@article{Canessa:334508,
      recid = {334508},
      author = {Canessa, Carolin and Venus, Terese and Wiesmeier, Miriam  and Mennig, Philipp and Sauer, Johannes},
      title = {Farmers’ preferences over alternative AECS designs. Do the  ecological conditions influence the willingness to accept  result-based contracts?},
      address = {2023-03},
      pages = {39},
      year = {2023},
      abstract = {Agri-environmental-climate schemes provide payments for  ecosystem services by compensating farmers to implement  management actions or obtain ecological results. To compare  farmer preferences for action-based schemes, result-based  schemes, or a hybrid, we conduct a discrete choice  experiment in a case study from Germany. We elicited  farmers’ choices for alternative grassland biodiversity  payments through an in-person survey and measured farms’  ecological performance using a biodiversity index. Results  reveal that neither the payment mechanism nor its amount is  a primary driver of farmer decision-making. Instead, the  applicability of the prescribed management practice to the  farming system, and the achievability of the outcome, are  key for uptake. Intensive farmers are more likely to choose  hybrid-based solutions than extensive farms, which prefer a  result-based approach. Farms with higher biodiversity tend  to accept result-based schemes more frequently and are  willing to enrol a greater share of their land. Our  findings suggest a potential lack of additionality but also  that farmers’ awareness about their farms’ ecological  potential influences uptake of result-based schemes. To  encourage farmers participating and enroling more land in  these schemes, policymakers should tailor the  payment-mechanism to different farmers and provide in-site  technical advice.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/334508},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.334508},
}