1. Cross‐Compliance for Erosion Control: Anticipating Efficiency and Distributive Impacts
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David E. Ervin, William D. Heffernan, and Gary P. Green
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Economics and Econometrics ,Equity (economics) ,business.industry ,Natural resource economics ,Erosion control ,Environmental resource management ,Differential (mechanical device) ,Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Cross compliance ,Incentive ,Distributive property ,Agriculture ,Economics ,Soil conservation ,business - Abstract
Despite increasing attention, the effects of using differential agricultural program benefits to achieve soil conservation are largely unexplored. Viewed in a conventional environmental economics framework, the popularly perceived cross-compliance program may fall short on efficiency grounds. Analysis suggests that the greatest incentive to practice conservation may occur on land with little or no net social benefits forthcoming from erosion control. A by-product of cross-compliance worth consideration is that those likely to benefit most from the program are the highest equity and largest farm operators.
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- 1984
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