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32. Public preferences and willingness to pay for forest disease control in the UK
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sheremet, Oleg (author), Healey, John R. (author), Quine, Christopher P. (author), and Hanley, Nick (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-02-14
- Published:
- Europe: The Agricultural Economics Society
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08266
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Notes:
- Online Version of Record published before inclusion in an issue
33. Relationship between cognitive and affective processes, and willingness to pay for pesticide-free and GMO-free labeling
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Grebitus, Carola (author) and Van Loo, Ellen J. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-03-03
- Published:
- United States: Wiley Online
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12448
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Notes:
- 15pgs, Research has suggested to not solely include cognitive processes but also affective processes in economic choice modeling. Studying Medjool dates, we conducted a laboratory experiment combining choice experiments and eye-tracking to account for cognitive processes. In addition, participants indicated their level of worry related to production practices to account for affective processes. Our results show that consumers worry more about pesticide residues than genetic modification in foods. They also pay more attention to labels related to these production practices compared to other labels; and the production practice labels received the highest willingness to pay (WTP). Results from linear regressions show that both cognitive and affective processes are associated with WTP. Especially in the full model for WTP for pesticide-free labeling an increase of attention by 1 s increases WTP on average by $0.10 and an increase of the level of worry from one category to the next increases WTP on average by $0.17. Overall, results show that including both cognitive and affective processes as explanatory variables is important when determining factors associated with WTP.
34. Renters, landlords, and farmland stewardship
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Deaton, B. James (author), Lawley, Chad (author), and Nadella, Karthik (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-05-11
- Published:
- United States: International Association of Agricultural Economists
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12579
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 49, Iss. 1
- Notes:
- 11pgs, Are farmers better stewards of the land they own than the land they rent from others? We answer this question using a data set that identifies Ontario farmers’ conservation practices on their own land as well as the land they rent. Using a fixed-effects regression approach, we find that the role of tenure varies for different types of conservation practices. Farmers were found to be just as likely to adopt a machinery-related practice such as conservation tillage on their rented land as that land which they own. On the other hand, farmers were found to be less likely to adopt site-specific conservation practices such as planting cover crops on rented land. However, this effect diminishes as the expected length of the rental relationship increases when the landlord has a farming background.
35. Saying sayonara to the farm: hierarchical bayesian modeling of farm exits in japan
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ramsey, A. Ford (author), Ghosh, Sujit K. (author), and Sonoda, Tadashi (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-09-23
- Published:
- United States: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12383
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 70, Iss. 2
- Notes:
- 20 pgs, Off-farm employment opportunities are thought to have an effect on farm exit rates, though evidence on the sign of this effect has been mixed. Examining this issue in the context of Japanese agriculture, we find that farm exits are related to off-farm income as a share of household income, and more specifically to the nature of off-farm work. Two econometric models are developed: a hierarchical Bayesian linear model and a hierarchical Bayesian Poisson model. Both models perform well in predicting exit rates across the towns and prefectures of Japan.
36. Selling together: the benefits of cooperatives to women honey producers in ethiopia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Serra, Renata (author) and Davidson, Kelly A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-09-19
- Published:
- United States: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12370
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 72, Iss. 1
- Notes:
- 22 pages, Smallholder farmers in developing countries encounter multiple barriers in access to inputs and technology, which prevent them from reaping the benefits from market participation. Women farmers face additional constraints due to gender norms that further limit their engagement in productive activities. While collective action has been shown to improve access to markets and economic outcomes for farmers overall, the evidence on the effects of cooperative membership for women smallholders remains limited. We investigate empirically the economic benefits of collective action for women farmers in the honey sector in Ethiopia. Relying on a rich data set on women honey producers, both cooperative members and non-members, we evaluate the effects of belonging to a cooperative on three outcome variables through coarsened exact matching and regression analysis. Our results indicate that cooperative membership significantly increases the market price and the production quantity and, while the average effect on the share of product marketed is statistically insignificant, significant differences emerge for women with given characteristics. These results are shown to be robust to a number of tests that address biases from selection on observables and unobservables. An analysis of the heterogeneous effects of household membership in multiple groups finds that membership of self-help groups or farmer associations amplifies the positive outcomes from belonging to a formal cooperative. Finally, qualitative findings derived from the same communities indicate self-reported improvements in agency and self-esteem among women members, thus reinforcing the importance of the quantitative findings.
