Agricultural Demand for Compensation to Adopt BMPs in Ontario

The main goal of this research in Agricultural Water Futures is to investigate farmers current Best Management Practices (BMPs) adoption status and elicit their demand for monetary compensation to take certain measures. We pay particular attention to the factors and conditions that incentivize farmers adoption. The core part of the project is to design a discrete choice experiment which specifies a couple of hypothetical BMP options for pre-identified attributes. Choice experiment, as a stated preference method, along with other socio-demographic characteristics of the farmer and farm operation data, can recover estimates of farmers willingness-to-accept for taking up BMPs.This dataset is collected to support the objectives of Agricultural Water Futures in Canada: Stressors and Solutions: Work Package 3'. Agricultural Water Futures is a Pillar 3 project under the Global Water Futures Program funded by Canada First Research Excellence Fund.