Meraner Manuela, Pölling Bernd, Finger Robert
Agricultural Economics and Policy Group, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Data Brief. 2018 Mar 7;18:9-12. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.03.008. eCollection 2018 Jun.
On-farm non-agricultural diversification is increasingly important for many farmers to stabilize their income and to fulfill societal demand for integrated farming. Especially in peri-urban areas, where the potential for farms' expansion in terms of farm size is limited and public interest in regional products and other services provided at farms is high, the uptake of on-farm non-agricultural diversification is thus an attractive strategy for many farmers. The here presented dataset is based on an online survey conducted in March 2016 with 156 farms located in the Ruhr Metropolitan region (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany). The survey was used to collect information on farms' and farmers' characteristics. More specifically, the dataset includes detailed information on farms' diversification decisions, location, size and general information on farms' production type and structure. Moreover, the dataset contains information on farmers' risk perception and risk preferences (collected using three different elicitation methods) and general information on farmers and households. In addition, farmers' personal assessments on agricultural production in peri-urban settings and information on the use of extension services were collected.
对许多农民来说，农场非农业多样化对于稳定收入和满足社会对综合农业的需求日益重要。特别是在城市周边地区，农场规模扩大的潜力有限，而公众对农场提供的本地产品和其他服务兴趣浓厚，因此，开展农场非农业多样化对许多农民来说是一项颇具吸引力的策略。此处展示的数据集基于2016年3月对鲁尔大都市区（德国北莱茵 - 威斯特法伦州）的156个农场进行的在线调查。该调查用于收集有关农场和农民特征的信息。更具体地说，该数据集包括有关农场多样化决策、位置、规模以及农场生产类型和结构的一般信息的详细信息。此外，该数据集包含有关农民风险认知和风险偏好的信息（使用三种不同的诱导方法收集）以及有关农民和家庭的一般信息。此外，还收集了农民对城市周边地区农业生产的个人评估以及推广服务使用情况的信息。
