Would an ecological reconversion program for the Andalusian mountain olive groves be economically efficient?

Rubén Granado-Díaz

Spain

Universidad de Córdoba

WEARE: Water, Environmental and Agricultural Resources Economics Research Group.

Anastasio J. Villanueva

Spain

Instituto de Investigación y Formación Agraria y Pesquera-IFAPA; Universidad de Córdoba

IFAPA, Área de Economía de la Cadena Alimentaria, Centro Camino de Purchil, Granada

WEARE: Water, Environmental and Agricultural Resources Economics Research Group. Universidad de Córdoba

José Antonio Gómez-Limón

Spain

Universidad de Córdoba

WEARE: Water, Environmental and Agricultural Resources Economics Research Group.

Submitted: 2019-08-29

|

Accepted: 2019-10-31

|

Published: 2020-06-01

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7201/earn.2020.01.05
Funding Data

Downloads

Keywords:

Farm abandonment, Public goods, Agri-environment schemes, Less favorable areas

Supporting agencies:

Programa Horizonte 2020 de investigación e innovación de la Unión Europea a través del proyecto PROVIDE (PROVIding smart DElivery of public goods by EU agriculture and forestry

Grant agreement No 633838).

Abstract:

This paper analyses the efficiency of a possible agri-environmental scheme aimed at promoting the partial or complete abandonment of the agricultural production in mountain olive groves in Andalusia in order to enhance the provision of environmental public goods (biodiversity and soil functionality). The results obtained show that this scheme would generate positive net social gains (public benefits greater than social costs) only if the scheme is focused on low-yield olive farms and includes low to moderate payments (125 and 500 €/ha·year for partial and total abandonment, respectively).
Show more Show less

References:

Assandri, G., Morganti, M., Bogliani, G. & Pulido, F. (2017). “The value of abandoned olive groves for blackcaps (Sylvia atricapilla) in a Mediterranean agroecosystem: A year-round telemetry study”. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 63(1), 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10344-017-1082-9

Auerbach, A.J. & Hines, J.R. (2002). “Taxation and economic efficiency”. En Auerbach, A.J. & Feldstein, M. (Eds.): Handbook of Public Economics (pp. 1347- 1421). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Bateman, I.J., Langford, I.H., Jones, A.P. & Kerr, G.N. (2001). “Bound and path effects in double and triple bounded dichotomous choice contingent valuation”. Resource and Energy Economics, 23(3), 191-213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ S0928-7655(00)00044-0

Campoy, P., Cardenete, M.A. & Delgado, M.C. (2015). “Análisis estructural a través de matrices de contabilidad social: una aplicación a la economía andaluza para el período 2005-2010”. Perspectiva Socioeconómica, 1(1), 7-28.

Christensen, T., Pedersen, A.B., Nielsen, H.O., Mørkbak, M.R., Hasler, B. & Denver, S. (2011). “Determinants of farmers’ willingness to participate in subsidy schemes for pesticide-free buffer zones-A choice experiment study”. Ecological Economics, 70(8), 1558-1564. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.03.021

Colombo, S. (2017). “La rentabilidad de los distintos tipos de olivar y las estrategias de desarrollo”. En Gómez-Limón, J.A. & Parras, M. (Eds.): Economía y comercialización de los aceites de oliva. Factores y perspectivas para el liderazgo español del mercado global (pp. 77-106). Almería: Cajamar Caja Rural.

Consejería de Agricultura, Pesca y Desarrollo Rural (CAPDR). (2015). Decreto 103/2015, de 10 de marzo, por el que se aprueba el Plan Director del Olivar. Sevilla: Consejería de Agricultura, Pesca y Desarrollo Rural, Junta de Andalucía.

Consejería de Agricultura, Pesca y Desarrollo Rural (CAPDR). (2017). Costes medios de producción: aceite de oliva. Campaña 2016/17. Sevilla: Consejería de Agricultura, Pesca y Desarrollo Rural, Junta de Andalucía.

Consejería de Agricultura y Pesca (CAP). (2008). El sector del aceite de oliva y de la aceituna de mesa en Andalucía. Sevilla: Consejería de Agricultura y Pesca, Junta de Andalucía.

