Danish farmers' perception of water quality, nutrient reduction measures and their implementation strategy

TY - GEN

T1 - Danish farmers' perception of water quality, nutrient reduction measures and their implementation strategy

AU - Gachango, Florence Gathoni

AU - Andersen, Laura Mørch

AU - Pedersen, Søren Marcus

N1 - Conference code: 8

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - Implementation of voluntary nutrient reduction technologies among Danish farms is relatively low despite the introduction of a number of incentives on suchtechnologies. With data from 267 farmers, this study analyzed the level of uptake of these technologies and the farmers’ perception of water quality, existing regulatory measures and their implementation strategies. In general, farmers perceived; the water quality to be above average and indicated a strong nonsupport for penalties on non-compliance. Results of two ordered probit models on adoption and perception showed a significant importance of factors such as farm and soil types, farm size and slopes and information availability. These findings give a direction to policy makers and other stakeholders on the need to increase information dissemination on; water quality requirements both at national and regional levels and availability and procedures of financial, technical and institutional support for the existing and future incentives. Ultimately, tailor-made incentives could be designed based on farm structure and physical characteristics so as to improve the pace of adoption of the technologies thereby reducing water pollution from farms substantially.

AB - Implementation of voluntary nutrient reduction technologies among Danish farms is relatively low despite the introduction of a number of incentives on suchtechnologies. With data from 267 farmers, this study analyzed the level of uptake of these technologies and the farmers’ perception of water quality, existing regulatory measures and their implementation strategies. In general, farmers perceived; the water quality to be above average and indicated a strong nonsupport for penalties on non-compliance. Results of two ordered probit models on adoption and perception showed a significant importance of factors such as farm and soil types, farm size and slopes and information availability. These findings give a direction to policy makers and other stakeholders on the need to increase information dissemination on; water quality requirements both at national and regional levels and availability and procedures of financial, technical and institutional support for the existing and future incentives. Ultimately, tailor-made incentives could be designed based on farm structure and physical characteristics so as to improve the pace of adoption of the technologies thereby reducing water pollution from farms substantially.

U2 - 10.2495/WRM150371

DO - 10.2495/WRM150371

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-1-84564-960-9

SP - 435

EP - 446

BT - Water Resources Management VIII

A2 - Brebbia, C.A.

PB - WIT Press

CY - Southampton & Boston

T2 - International Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management

Y2 - 15 June 2015 through 17 June 2015

ER -