Government subsidy programs incentivize livestock managers to adopt best management practices (BMPs), such as rotational grazing, water tank systems, stream crossings, and pasture improvement to ...prevent or reduce soil erosion. This paper addresses the challenge of integrating socio-economic data on BMP adoption behavior with hydrologic/biophysical models to analyze the association between incentives, BMP adoption, and changes in soil erosion rates. Using primary survey data of livestock producers in an East Tennessee watershed, this research estimates willingness to adopt BMPs among livestock producers. The propensity to adopt one or multiple management technologies, given an incentive, is estimated with a multivariate probit regression. The likelihood producers adopt one or a combination of practices is then integrated into the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) hydrologic model to generate soil loss abatement curves for the watershed. Abatement curves specific to each hydrologic response unit (HRU) comprising the watershed are estimated and then aggregated to determine an aggregate abatement curve for the watershed. Based on the abatement curves, HRU are ranked according to cost efficiency.
Voluntary programs to reduce nonpoint source pollution are an important component of efforts to reduce water quality degradation in the U.S. Understanding the factors influencing the willingness of ...nonpoint sources such as farms to participate in these programs is critical to effectively designing and implementing these programs. This study examines factors influencing willingness to adopt four different best management practices—rotational grazing, pasture improvement, stream water crossing, and water tank systems—by beef cattle operations in an East Tennessee watershed. Factors examined include farm and farmer characteristics, farmer attitudes, and a hypothetical incentive program to encourage adoption of these practices. Younger, more educated producers with higher income levels and larger households were more willing to adopt the BMPs. Producers were more willing to adopt pasture improvement and least willing to adopt stream crossings. Producers also seemed willing to adopt a bundle comprised of pasture improvement, rotational grazing and water tanks.
This paper uses a contingent valuation method to investigate the economic conditions for the development of biodiversity-friendly paddy rice agriculture in terms of farmer willingness to adopt such ...agriculture and consumer willingness to purchase such products. We focus on the rice grown in such a manner to preserve the habitats of the indigenous fish species of Lake Biwa. We gathered the data used in our analysis from questionnaire surveys of six rural communities in Shiga Prefecture from 2010 to 2011 and obtained the following results: (i) a price premium for rice grown through biodiversity-friendly agriculture encourages farmers to adopt such practices; (ii) consumers who are familiar with biodiversity-friendly paddy rice agriculture are likely to purchase such rice. Hence, the information dissemination of such agriculture to consumers will stimulate demand; and (iii) consumers who frequently participate in community events are likely to purchase rice grown through biodiversity-friendly paddy rice agriculture. Therefore, in this context, the accumulation of social capital in any rural community that is engaged in biodiversity-friendly paddy rice agriculture contributes to the development of such agriculture.
Beef cattle production is responsible for approximately 2.2% of total US GHG production. In some agroecosystems, afforestation has the potential to sequester more carbon than other pasture and ...rangeland management practices. This research examines the factors, including an incentive, influencing afforestation on beef cattle farms east of the 100th meridian.
The adaptation of push-pull technology to the drier ecological zones is of critical importance for its sustainability in view of the effects of global climate change. While intensified dissemination ...of the climate-smart technology would ensure its maximum adoption, knowledge of its potential adoption is necessary before dissemination resources are commitment. Potential adoption of a technology is however based on a wide range of farm, farmer, institutional and socioeconomic characteristics. This study was interested on these determinants of potential adoption of the climate-smart push-pull ex ante. The study adopted the multinomial logit technique to evaluate potential adoption determinants, and the findings were consistent with expectations based on theoretical hypothesis with gender, striga rating, push-pull awareness, input market access and country dummy variables being the significant predictors of the potential adoption. These findings are critical if effective targeting of the dissemination messages is to be accomplished.
This paper analyzed the factors that affect farmers’ willingness to adopt salt-tolerant forage
for livestock, using a Tobit model. The data used for the empirical analysis was obtained from
a survey ...of 97 farmers in southeastern Tunisia. The results of this study show that variables
related to age, education level, the salinity level of water and membership in a farmers’
association do not significantly influence the degree to which salt-tolerant forage production
is adopted. It did, however, find a positive relationship between off-farm income availability
and adoption. In addition, the flock size variable, expressed in Standard Livestock Units, has a
significant and positive relationship with adoption. This indicates farmers’ need to cover their
forage deficit. Agricultural extension services should ensure that the requisite forage species
are made available, and work with farmers to encourage them to adopt salt-tolerant forage
species and pass on their knowledge to other farmers.
This paper analyzed the factors that affect farmers’ willingness to adopt salt-tolerant foragefor livestock, using a Tobit model. The data used for the empirical analysis was obtained froma survey of ...97 farmers in southeastern Tunisia. The results of this study show that variablesrelated to age, education level, the salinity level of water and membership in a farmers’association do not significantly influence the degree to which salt-tolerant forage productionis adopted. It did, however, find a positive relationship between off-farm income availabilityand adoption. In addition, the flock size variable, expressed in Standard Livestock Units, has asignificant and positive relationship with adoption. This indicates farmers’ need to cover theirforage deficit. Agricultural extension services should ensure that the requisite forage speciesare made available, and work with farmers to encourage them to adopt salt-tolerant foragespecies and pass on their knowledge to other farmers.
This paper analyzed the factors that affect farmers’ willingness to adopt salt-tolerant forage for livestock, using a Tobit model. The data used for the empirical analysis was obtained from a ...survey of 97 farmers in southeastern Tunisia. The results of this study show that variables related to age, education level, the salinity level of water and membership in a farmers’ association do not significantly influence the degree to which salt-tolerant forage production is adopted. It did, however, find a positive relationship between off-farm income availability and adoption. In addition, the flock size variable, expressed in Standard Livestock Units, has a significant and positive relationship with adoption. This indicates farmers’ need to cover their forage deficit. Agricultural extension services should ensure that the requisite forage species are made available, and work with farmers to encourage them to adopt salt-tolerant forage species and pass on their knowledge to other farmers.
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