Dahlby, B. (2008). The Marginal Cost of Public Funds: Theory and Applications. Cambridge, USA: MIT University Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262042505.001.0001

Duarte, F., Jones, N. & Fleskens, L. (2008). “Traditional olive orchards on sloping land: Sustainability or abandonment?” Journal of Environmental Management, 89(2), 86-98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2007.05.024

Duarte, J., Campos, M., Guzmán, J.R., Beaufoy, G., Farfán, M.A., Cotes, B., Benítez, E., Vargas, J.M. & Muñoz-Cobo, J. (2009). “Olivar y biodiversidad”. En Gómez Calero, J.A. (Ed.): Sostenibilidad de la producción de olivar en Andalucía (pp. 162-222). Sevilla: Consejería de Agricultura y Pesca, Junta de Andalucía.

Gómez-Limón, J.A. & Arriaza, M. (2011). Evaluación de la sostenibilidad de las explotaciones de olivar en Andalucía. Málaga: Analistas Económicos de Andalucía

Gómez-Limón, J.A., Gutiérrezâ€Martín, C. & Villanueva, A.J. (2019). “Optimal design of agriâ€environmental schemes under asymmetric information for improving farmland biodiversity”. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 70(1), 153-177. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12279

Granado-Díaz, R., Villanueva, A.J., Gómez-Limón, J.A. & Rodríguez-Entrena, M. (2018). “Análisis de la heterogeneidad de la demanda de bienes públicos procedentes del olivar de montaña en Andalucía”. ITEA-Información Técnica Económica Agraria, 114(2), 158-182. http://dx.doi.org/10.12706/itea.2018.011

Hanemann, M., Loomis, J. & Kanninen, B. (1991). “Statistical efficiency of double-bounded dichotomous choice contingent valuation”. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 73(4), 1255-1263. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1242453

Heath, M. & Raymem, M. (2003). “Using bird data to develop biodiversity indicators for agriculture”. En Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (Ed.): Agriculture and Biodiversity. Developing Indicators for Policy Analysis (pp. 105-132). Paris: OECD Publications.

Junta de Andalucía. (2015). Programa de Desarrollo Rural de Andalucía Período 2014-2020. Sevilla: Junta de Andalucía.

Keenleyside, C. & Tucker, G. (2010). Farmland Abandonment in the EU: An Assessment of Trends and Prospects. London: Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP).

Kleven, H.J. & Kreiner, C.T. (2006). “The marginal cost of public funds: Hours of work versus labor force participation”. Journal of Public Economics, 90(10-11), 1955-1973. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2006.03.006

Lasanta, T., Nadal-Romero, E. & Arnáez, J. (2015). “Managing abandoned farmland to control the impact of re-vegetation on the environment. The state of the art in Europe”. Environmental Science & Policy, 52, 99-109. http://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.envsci.2015.05.012

Leal Filho, W., Mandel, M., Al-Amin, A.Q., Feher, A. & Chiappetta Jabbour, C.J. (2017). “An assessment of the causes and consequences of agricultural land abandonment in Europe”. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 24(6), 554-560. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2016.1240113

Lienhoop, N. & Brouwer, R. (2015). “Agri-environmental policy valuation: Farmers’ contract design preferences for afforestation schemes”. Land Use Policy, 42, 568- 577. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.09.017

MacDonald, D., Crabtree, J.R., Wiesinger, G., Dax, T., Stamou, N., Fleury, P., Gutierrez Lazpita, J. & Gibon, A. (2000). “Agricultural abandonment in mountain areas of Europe: Environmental consequences and policy response”. Journal of Environmental Management, 59(1), 47-69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jema.1999.0335

Nekhay, O. & Arriaza, M. (2009). “Restoration of abandoned agricultural lands toward habitats for umbrella species”. Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 7(2), 375-389. http://dx.doi.org/10.5424/sjar/2009072-429

Nieto, O.M., Castro, J. & Fernández-Ondoño, E. (2013). “Conventional tillage versus cover crops in relation to carbon fixation in Mediterranean olive cultivation”. Plant and Soil, 365(1), 321-335. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-012-1395-0

Pérez-Mohedano, D. (2005). “Diferentes frecuencias de poda en olivares tradicionales”. Vida Rural, 218, 42-44.

