Financial Imperative or Conservation Concern? EU Farmers' Motivations for Participation in Voluntary Agri-Environmental Schemes

By G. Wilson, K. Hart. 2000

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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The potential for collaborative agri-environment schemes in England: Can a well-designed collaborative approach address farmers’ concerns with current schemes? (2012, background): “…that has highlighted the practical issues for farmers of AESs that impose what are seen as inflexible and inappropriate blanket prescriptions that take no account of geographical differences or the changeability of the weather (Sutherland, 2010; Wilson and Hart, 2000; Wilson and Hart, 2001).”
Exploring Farmers' Cultural Resistance to Voluntary Agri-environmental Schemes (2008, background): “In many cases where farmers have adopted schemes they have done so predominantly because of a combination of commercial interests and because the schemes themselves often involve very little adaptation of existing farming practices (Harrison et al. 1998; Wilson and Hart 2000; Schmitzberger et al. 20”
What drives farmers’ participation in EU agri-environmental schemes?: Results from a qualitative meta-analysis (2015, background): “Wilson and Hart (2000) reported that more conservation-oriented motivations for participation in an AES can play an important role in farmers' decision making processes around enrolment.”
Perceptions and responses to climate policy risks among California farmers (2013, background): “Programs that aim to work with the agricultural community to incentivize voluntary practice change can make participation more attractive and financially sound (Walford, 2002; Wilson and Hart, 2000).”
Farmers' willingness to provide ecosystem services and effects of their spatial distribution (2013, background): “Previous research (Wilson and Hart, 2000) has shown that although financial rewards are an important reason for farmers to participate in nature restoration, there is a recent tendency for farmers to express more conservation-oriented motivations (Lokhorst et al.”
Leverage Points for Governing Agricultural Soils: A Review of Empirical Studies of European Farmers’ Decision-Making (2018, methodology): “The results here are mixed, partly because of the large differences in what was measured specifically, from the importance of ‘clean fields’ [53] to ‘farm image’ [14], but also the influence of ‘symbolic capital’, for example on participation in AESs, depends strongly on which type of image is impor”
Social Capital and Farmers' Willingness to Adopt Countryside Stewardship Schemes (2003, unknown): “The most comprehensive study investigating the factors that influence farmers’ participation in agrienvironmental schemes involved a survey of 1,000 farm households in nine EU countries, plus Switzerland (Wilson and Hart, 2000).”