Claassen, Roger; Duquette, Eric; Horowitz, John; Kohei, Ueda - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2014
Conservation payments lead to improvement in environmental quality only if farmers and ranchers who receive them adopt … conservation practices that would not have been adopted without the payment. When a voluntary payment causes a change in practice … number of common conservation practices that are frequently supported by existing conservation programs. We find that the …