From Microlevel Decisions to Landscape Changes: An Assessment of Agricultural Conservation Policies
By Junjie Wu, Richard M. Adams, Catherine L. Kling, Katsuya Tanaka. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2004
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The growth in conservation programs has created a need for modeling frameworks capable of measuring microlevel behavioral responses and macrolevel landscape changes. This paper presents an empirical model that predicts farmers' production practices and the resulting levels of agricultural runoffs at more than 42,000 agricultural sites in the upper‐Mississippi river basin under alternative conservation policies. Results suggest that payments for conservation tillage and crop rotations increase the use of these conservation practices. However, the acreage response is inelastic and the programs are not likely to be cost effective on their own for addressing hypoxia problem in the Gulf of Mexico.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change
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- Adoption of agricultural conservation practices in the United States: Evidence from 35 years of quantitative literature (2019, background): “Having more labor available (Cooper and Keim 1996) to install practices and learn about or undertake new management activities are expected to be positively related to adoption, as is expecting a yield increase (Rahelizatovo 2002; Wu et al. 2004).”
- Resilience in Agriculture through Crop Diversification: Adaptive Management for Environmental Change (2011, background): “Such results allowed policymakers to concentrate on alternate conservation options and incentives that would have a larger impact on the ultimate goal of reducing hypoxia (Wu et al. 2004).”
- Adaptation of agricultural and food systems to climate change: an economic and policy perspective. (2010, background): “…highly detailed data and complex production system or household models (e.g. see Crissman, Antle and Capalbo 1998; Berger; Stoorvogel et al. 2001; Wu et al. 2004; Holden 2005; Lee and Barrett 2001; Lubowski, Plantinga and Stavins 2006; Moyo et al. 2007; Adato and Meinzen-Dick 2007; van Ittersum…”
- Green Subsidies in Agriculture: Estimating the Adoption Costs of Conservation Tillage from Observed Behavior (Revised) (2006, background): “9In this study, similarly to Wu et al. (2004), we implicitly assume that the choice of the crop grown is independent of and precedes that of the tillage decision.”
- Empathy-Conditioned Conservation: “Walking in the Shoes of Others” as a Conservation Farmer (2009, background): “For example, modeling of conservation behavior in the upper Mississippi River region indicates that increasing conservation payments would produce minimal change in rates of soil erosion, nitrate leaching, and nitrate runoff in the area (Wu et al. 2004); increased conservation payments are not likel”