Our paper assesses the technical and economic effects of adopting environmental standards aimed at favouring biodiversity on wheat production. We consider two standards with different levels of environmental stringency. We use data on French wheat production at the plot level from the period 2014–2020. We implement an endogenous switching regression model taking into account two sources of endogeneity, environmental standards adoption and inputs quantity use. Our results indicate that adopting the more stringent standard slightly decreases wheat yield and quality. In contrast, it induces a low increase in wheat price. The price premium of the more stringent environmental standard merely compensates for the negative effect of the standard’s adoption on quality.

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生物多样性标准对小麦生产的技术和经济影响


我们的论文评估了采用旨在有利于生物多样性的环境标准对小麦生产的技术和经济影响。我们考虑两个具有不同环境严格程度的标准。我们使用了 2014-2020 年期间法国小麦产量的数据。我们实施了内生性转换回归模型，同时考虑了内生性的两个来源，即环境标准的采用和投入数量的使用。我们的结果表明，采用更严格的标准会略微降低小麦产量和质量。相反，它导致小麦价格的低位上涨。更严格的环境标准的价格溢价只是补偿了该标准采用对质量的负面影响。