Encouraging Organic Agriculture: The Effects of Conversion Subsidies

<p>This thesis examines the importance of conversional subsidies in accounting for an increase in organic acreage in the 12 North-Central States in the United States. Monthly time series data that spans from January 2002 to December 2014 was used in the analysis. Empirical evidence suggests that increase in organic acreage is due in part to the availability of conversion subsidies. Without government assistance, most small-scale farmers are not sufficiently motivated to switch to organic production due to the high initial costs involved in transitioning. Further, increased institutional support could facilitate organic adoption and its absence is detrimental to increasing the rate of adopting organic production methods.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis - Open Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Year dc:date.available

2017

Author dc:creator

• Adams Inkoom, Sarah

Contributors dc:contributor

• Evert Van der Sluis

• acreage
• certified farmers
• organic
• subsidies
• transitional cost
• USDA
• Agricultural Economics
• Economics

Licence

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

en

Repository record dc:identifier

https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd/1214

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:openprairie.sdstate.edu:etd-2219