The willingness to adopt agro-ecological innovations: Application of choice modelling to Caribbean banana planters

Blazy, J-M. and Carpentier, A. and Thomas, A. (2011) The willingness to adopt agro-ecological innovations: Application of choice modelling to Caribbean banana planters. Ecological Economics, 72. pp. 140-150.

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Abstract

This paper proposes an ex ante evaluation of the willingness to adopt agro-ecological innovations aimed at reducing pesticide use for banana production in the French West Indies. Four innovative systems, including intercropping, improved fallow and new pest-tolerant varieties, are proposed to a sample of 607 planters, with innovation and policy attributes calibrated from a bio-economic farm model. The model interacts technological and economic innovation attributes with farmer individual factors, and allows for a dual source of unobserved heterogeneity. We estimate a system of random coefficient Logit models, to obtain marginal values of innovation traits that can be useful for targeting farm types with appropriate innovations and designing policies for securing agricultural revenue.

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Additional Information: The authors wish to thank François Causeret, Jean-Louis Diman and the Farmers’ Unions fromGuadeloupe andMartinique “Les producteurs de Guadeloupe”, “Banalliance” and “Banamart” for helping with the design and the administration of the survey. We are also grateful to two anonymous reviewers, and M'hand Fares, Eric Justes and Jacques-Eric Bergez for helpful comments. This work received financial support fromthe French National Research Agency (ANR) under project ANR-05-PADD-010, GeDuQuE, and fromthe FrenchMinistry of Ecology (SYBAN project).
Uncontrolled Keywords: Agro-ecological system, Choice experiment,Agricultural innovation, Caribbean banana production, Random-coefficient logit
Author Affiliation: INRA, UR1321, Agrosystèmes Tropicaux, 97170, Petit-Bourg, France
Subjects: Plant Production
Divisions: Other Crops
Depositing User: Mr Siva Shankar
Date Deposited: 20 Jun 2012 06:34
Last Modified: 20 Jun 2012 06:35
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.09.021
URI: http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/6118

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