DIS-BIO - Would social and spatial incentives be sufficient to trigger the conversion to and maintenance of organic agriculture?

OBJECTIVES

Even though the urgency of the situation is obvious, commitments vary for economic reasons (agricultural conversion costs, the price of organic products, etc.), technical reasons (soil quality, acquisition of new techniques, etc.) and social reasons (interaction structures, standards, etc.).

Faced with these challenges, we are seeing the emergence of new forms of regulation (social networks, voluntary approaches, etc.), alongside more economic incentives (taxes or subsidies).

This project focuses on non-monetary incentives as levers for promoting environmentally-friendly production methods such as organic argiculture (OA).

The impact of social, environmental, spatial and economic levers will be studied, as well as the influence of education, training and access to technical and scientific information on the willingness to convert to OA and the maintenance of OA. Playing the role of moderator in these impacts, the level of trust in institutions will also be analyzed and measured.

LThe aim of the work is to identify relevant incentives and to produce a booklet of recommendations for decision-makers on combinations of non-monetary incentives that could accompany or replace monetary incentives to encourage conversion to and maintenance of OA.

RESOURCES

The project mobilizes disciplines such as environmental economics, experimental economics and systems agronomy. In addition to their networks and local expertise, the partners contribute additional skills, in particular, in economics, the sociology of behavior and that of public action, and history.

Participants

INRAE units

• BETA, Strasbourg
• LAE, Colmar
• LAE, Nancy

Partners

• Agence Bio
• Bio en Grand-Est (FNAB)
• CNRS
• Grand Est Regional Chamber of Agriculture
• Univ. Paris Nanterre
• Univ. Strasbourg & IUT R. Schuman
• Univ. Reims
• Univ. Paris Panthéon-Assas