Factors affecting Willingness to Accept compensation for crops conversion programs: a farm level study in Tunisia

Lamia Soltani (), Aymen Frija () and Mohamed salah Matoussi ()
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Lamia Soltani: Higher School of Digital Economy, Manouba university, Tunisia
Aymen Frija: Social Economics and policy Research program
Mohamed salah Matoussi: Professor in the faculty of Economics Sciences and Management of Tunis

Economics Bulletin, 2018, vol. 38, issue 1, 383-392

Abstract: Offering a case study of Northeast of Tunisia, this study identifies socio-economic factors that affect the willingness to accept compensation for the conversion of their current cropping patterns towards more water-saving ones.A survey questionnaire was used for collecting data. A logistic regression model was used to analyze the data.Results showed that a majority of the farmers self-identified as having accepted a compensation for crops conversion program. Empirical results of the logistic regression model showed that eight factors surveyed, age, farm size, cereal area, parcel number, cattle fattening activity, groundwater salinity, owned area, and rental area were significantly related to a willingness to accept compensation for crops conversion programs.

Keywords: Groundwater; crops conversion programs; willingness to accept (WTA); Aquifer; Tunisia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 Q0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-02-27
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