Food for thought - examining farmers' willingness to engage in conservation stewardship around a protected area in central India

Although protected areas (PAs) have long been considered a successful conservation strategy, more recent research has highlighted their ecological and sociological limitations. The extant PA network is constrained by land availability and exacerbates cultural, political, and social conflicts over ac...

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Autores principales:	Mahi Puri, Elizabeth F. Pienaar, Krithi K. Karanth, Bette A. Loiselle
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Publicado:	Resilience Alliance 2021
Materias:	agroforestry incentives land sharing private land stated preference choice experiment wildlife conservation Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:088e8bb9973b4c708bc7c0fc4977e4492021-11-15T16:40:18ZFood for thought - examining farmers' willingness to engage in conservation stewardship around a protected area in central India1708-308710.5751/ES-12544-260246https://doaj.org/article/088e8bb9973b4c708bc7c0fc4977e4492021-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol26/iss2/art46/https://doaj.org/toc/1708-3087Although protected areas (PAs) have long been considered a successful conservation strategy, more recent research has highlighted their ecological and sociological limitations. The extant PA network is constrained by land availability and exacerbates cultural, political, and social conflicts over access to resources. Consequently, the importance of private lands in playing a complementary role in conservation is being widely recognized. Voluntary conservation programs that encourage private landowners to adopt biodiversity-friendly agricultural practices have emerged worldwide. Landowners' willingness to participate in these programs is critical to attaining landscape-level biodiversity conservation. We adopted a multidisciplinary approach, combining economic theory of rational choice and social choice theory to explain decision making. Using a stated preference choice experiment method, we examined the role of program design and influence of demographic, economic, and socio-psychological variables on landowners' willingness to enroll in voluntary, incentive-based agroforestry programs. In 2018-2019, we surveyed 602 landowners in the buffer area of Pench Tiger Reserve, India. Landowners' willingness to engage in agroforestry depended on the amount of land to be enrolled, program duration, and incentive amount. Landowners' socio-economic characteristics, attitudes, self-efficacy, and social norms also influenced their willingness to participate. On average, landowners required Rs. 66,000 (ca. $940 USD) per acre per year to modify their land use and adopt agroforestry. Our study demonstrates that integrating voluntary agroforestry programs into India's rural development policy may allow biodiversity conservation to be balanced with agricultural productivity in buffer areas surrounding PAs. We call for a new approach that recognizes farmers as stakeholders in conservation and in creating resilient landscapes that support biodiversity and preserve livelihoods.Mahi PuriElizabeth F. PienaarKrithi K. KaranthBette A. LoiselleResilience Alliancearticleagroforestryincentivesland sharingprivate landstated preference choice experimentwildlife conservationBiology (General)QH301-705.5EcologyQH540-549.5ENEcology and Society, Vol 26, Iss 2, p 46 (2021)
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topic	agroforestry incentives land sharing private land stated preference choice experiment wildlife conservation Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5
spellingShingle	agroforestry incentives land sharing private land stated preference choice experiment wildlife conservation Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5 Mahi Puri Elizabeth F. Pienaar Krithi K. Karanth Bette A. Loiselle Food for thought - examining farmers' willingness to engage in conservation stewardship around a protected area in central India
description	Although protected areas (PAs) have long been considered a successful conservation strategy, more recent research has highlighted their ecological and sociological limitations. The extant PA network is constrained by land availability and exacerbates cultural, political, and social conflicts over access to resources. Consequently, the importance of private lands in playing a complementary role in conservation is being widely recognized. Voluntary conservation programs that encourage private landowners to adopt biodiversity-friendly agricultural practices have emerged worldwide. Landowners' willingness to participate in these programs is critical to attaining landscape-level biodiversity conservation. We adopted a multidisciplinary approach, combining economic theory of rational choice and social choice theory to explain decision making. Using a stated preference choice experiment method, we examined the role of program design and influence of demographic, economic, and socio-psychological variables on landowners' willingness to enroll in voluntary, incentive-based agroforestry programs. In 2018-2019, we surveyed 602 landowners in the buffer area of Pench Tiger Reserve, India. Landowners' willingness to engage in agroforestry depended on the amount of land to be enrolled, program duration, and incentive amount. Landowners' socio-economic characteristics, attitudes, self-efficacy, and social norms also influenced their willingness to participate. On average, landowners required Rs. 66,000 (ca. $940 USD) per acre per year to modify their land use and adopt agroforestry. Our study demonstrates that integrating voluntary agroforestry programs into India's rural development policy may allow biodiversity conservation to be balanced with agricultural productivity in buffer areas surrounding PAs. We call for a new approach that recognizes farmers as stakeholders in conservation and in creating resilient landscapes that support biodiversity and preserve livelihoods.
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title	Food for thought - examining farmers' willingness to engage in conservation stewardship around a protected area in central India
title_short	Food for thought - examining farmers' willingness to engage in conservation stewardship around a protected area in central India
title_full	Food for thought - examining farmers' willingness to engage in conservation stewardship around a protected area in central India
title_fullStr	Food for thought - examining farmers' willingness to engage in conservation stewardship around a protected area in central India
title_full_unstemmed	Food for thought - examining farmers' willingness to engage in conservation stewardship around a protected area in central India
title_sort	food for thought - examining farmers' willingness to engage in conservation stewardship around a protected area in central india
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Food for thought - examining farmers' willingness to engage in conservation stewardship around a protected area in central India

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