Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4491719 | Agricultural Systems | 2010 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
Calculated on-farm compliance costs and environmental effects were heterogeneous in space and farm types as a result of different agricultural production and site characteristics. On-farm costs ranged from zero up to almost 1500Â Euro/ha. Such high costs occurred only in a very small part of the regional area, whereas the majority of the grassland had low on-farm costs below 50Â Euro/ha. Environmental effects were moderate and greater on high-yield than on low-yield grassland. The low effectiveness combined with low on-farm costs in large parts of the region indicates that the scheme is not well targeted. The soft scheme design results from an attempt to achieve environmental and rural development objectives with only one scheme. Improving the efficiency of the scheme would require designing separate instruments for the two distinct objectives. This is in line with the Tinbergen rule, which states that consistent economic policy requires that the number of instruments equals the number of targets.
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Authors
Sandra Uthes, Claudia Sattler, Peter Zander, Annette Piorr, Bettina Matzdorf, Martin Damgaard, Amanda Sahrbacher, Johannes Schuler, Chris Kjeldsen, Uwe Heinrich, Holger Fischer,