Scientific article on forest grazing

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Farmers’ willingness to adopt silvopastoral systems: investigating cattle producers’ compensation claims and attitudes using a contingent valuation approach.

Harold Opdenbosch, doctoral student at SustAinimal Academy, has got his first scientific article published in the journal Agroforestry Systems. He wrote the article together with Helena Hansson, SLU.

The aim of the study was to assess farmers' willingness to introduce silvopastoral systems by reforesting treeless pastures, their compensation claims related to this, and how both of these factors are influenced by their attitudes toward silvopastoral systems.

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Farmers’ willingness to adopt silvopastoral systems: investigating cattle producers’ compensation claims and attitudes using a contingent valuation approach