@article{Ridier:329944,
      recid = {329944},
      author = {Ridier, Aude  and Roussy, Caroline  and Chaib, Karim },
      title = {Adoption of crop diversification by specialized grain  farmers in south-western France: evidence from a  choice-modelling experiment},
      journal = {Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies},
      address = {2021-04-02},
      number = {2134-2023-033},
      month = {Apr},
      year = {2021},
      abstract = {Farming systems in developed countries have highly  specialized to reach economies of scale. In addition to  their low economic resilience, specialized agricultural  systems face more and more agronomic problems such as yield  stagnancy or pest and pathogen resistance. Crop  diversification is a lever to overcome these problems and  to reduce chemical inputs. But the adoption of  diversification crops remains low and heterogeneous, due to  both monetary and non-monetary determinants. Unobservable  determinants such as the perception of crop characteristics  might explain this heterogeneity. The paper proposes an  evaluation of farmers’ preferences for these  characteristics with a choice modelling conducted among 71  specialized grain farmers of south-western France. A random  parameter logit model interacting crop attributes with  farms’ individual characteristics show that, in addition to  monetary attributes, crop traits such as the level of  nitrogen restitution and the positive effect of the  diversification crop on pest management influence adoption.  It shows an even stronger impact of these agronomic  attributes when soil and agronomic conditions are  constraining. Moreover, demand for crop diversification is  influenced by the performance of the farm’s main crop and  by the type of marketing contract adopted, which suggests  cross effects with risk management strategies.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/329944},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.329944},
}