@article{Espinosa-Goded:50328,
      recid = {50328},
      author = {Espinosa-Goded, Maria and Barreiro-Hurlé, Jesús and Ruto,  Eric},
      title = {MODELING FARMERS PREFENCES FOR AGRIENVIRONMENTAL SCHEME  DESIGN: A SPANISH CASE STUDY},
      address = {2009-08},
      number = {1005-2016-79294},
      series = {Contributed Paper},
      pages = {18},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {Agri-environmental schemes (AES) have had a limited effect  on European agriculture due to farmer’s reluctance to  participate in them. Information on the role that AES  design can have on encouraging farmers to participate can  be an important input into the design of such policies.  This paper investigates farmers’ preferences for different  design options related to a specific AES in Spain using a  mixed logit error component choice experiment approach  allowing for preference heterogeneity and correlation  amongst the non status quo alternatives. In particular,  findings show farmers preference for greater flexibility in  scheme implementation, presence of a fixed-rate payment per  contract and additional advisory services. However,  heterogeneity in the value of the AES attributes across  regions and farmers is significant. The results show that  there is room for improvement in current AES design that  will lead to higher adoption rates however, farmer  reluctance to AES sign-up is still substantial.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/50328},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.50328},
}