Bjørnåvold, A, David, M, Mermet-Bijon, V et al. (4 more authors) (2023) To tax or to ban? A discrete choice experiment to elicit public preferences for phasing out glyphosate use in agriculture. PLoS One, 18 (3). e0283131. ISSN 1932-6203
Abstract
In 2023, the European Union will vote on the reauthorization of glyphosate use, renewed in 2017 despite concern on impacts on the environment and public health. A ban is supported by several Member States but rejected by most farmers. What are citizens’ preferences to phase out glyphosate? To assess whether taxation could be an alternative to a ban, we conducted a discrete choice experiment in five European countries. Our results reveal that the general public is strongly willing to pay for a reduction in glyphosate use. However, while 75.5% of respondents stated to support a ban in the pre-experimental survey, experimental results reveal that in 73.35% of cases, earmarked taxation schemes are preferred when they lead to a strong reduction in glyphosate use for an increase in food price lower than that induced by a ban. When glyphosate reduction is balanced against its costs, a tax may be preferred.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 Bjørnåvold et al. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Taxes; Surveys and Questionnaires; Glycine; Agriculture; Choice Behavior |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) > Management Division Decision Research (LUBS) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 29 Mar 2023 11:18 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 23:18 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Public Library of Science |
Identification Number: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0283131 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:197793 |