This paper deals with a cross section analysis of local compensation payments to farmers for their provision of … tourist communities start compensating their farmers for landscape-enhancing activities. Local subsidy schemes supplement …

Agro-biodiversity can provide natural insurance to risk averse farmers. We employ a conceptual ecological …-economic model to analyze the choice of agrobiodiversity by risk averse farmers who have access to financial insurance. We study the …-biodiversity, through ecosystem processes at higher hierarchical levels, generates a positive externality on other farmers. We show that for …

Agro-biodiversity can provide natural insurance to risk-averse farmers by reducing the variance of crop yield, and to … analyze the choice of agro-biodiversity by risk-averse farmers who have access to financial insurance, and study the … increasing environmental risk leads private farmers to increase their level of on-farm agro-biodiversity, the level of agro …

farms to allow family farmers to remain in the countryside as high-value producers. I assert that this this development … experience of organic farmers in the EU as a lesson for schemes paying for environmental services, I suggest that the success of … organic farming should be evaluated by the numbers of participating farmers, rather than by area covered, as has been the …