How to achieve significant reduction in pesticide use? An empirical evaluation of the impacts of pesticide taxation associated to a change in cropping practice
| dc.creator | Féménia, Fabienne | |
| dc.creator | Letort, Elodie | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T16:48:20Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T10:22:21Z | |
| dc.description | In this paper, we use an econometric approach to investigate the impacts of potential changes in cropping practices on the reduction in pesticide use implied by a taxation policy. We combine economic data, reflecting the relatively intensive cropping practices currently used in France, and experimental agronomic data on a low-input technology to estimate micro-econometric models of farmers’ production and acreage choices. In a second step, these estimated models are used to conduct policy simulations. Our results show that a small tax on pesticide use could provide agricultural producers sufficient economic incentive to adopt low-input cropping practices and thereby lead to significant reductions in pesticide use, close to public short-term objectives. However, given the limited impacts of taxation once these practices have been adopted, other public instruments or further improvement of low-input cropping systems should be considered to achieve more ambitious longer term public objectives. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.233482 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/233482/files/wp16-02.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/233482 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/618083 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/233482 | |
| dc.title | How to achieve significant reduction in pesticide use? An empirical evaluation of the impacts of pesticide taxation associated to a change in cropping practice | |
| dc.type | Text |