Abstract
This research aims to evaluate farmers’ attitudes to the pricing of natural resources, mainly water and soil resources, in GAP-Şanlıurfa-Turkey. It will also define farmers’ willingness to accept pricing for the sustainability of resources and explore the potential factors that contribute to such willingness. The data comes from a sample of 1105 farmers in Şanlıurfa who were chosen by a simple random sampling method and participants were interviewed face to face by questionnaires. The logistic regression is used for analysis. The results indicate that 40% of the farmers have a positive attitude to the pricing of resources for protection and sustainability. The most affecting factors are the location of the farmers, the number of agricultural manpower at the household, land amount, ownership status, income derived from agriculture, and livestock. The average willingness-to-pay amount was calculated in USD as $48.8/ha. Where public finance is insufficient to meet the demands, the willingness-to-pay amount may be used in co-investments. In this way, both the financing problem can be overcome and the ownership rate of the users can be increased. Therefore, the results could be helpful for decision- and policy-makers to develop strategies for the sustainability of resources for GAP-Turkey and areas with similar socioeconomic characteristics.
Highlights
Every individual and society live in a natural environment that can be defined as the environment in which they live and interact with each other [1] and which consists of living and nonliving assets that affect the development, prosperity, and economy of individuals and countries.The economic activities of individuals affect the ecology, environment, and natural resources, and are in turn affected by them [2]
Many studies are indicating the existence of increasing demand and pressure on ecology, environment, and natural resources in terms of quantity and quality based on many factors but mostly due to population growth rate, urbanization, industrialization, expanding agricultural irrigation, and climate change, all of which affect the socioeconomic structure of societies [3,4,5,6,7,8]
It is expected that regarding the age, education level, the number of households, agricultural manpower, farming experience, income derived from agriculture, livestock, property ownership status, agricultural credit usage, and the agricultural land amount variables of the farmers’ increase, the attitudes of the farmers both towards the willingness to accept and willingness to pay more likely will increase for the pricing of natural resources for sustainability
Summary
Every individual and society live in a natural environment that can be defined as the environment in which they live and interact with each other [1] and which consists of living and nonliving assets that affect the development, prosperity, and economy of individuals and countries.The economic activities of individuals affect the ecology, environment, and natural resources, and are in turn affected by them [2]. Many studies are indicating the existence of increasing demand and pressure on ecology, environment, and natural resources in terms of quantity and quality based on many factors but mostly due to population growth rate, urbanization, industrialization, expanding agricultural irrigation, and climate change, all of which affect the socioeconomic structure of societies [3,4,5,6,7,8]. These pressures, which are mainly caused by human activities, generally occur on soil and water resources [2,9] and creates difficulties for food supply [10] where sources are main factors, at least, for food security. There is a need for best management practices (BMPs) in the researched area to adopt the farmers to BMPs by the state and meet the demands for the sustainability of agriculture wherein the obligation of pricing will emerge
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