Incentivizing the future adoption of best management practices on agricultural land to protect water resources: The role of past participation and experiences

Haiyan Liu; Roy Brouwer

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107389

Incentivizing the future adoption of best management practices on agricultural land to protect water resources: The role of past participation and experiences

Haiyan Liu^*, Roy Brouwer

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Best Management Practices (BMPs) incentive programs have been introduced to protect agricultural land and reduce nutrient runoff in watersheds. However, their voluntary nature has not led to the expected high participation rates. We examine influencing factors and underlying drivers that are associated with BMP adoption and farmer preferences for specific BMPs. Data are collected through an online survey in Ontario, Canada in 2019. A binary logit model is estimated to explain current participation in BMP schemes and a multinomial logit model to predict preferences for future BMP uptake. Results show that a mix of farmer and farm characteristics and environmental attitudes explain both current participation in BMP schemes and the likelihood of adopting a future BMP. Farmers tend to endorse a BMP if they currently implement that BMP. The findings furthermore suggest that increasing farmers' environmental awareness and sharing positive BMP experiences with other farmers may help expand future BMP adoption in Ontario.

Original language	English
Article number	107389
Pages (from-to)	1-11
Number of pages	11
Journal	Ecological Economics
Volume	196
Early online date	17 Mar 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107389
Publication status	Published - Jun 2022

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This work was financially supported by Global Water Futures , funded under the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF), in particular the project Agricultural Water Futures (AWF) and the SSHRC project Payments for Wetlands Ecosystem Services as a Nature-based Solution to Sustainably Manage Urbanized Watersheds (award number 890-2018-0089). We are grateful to Karen Jacobs from the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association and Brenda Dyack from the Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario for their help getting permission to distribute the survey among the members of both organizations.

Funding Information:
This work was financially supported by Global Water Futures, funded under the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF), in particular the project Agricultural Water Futures (AWF) and the SSHRC project Payments for Wetlands Ecosystem Services as a Nature-based Solution to Sustainably Manage Urbanized Watersheds (award number 890-2018-0089). We are grateful to Karen Jacobs from the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association and Brenda Dyack from the Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario for their help getting permission to distribute the survey among the members of both organizations.

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© 2022 Elsevier B.V.

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Best management practices
Driving forces
Farmer preferences
Ontario, Canada
Participation model

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