Valuation of environmental and social functions of the multifunctional Cypriot agriculture |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Agricultural Technology, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, 57400 Sindos, Thessaloniki, Greece;2. Lab. of Animal Production Economics, School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, P.O. Box 410, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece;1. South Dakota State University, Department of Sociology and Rural Studies, United States;2. Sierra Nevada College, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, United States;3. Purdue University, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, United States;1. Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Alameda Urquijo 4-4, 48008 Bilbao, Spain;2. Department d''Història i Institucions Econòmiques, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat d''Economia i Empresa, Av. Diagonal 690, 08034 Barcelona, Spain;3. Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada II, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034 Barcelona, Spain;4. Department of History, University of Saskatchewan, 9 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5, Canada;5. Laboratorio de Historia de los Agroecosistemas, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Carretera de Utrera, km 1 41013, Sevilla, Spain;6. Institute of Social Ecology, Alpen-Adria Klagenfurt University in Vienna, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies, Schottenfeldgasse 29, A-1070 Vienna, Austria;7. Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, UMR 5203 CNRS-U661 INSERM, 141 Rue de la Cardonille, 34094 Montpellier, France;1. Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark;2. Environmental Science Department, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Calea Turzii No. 4, 400193 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;3. Social–Ecological Systems Laboratory, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C/Darwin 2, C-201, 28049 Madrid, Spain;4. European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism, Penygraig, Llanfair Clydogau, Lampeter SA48 8LJ, UK;5. Department of Vegetation and Phytodiversity Analysis, University of Göttingen, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073 Göttingen, Germany;6. Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK;7. Department of Graphics Design, University of Extremadura, 10600 Plasencia, Spain;8. Forestry School, University of Extremadura, 10600 Plasencia, Spain;9. Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Kliniekstraat 25, 1070 Brussels, Belgium |
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| Abstract: | The multifunctional farming sector in Cyprus poses threats on the island’s water resources, but highly contributes to the protection of the cultural identity and to the provision of incomes and employment in its rural areas. These services are externalities, as farmers are not remunerated in markets for the environmental and cultural services they provide, nor for the fact that they maintain vivid rural areas. This paper presents an application of the Choice Experiment method, in order to evaluate these non-traded outputs of Cypriot agriculture. The results of the empirical analysis demonstrate that the Cypriot public is in favor of a less intensive pattern of agriculture. Furthermore, Cypriots are willing to pay in order to mitigate adverse environmental effects of agriculture, to improve cultural heritage and to safeguard the continuation of farming trade on the island. The estimated benefits often exceed income losses from changes in the cropping pattern towards extensification, which verifies that EU rural development policies are regarded as beneficial by the public. |
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| Keywords: | Choice experiment Externalities Rural development Agrochemical use Common agricultural policy Farming system productivity |
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