NDLI: Evaluation of agricultural ecosystem services in fallowing land based on farmers’ participation and model simulation

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Author	Liu, Yen Lan Chang, Kang tsung Stoorvogel, Jetse Verburg, Peter Sun, Chin Hong
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Fallowing with green fertilizer can benefit agricultural ecosystem services (AES). Farmers in Taiwan do not implement fallow practices and plant green fertilizer because the current subsidy level (46,000 NT $ per ha) is too low to manage fallowing. This paper defines the objective of government agriculture policy or the farmer’s objective as maximization of farm productivity, approximated to the value of social welfare and AES. Farms, which do not follow proper fallowing practices, often have poorly maintained fallow land or left farmland abandoned. This results in negative environmental consequences such as cutworm infestations in abandoned land, which in turn can affect crops in adjacent farmlands. The objectives of this study are twofold. First, it determines the proper fallowing subsidy based on the concept of payment for ecosystem services to entice more farmers to participate in fallowing. Second, it simulates the benefit of planting green manure in fallow land to the supply of AES based on the rate of farmers who are willing to participate in fallow land practices and essential parameters that can affect soil fertility change. The approach involves a series of interviews and a developed empirical model. The value of AES when the rate of farmer participation is 100% represents a 1.5% increase in AES (448,317,000 NT$ ) over the value at the current participation rate of 14%. This study further concludes that the appropriate fallowing subsidy has a large positive impact on AES and social welfare (e.g., benefit from food and biofuel supplies) and is seen as a basis of ecological governance for sustainable agro-ecosystems.
Starting Page	301
Ending Page	310
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	16112490
Journal	Paddy and Water Environment
Volume Number	10
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	16112504
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Japan
Publisher Date	2011-08-10
Publisher Place	Japan
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Agricultural ecological services Payment for ecological services Fallow Soil fertility Taiwan Sustainable agriculture policy Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution Soil Science & Conservation Hydrogeology Geoecology/Natural Processes Ecotoxicology Agriculture
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Environmental Engineering Water Science and Technology Agronomy and Crop Science

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