Scaling up pro-environmental agricultural practice using agglomeration payments: Proof of concept from an agent-based model
Scaling up pro-environmental agricultural practice using agglomeration payments: Proof of concept from an agent-based model
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10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.03.002
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2016-06-01
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7
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benton, Tim G.
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作者：
Bell, Andrew;Parkhurst, Gregory;benton, Tim G.
在世界许多地方，农业采用有利于环境的做法的比率很低。在某些情况下，这是由于农民为采用这些做法而承担的私人成本，往往远远超过这些做法可能带来的任何公共或私人利益。货币激励措施，如通过生态系统服务（PES）计划，可能是援助，在这项研究中，我们研究了最近的创新（聚集支付），以提高采用环保的做法在农村农业背景下的潜力。聚集支付包括奖励邻近农场采用的奖金，这可能有助于鼓励遵守他们促进的方案以及该方案在农村范围内的全面推广。我们开发了一个抽象的基于代理的模型（ABM）的聚集支付计划，以鼓励采用保护性农业（CA）的亲环境的做法。我们发现，聚集支付有可能提高采用亲环境的做法，每计划美元的水平，并可能有助于减少所需的项目监测和执行的支出。(C)© 2016 Elsevier B.V.版权所有。
Rates of adoption of pro-environmental practices in agriculture in many parts of the world are low. In some cases, this is attributable to the private costs borne by farmers to adopt these practices, often well in advance of any benefits - public or private- that they may bring. Monetary incentives, such as through payments-for-ecosystem services (PES) programs, may be of assistance, and in this study we examine the potential for a recent innovation (the agglomeration payment) to improve adoption of pro-environmental practice in a rural agricultural context. Agglomeration payments include bonus payments for adoption by neighboring farms, which may help to encourage both compliance with the program they promote as well as the overall diffusion of the program across rural contexts. We develop an abstract agent-based model (ABM) of an agglomeration payment program to encourage adoption of the pro-environment practice of conservation agriculture (CA). We find that agglomeration payments have the potential to improve levels of adoption of pro-environmental practice per program dollar, and may help to reduce required spending on project monitoring and enforcement. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.