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Financial incentives often fail to reconcile agricultural productivity and pro-conservation behavior

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Title Financial incentives often fail to reconcile agricultural productivity and pro-conservation behavior
 
Creator Bell, Andrew R.
Rakotonarivo, O. Sarobidy
Bhargava, Apurva
Duthie, A. Bradley
Zhang, Wei
Sargent, Rebecca
Lewis, Amy R.
Kipchumba, Adams
 
Subject resources
environment
production
conservation
collective action
livelihoods
agricultural production
education
gender
women
incentives
 
Description Paying resource users to preserve features of their environment could in theory better align production and conservation goals. We show, however, that across a range of conservation dilemmas, they might not. We conduct a synthesis of dynamic games experiments built around collective action dilemmas in conservation, played across Europe, Africa, and Asia. We find, across this range of dilemmas, that while payments can encourage pro-conservation behavior, they often fail to capitalize on the potential for jointly improving productive and environmental outcomes, highlighting the more nuanced challenge of reconciling livelihoods with conservation goals. We further find production (yield) and the joint production-environment product (i.e., a measure of agricultural production multiplied by a measure of pro-conservation practice) are better preserved in groups that are more educated, more gender diverse and that better represent women. We discuss how the design of incentive programs can better align livelihood and environment goals.
 
Date 2023-02-08
2023-02-14T17:14:27Z
2023-02-14T17:14:27Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Bell, Andrew R.; Rakotonarivo, O. Sarobidy; Bhargava, Apurva; Duthie, A. Bradley; Zhang, Wei; Sargent, Rebecca; Lewis, Amy R.; and Kipchumba, Adams. 2023. Financial incentives often fail to reconcile agricultural productivity and pro-conservation behavior. Communications Earth & Environment 4. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00689-6
2662-4435
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128709
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-00689-6
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00689-6
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Publisher Springer
 
Source Communications Earth & Environment