Understanding farmers’ land use behaviour is a pre-requisite for the design of effective policies aiming at protecting and enhancing biodiversity in agriculture. The aim of the present paper is to develop a typology of Swiss farmers’ land use strategies in terms of agricultural production and biodiversity conservation. We adopt for that purpose a comprehensive perspective encompassing both the Ecological Focus Area (EFA) and the non-EFA. We use K-means cluster analysis to identify the farm types. We consider four clustering variables, namely the agricultural production intensity, the extent of farm’s participation in agri-environmental schemes for biodiversity conservation and the impact of farm agricultural practices on the organismal biodiversity of the EFA and non-EFA. Our results reveal that land use strategies are not only heterogeneous but also complex, going beyond the classical myopic dichotomy of low versus high EFA share.
Jan P., Zimmert F., Dux D.
Farm-level land use strategies in terms of agricultural production and biodiversity conservation in Switzerland.
In: Joint Conference of the Slovenian Association of Agricultural Economists (DAES) and the Austrian Association of Agricultural Economists (ÖGA). 23. September, Ljubljana - Biotechnical Faculty of the University of Ljubljana. 2022.
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