Information provision and preferences for more sustainable dairy farming: Choice experimental evidence from Sweden

IF 1.3 Q3 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY
O. Oyinbo, Helena Hansson
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Dairy farming in Europe faces profound environmental, social, and economic sustainability challenges, which are of significant policy interest. These challenges support the need for a transition toward the uptake of more sustainable dairy farming practices. This paper examines the effects of an advisory instrument “balanced sustainability information” on farmers’ preferences for more grass-based feeding systems using a between-subjects design and a discrete choice experiment among a sample of Swedish dairy farmers. Conceptually, we develop a state-dependent utility framework with Bayesian updating to motivate the impact pathway. Our results demonstrate that on average, balanced sustainability information has negligible effects on farmers’ feed choices, which could be a consequence of opposing responses to the information, among others. Considering farmer heterogeneity based on their identities and prior knowledge, we find support for some evidence of treatment effects. Our findings highlight important and policy-relevant critical reflections about overoptimistic expectations of information provision as an instrument to nudge behavioral change toward more sustainable farming practices.
信息提供与更可持续的奶牛养殖偏好:瑞典的选择实验证据
欧洲的奶牛养殖业面临着深刻的环境、社会和经济可持续发展的挑战,这与政策息息相关。这些挑战表明,有必要过渡到采用更具可持续性的奶牛饲养方式。本文以瑞典奶农为样本,采用主体间设计和离散选择实验的方法,研究了 "均衡的可持续发展信息 "这一咨询工具对奶农更偏好以草为基础的饲喂系统的影响。从概念上讲,我们建立了一个贝叶斯更新的状态依赖效用框架,以激发影响途径。我们的结果表明,平均而言,平衡的可持续性信息对奶农饲料选择的影响微乎其微,这可能是对信息的相反反应等因素造成的。考虑到农民基于其身份和先前知识的异质性,我们发现了一些治疗效果的证据。我们的研究结果凸显了对信息提供的过于乐观的预期的重要的、与政策相关的批判性反思,信息提供作为一种工具,可以促使行为改变,从而实现更可持续的农业实践。
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Agricultural and Resource Economics Review
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY-
CiteScore
2.20
自引率
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发文量
23
审稿时长
19 weeks
期刊介绍: The purpose of the Review is to foster and disseminate professional thought and literature relating to the economics of agriculture, natural resources, and community development. It is published twice a year in April and October. In addition to normal refereed articles, it also publishes invited papers presented at the annual meetings of the NAREA as well as abstracts of selected papers presented at those meetings. The Review was formerly known as the Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
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