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1 December 2014 Conservation of Biodiversity and Its Value in Agricultural Products
Yabe Mitsuyasu, Hayashi Takashi, Nishimura Bunei, Sun Binhong
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Abstract

Biodiversity is one of the important aspects of Agricultural Heritage Systems and some consumers might be willing to pay a higher price for agricultural commodities that are produced in a way that conserves biodiversity. If so, whether can market-oriented policies to promote adding the value of biodiversity to agricultural products be used to conserve biodiversity? Our study focuses on consumer reactions to “life brand” product, which is labeled as “Stork-raising rice” in Toyooka City in Japan, produced environmentally-friendly agricultural practices for the revival of extinct stork. Using data of choice experiment and Latent Segment model, we analyzed whether these agricultural products can achieve higher market prices. The results showed that consumer, who had knowledge that stork populations had been revived because of changes in agricultural practice, are willing to buy expensive rice that improve biodiversity conservation for stork. However, consumers who bought this rice because of a preference for reduced-pesticide or organic food, without knowledge of revived stork history, were not willing to do so. The majority of agricultural product consumers in Japan are this type of consumer. Thus, the promotion of biodiversity conservation by only “life brand” agricultural products is not enough. Therefore, government support and public activities are indispensable for biodiversity conservation.

Yabe Mitsuyasu, Hayashi Takashi, Nishimura Bunei, and Sun Binhong "Conservation of Biodiversity and Its Value in Agricultural Products," Journal of Resources and Ecology 5(4), 291-300, (1 December 2014). https://doi.org/10.5814/j.issn.1674-764x.2014.04.002
Received: 17 September 2014; Accepted: 19 November 2014; Published: 1 December 2014
KEYWORDS
agricultural products
biodiversity
conservation
Stork-raising rice
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