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| Title: | Farm Diversification in Relation to Landscape Properties |
| Authors: | Pfeifer, C.
Jongeneel, Roelof A.
Sonneveld, M.
Stoorvogel, J. |
| Keywords: | Farmer diversification
landscape services
location |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Abstract: | Current European Common Agricultural
Policy (CAP) has been moving from production support
subsidies to direct decoupled income support. The
emergence in policy making of the concept of
multifunctional agriculture leads to the recognition that
a farmer produces more than food: he produces jointly
both commodity and non-commodity goods.
Environmental contracts were developed in order to
encourage the provision of non-commodity goods such
as landscape or biodiversity. Next to these contracts,
other activities as for example recreation can be
observed. They are the result of farm diversification.
The role of location in farmers’ decision making to
diversify is pointed out in literature but geographical
information is generally reduced to the location within a
political delimitation unit the empirical work.
Objective of this paper is two-fold. Firstly, it
addresses the role of location, in term of site specific
natural conditions as well as neighbouring emerging
dynamics in farmer’s decision making to diversify.
Attention is paid to number of activities as well as the
specific types of activities, notably green services, daily
recreation and other farm-linked services. Secondly, this
paper introduces income from agriculture explicitly
allowing testing short term price sensitivity.
It was found that attractive landscape is a driver for
diversification as these landscape offer more
opportunities. Furthermore, diversification is responsive
to price. Thirdly, role of density of past multifunctional
activities in the neighborhood influences farm
diversification: multifunctional activities create an
externality effects as new activities emerge next to
already existing ones. This dynamic may lead to the
emergence of ‘multifunctional hotspots’ in landscape. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/44439 |
| Institution/Association: | European Association of Agricultural Economists>2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium |
| Total Pages: | 5 |
| Collections: | 2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium
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