Abstract:
To limit global warming, advocacy has increased in support
of lowering greenhouse gas emissions. For instance, in agriculture, the use of compost and bio-fertilizer is increasingly
promoted. Therefore, this paper aims at investigating how
sustainable agricultural policies may influence land use and
farm income in the context of global climatic change. Thus,
a mathematical programming model with a representative
risk-neutral and profit-maximizing economic agent is
applied, using survey data on 423 farmers in Togo, a West
African country. The findings indicate that a combination of
a subsidy and a credit policy appear to be the best incentive
to promote the adoption of sustainable practices and to
increase farm income. Therefore, a combination of subsidy
and credit policy should be implemented to foster the adoption of sustainable practices and improve farmers' welfare.
