CONSOLE_WP3_Task3.2_ Pan-EU survey of farmers and other rural

Data collected from the French farmers’ survey with in addition to the pan-european questions, the choice experiment data. The objective is to better understand their expectations for the implementation of payments for environmental services contracts (PES). The CE was included as a section of a pan-EU survey on the acceptability of agri-environmental-climate contract solutions, conducted in spring 2021 among 130 farmers located in Brittany, Normandy and Pays de La Loire. Voluntary farmers were contacted to organize a face-to-face interview after being recommended by intermediaries (farmers union, organizations of milk producers, farmers associations…). The first section of the survey includes general information on farmer and farm characteristics, and the second section on the impact of contract characteristics on the willingness to adopt contractual solutions. In particular, farmers were asked to state from a scale from 1 to 5 how much would the possibility to collectively agree on environmental targets and measures at landscape-level together with other land managers, and to receive a common payment to be distributed among participants, increase or decrease their willingness to enroll? In this third section dedicated to the CE, respondents were introduced to the context, objective and rules of the game of the CE, and to the contract parameters (those fixed and those varying from one alternative to another). Preliminary questions were included to help the respondents estimating their current levels of management requirements (individual status-quo). The current soil cover duration was calculated from the stated hectares of permanent grasslands, arable crops, permanent crops and total utilised agricultural area (UAA), as well as the average number of days with bare soil on arable lands and proportion of grass cover on the permanent crops surfaces. The current hedgerows density was calculated from the total UAA and total meters of multispecies multilayer hedgerows currently present on the farmland. Farmers were then asked 9 times to choose the preferred option among 2 contract alternatives and the status-quo.

本数据集源自法国农户调研，除泛欧洲通用调研问题外，还包含选择实验（Choice Experiment, CE）数据，旨在深入理解农户对环境服务付费（Payments for Environmental Services, PES）合同落地的预期。该CE模块被纳入2021年春季开展的泛欧盟农业环境气候合同方案可接受性调研中，调研覆盖布列塔尼、诺曼底及卢瓦尔河地区的130名农户。调研通过农户工会、牛奶生产商组织、农户协会等中介机构推荐联络自愿参与的农户，随后开展面对面访谈。本次调研分为三个部分：第一部分收集农户与农场的基本特征信息；第二部分探究合同特征对农户采用合同方案意愿的影响，其中特别设置问题要求农户在1至5分量表上作答，评估“与其他土地管理者在景观尺度上共同协商确定环境目标与措施，并获得由参与者共享的统一付款”这一条件，会对其参与意愿产生何种程度的提升或降低作用；第三部分为专门的CE调研模块，向受访者介绍CE的背景、目标与游戏规则，以及合同参数（包含固定参数与不同备选方案间的可变参数）。调研设置了前置问题以帮助受访者评估自身当前的管理要求（个体现状）。当前土壤覆盖时长的计算依据为：受访者申报的永久草地、耕地、多年生作物面积及总利用农业面积（Utilised Agricultural Area, UAA），同时结合耕地裸土平均天数与多年生作物表面的草地覆盖比例。当前树篱密度则依据总UAA及农田内现有多层混交树篱的总米数计算得出。随后农户需完成9轮选择任务，从2种合同备选方案与现状方案中挑选自身偏好的选项。