Determinants of Farm Households’ Willingness to Accept (WTA) Compensation for Conservation Technologies in Northern Ghana

Autor:	Evelyn Delali Ahiale, Kelvin Balcombe, Chittur Srinivasan
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Conservation technology/practice interval-data regression model willingness-to-accept Contingent valuation method Payment for Environmental Services Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling SH1-691 Forestry SD1-669.5
Zdroj:	Bio-based and Applied Economics, Vol 8, Iss 2 (2020)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	2280-6180 2280-6172
DOI:	10.13128/bae-8931
Popis:	This paper examines the determinants of farmers’ willingness-to-accept (WTA) in a hypothetical payment scheme for the adoption of stone and soil bunds in northern Ghana using contingent valuation data from 305 farm households. Bayesian estimation of the interval-data regression model is employed to obtain farmers’ WTA and its determinants. Besides farmer and household characteristics, farm characteristics and socioeconomic and institutional variables such as soil fertility and previous participation in conservation projects increase and decrease willingness-to-accept respectively. The results suggest that costs of soil and water conservation payment schemes may be significantly decreased by careful targeting of households more ready to accept compensation.
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