes, when transaction costs are negatively correlated to marginal compliance costs. In order to do so, a principal-agent model of contract design under adverse selection, including fixed private transaction costs, is developed. The model is applied to the design of payments in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy. The results show that fixed transaction costs in the range of those actually faced by farmers may significantly affect the optimal amount of environmental good to be produced by each farm type. In some cases, fixed transaction costs can even reverse the standard insight that more of a public good should be... Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Agri-environmental schemes; Principal-agent; Countervailing incentives; Environmental Economics and Policy. Ano: 2008 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44322 Cross Compliance: what about compliance? AgEcon Stefani, Gianluca; Giudicissi, Eufrasia. We reviewed some moral hazard (MH) models applied to agri-environmental policies and identified the main methodological aspects of the literature on this topics. Imperfect vs incomplete monitoring , static vs dynamic and single vs multiple agents models are the main lines along which the literature has been organised analysing each component of a MH model. Most papers point out the role of farmers' risk aversion in mitigating MH. Others highlight that the observed high rate of compliance is still somewhat paradoxical given current enforcement strategies with low fines and monitoring levels. Cross compliance confirm these findings and urges further studies on dynamic models and farmers' non profit maximising behaviour. Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Cross-compliance; Moral Hazard; Enforcement; Agri-environmental schemes; Agricultural and Food Policy; Q15; Q58; D82. Ano: 2011 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/99597 Contract Design and Targeting for the Production of Public Goods in Agriculture: The Impact of the 2003 Cap Reform AgEcon Bartolini, Fabio; Gallerani, Vittorio; Raggi, Meri; Viaggi, Davide. The objective of this paper is to compare different ways of designing agri-environmental contracts and to set targeting under adverse selection, comparing conditions before and after CAP reform 2003. The results suggest that the present contract structure may be relevantly improved through a more accurate design and a clearer target. The reform, through the decoupling mechanism, will contribute to reduce the opportunity cost of the adoption of agri-environmental measures. This may increase the optimal amount of public goods produced by agriculture and will encourage participation by farmers. However, in order to properly exploit the new conditions brought by the 2003 reform, it is necessary to review the way agri-environmental payments are assigned and... Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Agri-environmental schemes; Contracts; Multifunctional agriculture; CAP reform; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q1; Q18; Q2. Ano: 2005 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24559 DOES INTENSITY OF CHANGE MATTER? FACTORS AFFECTING ADOPTION IN TWO AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEMES AgEcon Barreiro-Hurlé, Jesús; Espinosa-Goded, Maria; Dupraz, Pierre. Agri-environmental schemes are the main policy instrument currently available in the EU to promote environmentally friendly farming practices. Nevertheless, the adoption rate of these measures is still limited. This paper develops a theoretical framework to explain farmer sign-up decision and tests whether factors affecting this decision differ depending on the level of requirement of each measure. The model is tested with two different AES in Spain implying a low and a high farm management change. Technical factors are found to be most relevant when significant farm practice changes are at stake while the role of farmer characteristics is significant when minor changes are required. In both cases, social capital and farmer attitudes still explain part of... Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Agri-environmental schemes; Adoption models; Measure intensity; Spain; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management; Institutional and Behavioral Economics. Ano: 2008 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6458 EX-ANTE EVALUATION OF AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEMES: COMBINING ELEMENTS OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC DECISION MAKING AgEcon Bartolini, Fabio; Gallerani, Vittorio; Viaggi, Davide. The objective of this paper is to set a complete ex-ante evaluation to support Decision Makers in designing more efficient and effective agri-environmental contracts, through an integrated modelling of elements of private and public decision making. Ex-ante comparison of policy design options in terms of overall effectiveness requires both simulations of farmers' behaviour and evaluation of the farms simulations outcomes. An intermediate step is the aggregation of single farms impacts at territorial level, in order to identify the aggregate impact of each alternative. Alternatives are several contract design, based on different levels of payments. Farm level analysis is based on a real options approach including in the simulations the timing of choice and... Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Agri-environmental schemes; Real Options; Investments; Decoupled payments; Uncertainty; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Risk and Uncertainty. Ano: 2008 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6639 Intervention in Agricultural Systems that Provide Positive Environmental Externalities: an Evaluation of Alternative Instruments AgEcon Atance Muniz, Ignacio; Bardaji, Isabel; Tio, Carlos. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) intervenes in most agricultural systems that provide positive environmental externalities using both direct payments and agrienvironmental schemes. In this context, the objective of this paper is to compare the efficiency of the current intervention system versus intervening using agri-environmental payments as a sole instrument. The cereal steppes agroecosystem of Tierra de Campos (Valladolid, Spain) has been selected to develop this comparison. A farm survey and a Positive Mathematical Programming Model have been combined to provide results of both alternative instruments. The farm survey was used to ask the farmers their payments demands to participate in the alternative instrument, supplying also qualitative... Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: CAP; Agri-environmental schemes; Policy instruments evaluation; Farm surveys; Positive Mathematical Programming; Cereal steppes; Environmental Economics and Policy. Ano: 2002 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24810 Re-considering Agri-Environmental Schemes premiums: the impact of fixed costs in sign-up decisions AgEcon Barreiro-Hurlé, Jesús; Espinosa-Goded, Maria; Dupraz, Pierre. Current EU legislation states that premiums for agri-environmental schemes must be calculated based on forgone profit and additional costs. This approach has been implemented for the last decades without much success in farmer uptake, a situation that might even worsen as the 20% additional payment as incentive for participation has been excluded in the new EU Rural Development Framework 2007-2013. This paper tries to explain why supply side estimated premiums might not suffice to assure farm profitability investigating the role that fixed costs have on adoption. A farm profit maximizing model is proposed where fixed and transaction costs are split from variations in marginal profit. This model is then developed to identify the potential barriers to... Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Agri-environmental schemes; Fixed costs; Adoption; Environmental Economics and Policy. Ano: 2008 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43606 Registros recuperados: 15 Primeira ... 1 ... Última

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