Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/321786 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Citation: 
[Journal:] Bio-based and Applied Economics (BAE) [ISSN:] 2280-6172 [Volume:] 13 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2024 [Pages:] 13-25
Publisher: 
Firenze University Press, Florence
Abstract: 
Embedded within the European Union's Green Deal is a re-enforced scope to encourage farmers' participation in primarily voluntary agri-environmental schemes. Although outside of the European Union, the newly announced agri-environment schemes in England mirror such a policy shift towards incentivising participation in order to deliver more and better climate public goods. Farmers' viewpoints regarding such schemes and contracts are therefore important to examine, as they should be main determinants of current and future enrolment. In this paper, upland Yorkshire farmers were asked to express their opinions for the Landscape Recovery scheme that aims to encourage collaboration and achieve landscape-wide interventions to ensure lasting delivery of climate public goods. Viewpoints show divergent views between environmentally conscious farmers and pragmatic farmers objecting to the functioning of agri-environmental schemes. Farmer viewpoints lean towards 'broad and shallow' schemes that would have simple contract requirements and only achieve marginal gains in the delivery of agri-environmental climate public goods while still showing concern about the natural environment and its impact on farming.
Subjects: 
agri-environment schemes
Environment Land Management scheme
Landscape Recovery
Q methodology
JEL: 
R58
R51
Q18
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Document Type: 
Article

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