Sustainability, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 13(16), P. 8941 - 8941
Published: Aug. 10, 2021
The recognition of the multifunctional role natural areas has resulted in a growing interest sustainable resource management, order to prevent degradation and depletion, ensuring income-generation activities, sustaining culture employment, increasing environmental benefits, such as carbon sequestration, hydrogeological protection, biodiversity enhancement, many others [...]
Language: Английский
Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 144901 - 144901
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
Language: Английский
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Land Use Policy, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 131, P. 106706 - 106706
Published: May 12, 2023
Innovative agri-environmental contracts are increasingly studied in the literature, but their adoption has been relatively slow and geographically scattered. Action-based measures remain predominant policy mechanism across Europe. A three-round Policy Delphi study was conducted with makers, scientific experts, farmers' representatives, NGOs from 15 different European countries, to investigate how under which circumstances novel contractual solutions could be implemented more widely. The expert panel perceived result-based collective elements as most promising. Although considered beneficial several aspects, value chain were less relevant environment. Common Agricultural (CAP) Pillar 2 highlighted by experts key area implement national or regional authorities, 1 eco-schemes, being launched CAP 2023–2027, also a potentially suitable framework for testing implementation. envisaged innovative should adopted governments iterative steps not complete substitute current payment schemes, rather an additional incentive them. Such incremental approach allows innovations capitalise on existing best practices. But it implies risk that marginal fail substantially change behaviour, resulting failure improve environmental conditions.
Language: Английский
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Land Use Policy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 141, P. 107120 - 107120
Published: March 7, 2024
The agri-environment-climate measures of the European Union Common Agricultural Policy are incentives aiming to reduce negative environmental impacts and increase positive effects generated from agriculture. Several criticisms have been addressed their efficiency effectiveness thus, design innovative contract solutions is currently suggested. Among novel contractual solutions, there result-based payments, collective implementation measures, engagement private business actors in value chains, new forms land tenure systems coupled with clauses. Little known about factors at interplay influencing farmers' decision uptake such contracts. present paper investigates acceptability determinants above-mentioned concerning a sample nearly 1900 farmers 10 countries. analysis based on questionnaire built through common research framework. We apply ordered logistic regressions: both proportional partial odds models used. Farmers' preferences interpreted by splitting into 13 individual features which then modeled combination structural characteristics farms sociodemographic behavioral farmers. estimate willingness enroll result-based, collective, value-chain, contracts highlight potentially each type contract.
Language: Английский
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Ecosystem Services, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 55, P. 101430 - 101430
Published: April 28, 2022
Innovative contracts are needed that promote the provision of biodiversity and diverse ecosystem services from land under agricultural production, given mainstream agri-environment-climate measures (AECM) funded by public purse have shown limited effectiveness. Recently, various actors public, private third sectors experimented with implemented innovative incentivise farmers for increased environmental goods alongside goods. Due to their evolving experimental nature, detailed information on characteristics contract design governance context these is lacking, hence preventing them being used more widely. This paper addresses this gap reports findings an analysis 62 cases, based a literature review complemented expert knowledge. Following actor-based typology, we identified payments (PES) as most common type, followed value chain approaches very few tenure contracts. Alternative classifications possible, hybrid showing promising combinations different such basis payment (action-based, results-based) parties (collective or bilateral arrangements). The were They exhibited tailored between (single) producers processors instead generic publicly-funded AECM, stronger bottom-up approach define (mostly action-based) measures, interest use activities marketing purposes. In contrast, PES appeared be respect results-based rewarding performance farmers, providing flexibility autonomy. Future research should focus benefits contracts, e.g. regard costs
Language: Английский
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Global Environmental Change, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 80, P. 102668 - 102668
Published: March 28, 2023
In this study, we used institutional analysis to investigate the design of innovative contracts for agri-environmental and climate schemes. The aim such is better incentivize farmers provision environmental public goods in comparison current 'mainstream' contracts. For analysis, differentiated four contract types: result-based, collective, land tenure, value chain To represent each type selected 19 case examples from six European countries. Cases were identified through a mix methods, combining literature review, web search, expert consultation. After structured data collection based on Ostrom's development (IAD) framework, focused our involved actors their roles governance. Our results highlight great diversity public, private, civil local, regional, national or international governance level, performing one several critical We found that it highly context-dependent which assume certain roles. also discuss how might potentially be impacted by assignment specific actors.
Language: Английский
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Ecosystem Services, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 67, P. 101616 - 101616
Published: March 28, 2024
Linear landscape elements, such as field margins, are agricultural practices whose adoption is supported by agri-environmental climate measures (AECMs). AECMs meant to improve ecological conditions on farms and surrounding areas. The effectiveness of enhance the supply multiple ecosystem services (ESs) still debated knowledge resulting ESs bundles under different stemming from lacking. We aimed at assessing potential that promote implementation linear elements provide high levels analyzing level in geographical contexts. assessed effects (woody, grassy, flower a mix) six (food feed provision, pollination, pest control, regulation, aesthetics, habitat maintenance), combining scenarios spatially explicit modelling approaches. Our results showed positive all regulating cultural ESs. more abundant higher overall supply. However, effect depended types context their implementation. When ES was already baseline situation, changes induced were much lower than when situation initial one or several analyses give insights efficiency environmental targets. approach first step towards general framework for an ex-ante integrated analysis can be used design policies. From practical perspective, our form basis additional payments AECMs. study also confirms relevance EU biodiversity strategy commits ensure least 10% area high-biodiversity features enhanced conditionality eco-schemes reformed Common Policy targeting non-productive biodiversity.
