Understanding dairy farmers' trade-offs between environmental, social and economic sustainability attributes in feeding systems: The role of farmers' identities

IF 3.4 2区 经济学 Q1 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY
Oyakhilomen Oyinbo, Helena Hansson
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Abstract

There is scope for improving the sustainability of intensive dairy farms through the uptake of sustainable production practices such as more grass-based feeding systems. Such feeding systems can reduce feed-food competition and the environmental impacts of feed production, among other farm-level and societal benefits. However, empirical research on how farmers' feed choices mis(align) with sustainability transitions and the associated drivers is limited. This paper explores the trade-offs that farmers make between the environmental, social and economic sustainability impacts of grass-based feeding systems based on data from Swedish dairy farmers. Using an identity-based utility framework and a hybrid latent class model, we find substantial heterogeneity in dairy farmers' trade-offs between feed-related sustainability attributes: greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity, animal welfare, feed self-sufficiency, feed cost and milk yield. Furthermore, our findings demonstrate that farmers who are strongly interested in the environmental and social sustainability impacts of their dairy feeding systems, beyond economic gains, are motivated mainly by their pro-environmental and pro-social identities. Overall, our findings imply that identity-enhancing interventions are promising policy instruments for encouraging the uptake of more grass-based feeding systems.

了解奶农在饲喂系统的环境、社会和经济可持续性属性之间的权衡:奶农身份的作用
通过采用可持续生产方式(如更多以草为基础的饲喂系统),集约化奶牛场的可持续发展仍有改善空间。此类饲喂系统可减少饲料与食品之间的竞争,降低饲料生产对环境的影响,并带来其他农场层面和社会效益。然而,关于养殖户的饲料选择如何与可持续发展转型及相关驱动因素错(合)的实证研究十分有限。本文基于瑞典奶农的数据,探讨了奶农在草食饲养系统的环境、社会和经济可持续性影响之间的权衡。利用基于身份的效用框架和混合潜类模型,我们发现奶农在权衡与饲料相关的可持续发展属性(温室气体排放、生物多样性、动物福利、饲料自给率、饲料成本和产奶量)时存在很大的异质性。此外,我们的研究结果表明,除经济收益外,对奶牛饲养系统的环境和社会可持续性影响抱有浓厚兴趣的奶农主要是受其亲环境和亲社会身份的激励。总之,我们的研究结果表明,增强认同感的干预措施是鼓励采用更多基于草地的饲喂系统的有前途的政策工具。
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Journal of Agricultural Economics
Journal of Agricultural Economics 管理科学-农业经济与政策
CiteScore
7.90
自引率
2.90%
发文量
48
审稿时长
>24 weeks
期刊介绍: Published on behalf of the Agricultural Economics Society, the Journal of Agricultural Economics is a leading international professional journal, providing a forum for research into agricultural economics and related disciplines such as statistics, marketing, business management, politics, history and sociology, and their application to issues in the agricultural, food, and related industries; rural communities, and the environment. Each issue of the JAE contains articles, notes and book reviews as well as information relating to the Agricultural Economics Society. Published 3 times a year, it is received by members and institutional subscribers in 69 countries. With contributions from leading international scholars, the JAE is a leading citation for agricultural economics and policy. Published articles either deal with new developments in research and methods of analysis, or apply existing methods and techniques to new problems and situations which are of general interest to the Journal’s international readership.
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