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- Manevska Tasevska, Gordana, et al.
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Ägg och matfågel – vilka är utmaningarna och hur resilient är produktionen?
- 2022
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Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Ägg- och matfågelproducenterna i Sverige strävar mot en hållbar utveckling, men står inför ett antal komplexa utmaningar. Resiliens, dvs. motståndskraft och anpassningsför-måga, krävs för att sektorn ska kunna hantera dessa utmaningar och leverera hållbart producerade livsmedel. I denna fokus beskriver vi hur sektorns aktörer ser på sektorns utmaningar och resiliens. Vi finner att låg lönsamhet är bland de viktigaste utmaning-arna, vilket till stor del är en konsekvens av höga kvalitetskrav. Resiliens bygger i stor utsträckning på stegvisa anpassningar i kunskap och produktion, exempelvis ökning av gårdsstorlek, teknisk utveckling och effektivare sjukdomshantering. Familjemedlemmar underlättar kortsiktiga justeringar i arbetskraftsbehov och inkomstchocker. Däremot saknas i stor utsträckning initiativ för mer långtgående transformativa förändringar.
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- Nilsson, Jerker, et al.
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Forest-owner support for their cooperative's provision of public goods
- 2020
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Ingår i: Forest Policy and Economics. - : Elsevier BV. - 1389-9341 .- 1872-7050. ; 115
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates why members support their forestry cooperative's provision of awareness-raising campaigns. The members pay for the cooperative's dissemination of information to the government, non-governmental organizations, and the public to achieve a more favorable opinion about forestry. The possible gains of the campaign are non-rivalry goods and apply to members and non-members alike, which makes the campaign a public good. A sample of 782 members of a Swedish forestry cooperative completed a questionnaire based on four theoretically motivated hypotheses. The findings indicate that members are unconcerned about nonmember benefits from campaigns. Members particularly appreciate raising awareness of production-related issues. Social influences among the population of forest owners have no major impact. Trust in the cooperative is essential for member support of the provision of public goods. Members support the cooperative's campaigns even if the outcomes are uncertain or occur in a distant future.
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- Rommel, Jens
(författare)
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A consumer perspective on corporate governance in the energy transition: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment in Germany
- 2018
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Ingår i: Energy Economics. - : Elsevier BV. - 0140-9883 .- 1873-6181. ; 75, s. 440-448
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Numerous countries seek to decarbonize their economy. Previous research has shown that the active involvement of citizens raises the acceptance of change in the energy system. While most studies on citizen participation have focused on citizens as investors, in this paper, we take a consumer perspective. Based on a sample of more than 2000 German electricity consumers, we conduct a Discrete Choice Experiment to estimate willingness to pay for co-determination rights, transparent pricing policies, and an electricity utility's profit distribution. We find large additional willingness to pay for all of these attributes, which, in total, amount to more than a quarter of the overall electricity price per kilowatt hour. Women have a higher willingness to pay of up to one Eurocent per kilowatt hour. We discuss the implications of our findings for Germany's and the European Union's energy policy. Among other things, we conclude that governmental labeling initiatives should include participation-related information to enhance consumer welfare. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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- Rommel, Jens
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A framework and methods for analysing agri-environmental contracts – The Contracts2.0 approach
- 2020
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The Contracts2.0 project aims to develop novel contract-based approaches to incentivise farmers for the increased provision of environmental public goods alongside private goods. The background to this work is the current imbalance in the provision of private and public goods from agricultural land management. This complex problem can best be addressed by using insights and methods from a range of disciplines. However, for methods and researchers to complement each other and contribute to the project aim, the parts must be brought together as a coherent whole. We developed a conceptual framework which draws on different concepts to explain the issues underlying the delivery of private and public environmental goods from agriculture.
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- Rommel, Jens
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A note on European farmers' preferences under cumulative prospect theory
- 2024
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Ingår i: Journal of Agricultural Economics. - 0021-857X .- 1477-9552. ; 75, s. 465-472
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Explaining farmer decision making using cumulative prospect theory is of increasing importance. We present a systematic review on European farmers' preferences under the cumulative prospect theory framework. We identified 17 studies covering 2324 farmers from 12 European countries. All studies report that (on average) farmers are: (i) risk averse, (ii) loss averse, and (iii) overweight small probabilities and underweight large probabilities. However, there is a large heterogeneity across and within studies. These findings have implications for the analysis and design of policy and insurance.