Rey-Benayas, J.M., Martins, A., Nicolau, J.M. & Schulz, J.J. (2007). “Abandonment of agricultural land: An overview of drivers and consequences”. CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources, 2(57), 1-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/PAVSNNR20072057

Rocamora-Montiel, B., Glenk, K. & Colombo, S. (2014). “Territorial management contracts as a tool to enhance the sustainability of sloping and mountainous olive orchards: Evidence from a case study in Southern Spain”. Land Use Policy, 41, 313-325. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.06.016

Rodrigo-Comino, J., Martínez-Hernández, C., Iserloh, T. & Cerdá, A. (2018). “Contrasted impact of land abandonment on soil erosion in Mediterranean agriculture fields”. Pedosphere, 28(4), 617-631. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1002-0160(17)60441-7

Rodríguez-Entrena, M., Barreiro-Hurlé, J., Gómez-Limón, J.A., Espinosa-Goded, M. & Castro-Rodríguez, J. (2012). “Evaluating the demand for carbon sequestration in olive grove soils as a strategy toward mitigating climate change”. Journal of Environmental Management, 112, 368-376. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.08.004

Rodríguez-Entrena, M., Colombo, S. & Arriaza, M. (2017). “The landscape of olive groves as a driver of the rural economy”. Land Use Policy, 65, 164-175. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.03.017

Romero-Díaz, A., Ruiz-Sinoga, J.D., Robledano-Aymerich, F., Brevik, E.C. & Cerdà, A. (2017). “Ecosystem responses to land abandonment in Western Mediterranean mountains”. Catena, 149, 824-835. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2016.08.013

Sánchez, J.D., Garrido, A. & Paniza, A. (2018). “Los olivares de montaña en la provincia de Jaén y sus desafíos territoriales”. Ager: Revista de Estudios sobre Despoblación y Desarrollo Rural, 24, 1-36. http://dx.doi.org/10.4422/ager.2017.04

Schulz, N., Breustedt, G. & Latacz-Lohmann, U. (2014). “Assessing farmers’ willingness to accept ‘greening’: Insights from a discrete choice experiment in Germany”. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 65(1), 26-48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12044

Solomou, A.D. & Sfougaris, A.I. (2014). “Bird community characteristics as indicators of sustainable management in olive grove ecosystems of central Greece”. Journal of Natural History, 49(5-8), 301-325. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0022293 3.2014.987839

Stroosnijder, L., Mansinho, M.I. & Palese, A.M. (2008). “OLIVERO: The project analysing the future of olive production systems on sloping land in the Mediterranean basin”. Journal of Environmental Management, 89(2), 75-85. http://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2007.05.025

Terres, J.M., Nisini, L. & Anguiano, E. (2013). Assessing the Risk of Farmland Abandonment in the EU. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. http://dx.doi.org/10.2788/81337

Ustaoglu, E. & Collier, M.J. (2018). “Farmland abandonment in Europe: An overview of drivers, consequences, and assessment of the sustainability implications”. Environmental Reviews, 26(4), 396-416. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/er-2018-0001

Van Der Sluis, T., Kizos, T. & Pedroli, B. (2014). “Landscape change in Mediterranean farmlands: Impacts of land abandonment on cultivation terraces in Portofino (Italy) and Lesvos (Greece)”. Journal of Landscape Ecology, 7(1), 23-44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jlecol-2014-0008

van Hall, R.L., Cammeraat, L.H., Keesstra, S.D. & Zorn, M. (2017). “Impact of secondary vegetation succession on soil quality in a humid Mediterranean landscape”. Catena, 149, 836-843. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2016.05.021

van Kooten, G.C. & Schmitz, A. (1992). “Preserving waterfowl habitat on the Canadian prairies: Economic incentives versus moral suasion”. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 74(1), 79-89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1242992

Vedel, S.E., Jacobsen, J.B. & Thorsen, B.J. (2015). “Contracts for afforestation and the role of monitoring for landowners’ willingness to accept”. Forest Policy and Economics, 51, 29-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2014.11.007

Villanueva, A.J., Gómez-Limón, J.A. & Rodríguez-Entrena, M. (2017). “Valoración de la oferta de bienes públicos por parte de los sistemas agrarios: el caso del olivar de montaña en Andalucía”. Economía Agraria y Recursos Naturales, 17(1), 25- 58. http://dx.doi.org/10.7201/earn.2017.01.02

Villanueva, A.J., Granado-Díaz, R. & Gómez-Limón, J.A. (2018). La producción de bienes públicos por parte de los sistemas agrarios. Córdoba: UCOPress, Editorial Universidad de Córdoba.

Westhoek, H.J., Overmars, K.P. & van Zeijts, H. (2013). “The provision of public goods by agriculture: Critical questions for effective and efficient policy ma¬king”. Environmental Science & Policy, 32, 5-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j. envsci.2012.06.015.

Wossink, G.A.A. & van Wenum, J.H. (2003). “Biodiversity conservation by farmers: Analysis of actual and contingent participation”. European Review of Agricultu¬ral Economics, 30(4), 461-485. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/erae/30.4.461.

Show more Show less