Discrete choice experiments (DCE) have been in-creasingly applied to assess farmers' preferences for alternative designs of hypothetical agri-environmental schemes. We extend the DCE approach by asking farmers not only to choose among alternative conservation contracts but also to choose the...

While farmers in rural areas of northern Ghana find it difficult to obtain sufficient organic soil amendments to keep their soil healthy, there is not enough demand for city compost factories attempting to clean cities of organic solid waste to sustain the composting rate at waste-clearing...

Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht, inwiefern Discrete Choice Experimente (DCE) in der landwirtschaftlichen Produktionsökonomie eingesetzt werden können, um das Entscheidungsverhalten von Landwirten zu prognostizieren. Um diese Fragestellung zu beantworten, werden mehrere DCE mit...

Concentration on elite breeding lines has endangered a number of traditional dairy breeds. Although several of those breeds are known for superior functional traits such as robustness, they are increasingly replaced by Holstein cows. A discrete choice experiment with 159 breeders revealed the...