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- Rommel, Jens
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Actors and their roles for improving resilience of farming systems in Europe
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Rural Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0743-0167 .- 1873-1392. ; 98, s. 134-146
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Finding pathways to enhance the resilience of farming systems (FSs) in Europe is key, given the increasing challenges threatening them. FSs are complex socio-ecological systems in which social and ecological components are strongly linked. Social actors have the capacity to shape the FSs’ resilience, but there is a knowledge gap about how they can best do it. The aim of this paper is to analyse the roles played by the actors in FSs when dealing with challenges and assess how these roles may contribute to the resilience attributes (conditions that enable resilience) and resilience capacities (robustness, adaptability, and transformability). To this end, ten focus groups have been conducted across FSs in Europe. Results suggest that each actor in the FSs can shape and strengthen different resilience attributes which in turn result in combinations of resilience capacities that are specific to the FS. Thus, enabling resilience is best accomplished with actors taking different roles and jointly configuring the most adequate combination of capacities, which differs across FSs. This paper provides a set of resilience-enabling roles that delineate the pathways to make FSs more resilient. The diversity of actors and resilience-enabling pathways require flexible, coordinated and comprehensive policies that encompass the complexity of the socio-ecological systems.
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- Rommel, Jens
(författare)
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An experiment on the link between risk preferencesand the willingness to become a farmer
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. ; 2, s. 686-702
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates the link between risk preferences of agricultural students and their willingness to become a farmer. We conducted an incentivized experiment with 577 students of an agricultural university in Indonesia. Discriminating between alternative theories of decision‐ making under risk, we find that students' risk preferences behave in accordance with cumulative prospect theory, but risk preferences are not predictive of students' willingness to become a farmer. Framing the experimental lottery task in either an agricultural or a general entrepreneurship context does not alter the predictive power for the willingness to become a farmer. Our results contribute to the debates on risk and farm generational renewal, as well as the (lack of) parallelism in behavioral field experiments.
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- Rommel, Jens
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Between farms and forks: Food industry perspectives on the future of EU food labelling
- 2024
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Ingår i: Ecological Economics. - 0921-8009 .- 1873-6106. ; 2017
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study assesses how information about the provision of ecosystem services can contribute to an integrative food labelling framework within the European Unions’ Farm to Fork Strategy. By applying Q-methodology with 43 food industry experts from four European member states – Germany, Poland, Spain, and Sweden –, we identify common viewpoints among food processors, retailers and labelling organisations. We find a consensus in support of introducing new food labels that would encourage farmers to deliver more ecosystem services, such as increased farm biodiversity. Applying factor analysis and using the qualitative information from the interviews, we derive three distinct prototypes of a future European food label: 1) a producer-driven ecosystem services label, 2) a consumer-oriented information label, and 3) a new EU sustainable food label. These label prototypes are partly country-specific and invoked by multiple stakeholder groups. We conclude that a future European Union food labelling framework must account for all three label prototypes. Policymakers are advised to embrace the diversity of viewpoints of food system actors, as they are the main drivers of the success and failure of labels.
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- Rommel, Jens
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Can economic experiments contribute to a more effective CAP?
- 2021
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Ingår i: EuroChoices. - 1478-0917. ; 20, s. 42-49
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In order to keep pace with the evolution of the objectives and means of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy, evaluation tools also need to adapt. A set of tools that have proved highly effective in other policy fields is economic experiments. These allow the testing of a new policy before its implementation, provide evidence of its specific effects, and identify behavioural dimensions that can influence policy outcomes. We argue that agricultural policy should be subject to economic experiments, providing examples to illustrate how they can inform CAP design. We identify the additional efforts needed to establish further proof-of-concept, by running more – and more robust – experiments related to the CAP. This can happen only by integrating experimental evaluation results within the policy cycle and addressing ethical and practical challenges seriously. To do so, researchers would benefit from a concerted European effort to promote the methodology across the EU; organise the replication in time and across Europe of experiments relevant for the CAP; and build a multi-national panel of farmers willing to participate in experiments. Steps are being taken in this direction by the Research Network of Economics Experiments for CAP evaluation (REECAP).
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