Adoption of environmental friendly practices in agriculture: Impact of environmental benefit incentive program in Costa Rica

• Main Authors: Lamour, Anais, Sáenz-Ségura, Fernando, Le Coq, Jean-François, EZZINE DE BLAS, Driss
• Other Authors: Acteurs, Ressources et Territoires dans le Développement (UMR ART-Dev), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM), Département Environnements et Sociétés (Cirad-ES), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), Biens et services des écosystèmes forestiers tropicaux : l'enjeu du changement global (UPR BSEF), s.e.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2014
• Subjects: hisphilso; envir; Reykjavík; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03069469

International audience Aside from well-known payment for environmental services program (PSE) for forest conservation, Costa Rica engaged since 2007 in conditional rewards program (RBA for its acronym in spanish) to incentive adoption of agriculture practices that provide environmental externalities (RBA) Based on direct interviews to farmers and cooperatives, we assess 1) the factors that contribute to adoption of technology at cooperative or individual levels, 2) the complementarity between RBA and other incentives such as PES and eco-label. We finally discuss the effect of this conditional payment program regarding the generation of externalities, point out some design failure that explains limits of the results, and finally propose some options according to the different purpose of the program. (Résumé d'auteur) Communication en libre accès, document disponible en ligne : http://isee2014.yourhost.is/images/abstracts.pdf