37. The boundary of smallholder producers’ cooperatives: A conceptual and empirical analysis
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tadesse, Getaw (author), Abate, Gashaw T. (author), and Ergano, Kebebe (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-11-08
- Published:
- United States: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12380
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol.70, Iss. 2
- Notes:
- 21 pages, In this study we explain the concepts, determinants and imperatives of boundary in smallholder producers’ cooperatives both conceptually and empirically. The conceptual framework indicates the importance of the type of goods (being a club good or not) and range of activities that a cooperative provides to its members in defining a competitive boundary. Using unique organisational and market level data from Ethiopia, we then test empirically whether the observed (weak) performance of producers’ cooperatives in Africa is explained by their organisational boundary – the type and range of goods or services they provide to members. The empirical results confirm that the competitiveness of producers’ cooperatives is significantly correlated with the type and number of services – i.e. cooperatives that provide club goods and a limited range of services are found to be more competitive. The results also suggest that a considerable number of cooperatives in Ethiopia engage in markets where they do not have competitive advantage. Overall, we demonstrate the importance of properly defining a viable boundary – proper selection of services (or markets) and limiting the range of services – for improving the competitiveness of membership-based producer cooperatives in Africa.
38. Time discounting and implications for Chinese farmer responses to an upward trend in precipitation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ding, Yihong (author), Balcombe, Kelvin (author), and Robinson, Elizabeth (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-03-11
- Published:
- United States: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12350
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 27, Iss. 3
- Notes:
- 15 pages, This paper studies Chinese grape growers’ time discounting and its implications for the adoption of technology that can reduce the negative effects of increasing precipitation. Using primary data collected in Xinjiang Province, we undertook a contingent valuation of rain covers that protect fruit from rain and estimated a discounted utility model using these data. Using a hierarchical Bayesian approach, we find that local grape growers discount the future very heavily, with a discount rate of 0.17 per year, which is almost four times higher than the Chinese market interest rate. Farmers also tend to underestimate the benefits of adopting covers, with their purchase decisions appearing to largely depend on their past actual losses rather than future anticipated losses. These findings have broader implications for policies promoting proactive adaptation in response to likely increased rainfall in the region. Targeting farmers who give lower weight to events far off in the future and understanding that many farmers may tend only to make adoption decisions that have strong short-term benefits could improve the efficacy of climate policies that target agricultural technologies.
39. Utilising farm-level panel data to estimate climate change impacts and adaptation potentials
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Quddoos, Abdul (author), Salhofer, Klaus (author), and Morawetz, Ulrich B. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-04-24
- Published:
- United States: Agricultural Economics Society, The
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12571
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- online
- Notes:
- 25pgs, We combine farm accounting data with high-resolution meteorological data, and climate scenarios to estimate climate change impacts and adaptation potentials at the farm level. To do so, we adapt the seminal model of Moore and Lobell (2014) who applied panel data econometrics to data aggregated from the farm to the regional (subnational) level. We discuss and empirically investigate the advantages and challenges of applying such models to farm-level data, including issues of endogeneity of explanatory variables, heterogeneity of farm responses to weather shocks, measurement errors in meteorological variables, and aggregation bias. Empirical investigations into these issues reveal that endogeneity due to measurement errors in temperature and precipitation variables, as well as heterogeneous responses of farms toward climate change may be problematic. Moreover, depending on how data are aggregated, results differ substantially compared to farm-level analysis. Based on data from Austria and two climate scenarios (Effective Measures and High Emission) for 2040, we estimate that the profits of farms will decline, on average, by 4.4% (Effective Measures) and 10% (High Emission). Adaptation options help to considerably ameliorate the adverse situation under both scenarios. Our results reinforce the need for mitigation and adaptation to climate change.
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