Language: Английский
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Land Use Policy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 143, P. 107188 - 107188
Published: May 13, 2024
Despite ambitious EU initiatives like the European Green Deal and new soil strategy aiming to enhance health protection, effectiveness of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in addressing degradation, biodiversity loss, climate impacts remains limited, especially mountainous vulnerable regions Liguria, Italy. This study evaluates CAP's measures—Enhanced Conditionality (EC), Eco-schemes (ES), Agri-Environmental Schemes (AES)—through a bioeconomic model, assessing potential for policy mixes preventing land abandonment mitigating erosion exacerbated by change. Our analysis reveals that integrating action-based results-based payments within AES, alongside EC novel ES, can significantly conservation efforts prevent environmentally sensitive areas. The introduces nuanced approach design evaluation examining differential include innovative instruments target hobbyist small-scale farmers—a segment often overlooked design. inclusion is shown be crucial landscape preservation enhancing environmental performance agricultural lands. results demonstrate synergies between various CAP critical role fostering flexible approaches stewardship among farmers. advanced mixes, which includes different blend mandatory voluntary with show reduction erosion, showcasing importance stewardship. At opposite, scenarios without interventions, simulations suggest marked increase abandonment, emphasizing measures sustaining use. contributes valuable insights refinement, suggesting more integrated framework necessary meet immediate challenges align EU's overarching sustainability ambitions. research highlights adaptive mechanisms respond complex interplay change, practices, efforts, thereby contributing resilience agriculture its landscapes.
Language: Английский
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Environmental Science & Policy, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 146, P. 123 - 132
Published: May 18, 2023
In response to the challenges posed by fragmentation of habitats and loss native biodiversity, climate change adaptation mitigation, diverse agri-environmental measures have been initiated across European Union (EU) with aim fostering agricultural ecosystem service delivery. Previous studies adopting a governance perspective identified various determinants successful measures. However, explanatory value these is limited as causal processes through which context scheme design affect implementation success remain grey -boxed. This article uses mechanism-based approach uncover that underlie actions interactions within arrangements provides insights into role interplay between plays in The empirical focus collective Netherlands. opening box mechanisms link contextual their results, paper applies theory building process tracing methods. Results show case explained social learning trust-building mechanisms. We argue EU domestic decision-makers aiming improve contribution mitigation must consider conditions facilitate increased cooperation stakeholders and, ultimately,
Language: Английский
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Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 75(1), P. 44 - 83
Published: Dec. 19, 2023
Abstract Ensuring that farmers' ex ante preferences are accounted for is crucial the design of effective agri‐environmental contracts. We present a systematic review 127 discrete choice experiment (DCE) studies with respect to DCE evaluate two central features behaviour: (1) their willingness accept land use prescriptions, such as fertiliser use, application pesticides, restrictions on cropping, livestock management, integration silvopasture, maintaining soil health or water restrictions; and (2) responses variations in incentive commitment criteria, reward schemes, monitoring regimes, technical assistance, flexibility agreements, administrative burden collaborative implementation. Our analysis considers how these different elements interlinked applied experiments simulate decision‐making processes. examine recent methodological improvements explaining farmer behaviour, including accommodation preference heterogeneity, combining (enrolment) continuous decisions, incorporation sense identity. DCEs have been policy instruments inform European Common Agricultural Policy schemes outside EU. The results this may be useful informing future programmes. database underpinning literature help peer scientists (a) compare, validate triangulate own findings other experimental approaches, (b) previous willingness‐to‐accept (WTA) measures priors study design, (c) identify research gaps regarding measures.
Language: Английский
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Climatic Change, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 177(8)
Published: Aug. 1, 2024
Abstract Removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is a major challenge for today’s society. A great source of potential gas sequestration beneath our feet: agricultural soil. By accumulating soil organic carbon in soil, farmers can sequester dioxide and simultaneously reach soils more resilient to extreme weather events. To encourage build up humus thus carbon, some programmes have been developed by non-governmental organisations. In this regard, action-based reward systems are on their way challenging established results-based approaches. Against background, we analyse how approaches, as well other crucial features programmes, affect farmers’ willingness participate programme. We conducted Discrete-Choice-Experiment analysed it using mixed logit model. The results show that statistically significant preference shorter programme durations, higher incentives, an annual government-funded payment. More specifically, farmer participation twice likely if formation rewarded action rather than results. willingness-to-accept calculation indicates would cost funding agency about €20 per ton sequestered Above all, with approach payments increase participate. Our contribute development targeted policies soils.
Language: Английский
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