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Yay, #Publication Alert! 🥳📣 A new article published in Ecological Economics in which we conduct a cross-country discrete choice experiment (#DCE). We investigate whether 767 French, Dutch, and UK farmers prefer public or private funding options for conservation measures. 1/5

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Moritz Peter Fritschle

@moritzfritschle.bsky.social

The farmers prefer agri-environmental contracts organized by the government over contracts from retailers or NGOs. AE contracts with fixed per hectare payments are preferred over those with price premiums with a label. 2/5

Moritz Peter Fritschle

@moritzfritschle.bsky.social

Contracts granting the option to join a farmer cluster (which is a group of farmers with the aim of landscape-scale conservation) are more liked by farmers than contracts without clusters. Substantial heterogeneity exists in farmers’ preferences for agri-environmental contracts. 3/5

Moritz Peter Fritschle

@moritzfritschle.bsky.social

Many thanks to my amazing co-authors Laure Kuhfuss @inrae-france.bsky.social and Tobias Vorlaufer @zalf.bsky.social. The DCE was pre-registered on OSF @cos.io based on the new template of Julian Sagebiel, @qrisschulze.bsky.social , and @jensrommel.bsky.social. 4/5

Moritz Peter Fritschle

@moritzfritschle.bsky.social

The article is open access and can be read by following this link: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.meNavigating public and private funding options for conservation measures: A cross-country comparison of western European farmers' preferencesEvidence in economics highlights the importance of the design of agri-environmental contracts for farmers' participation. However, there is little evi…