Data on farmers' acceptance of results-based agri-environmental schemes

Data Brief. 2022 Sep 27:45:108642. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108642. eCollection 2022 Dec.

Abstract

The Data presented in this article contains information on farmers' acceptance of results-based agri-environmental schemes (AES) collected from German farmers in an online survey in spring 2020. Acceptance is measured in the willingness to participate and the intensity of participation in terms of area willing to enroll for the scheme. Personal, farm characteristics and behavioral factors have been considered. We used a between subject design to introduce a social nudge (i.e. information treatment) for one group of participants. The data was collected via the software LimeSurvey. We chose a two-step approach e.g. participants were asked for participation first and then only those who would be willing to participate were asked for the intensity in terms of area willing to enroll. This data is related to the paper Farmers' acceptance of results-based agri-environmental schemes: a German perspective[1].

Keywords: Biodiversity conservation; Contingent Valuation; Online survey; Results-based agri-environmental schemes; Social nudge treatment.