Stability of farm income: The role of agricultural diversity and agri-environment scheme payments

Harkness, C.; Semenov, Mikhail A.; Senapati, Nimai; Shield, I.; Bishop, Jacob

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2020.103009

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“…Mills et al (2021) have produced a number of social indicators to explain engagement with AES, illustrating that there are a range of complex socio‐economic drivers that influence farmer participation in AES (Boardman et al, 2017; Burton, 2014; Mills et al, 2018). These include financial incentives (Boardman et al, 2017; Coyne et al, 2021; Harkness et al, 2021; Mills et al, 2017). Engagement with previous schemes makes it more likely that farmers will join new or related initiatives (Burton, 2014).…”

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Co‐designing the environmental land management scheme in England: The why, who and how of engaging ‘harder to reach’ stakeholders

Hurley

Lyon

Hall³

et al. 2022

People and Nature

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Agriculture around the world needs to become more environmentally sustainable to limit further environmental degradation and impacts of climate change. Many governments try to achieve this through enrolling farmers in agri‐environment schemes (AES) that encourage them to undertake conservation activities. Studies show that AES can suffer from low uptake, meaning their environmental objectives remain unattained. To succeed for people and nature, policy‐makers are increasingly adopting multi‐actor approaches in the ‘co‐design’ of AES to make them more attractive and inclusive of a full range of stakeholders, including ‘harder to reach’ farmers. To address why some land managers (principally farmers) may be harder to reach in the context of co‐designing England's new Environmental Land Management (ELM) approach, we undertook a quick scoping review of the literature, conducted 23 first‐round and 24 s‐round interviews with key informants, and held a workshop with 11 practitioners. We outline why farming stakeholders may be harder to reach and how policy‐makers can adjust the engagement process to make co‐design more inclusive. Based on the results, we make recommendations that could help policy‐makers to design better, more inclusive AES that would attract greater uptake and increase their chances of success. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Co‐designing the environmental land management scheme in England: The why, who and how of engaging ‘harder to reach’ stakeholders

Hurley

Lyon

Hall³

et al. 2022

People and Nature

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“…There are opportunities for synergisms, where broader climate change adaptation actions enhance biocontrol services. Farmers may seek to diversify agricultural production and engage in agri-ecological practices to stabilise their yields and incomes (e.g., Harkness et al 2021). Crop diversification to spread risk of yield impacts and commodity price fluctuations due to climate change is one way for farm management to become more resilient (Degani et al 2019, Haile et al 2017, Harkness et al 2021.…”

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“…Farmers may seek to diversify agricultural production and engage in agri-ecological practices to stabilise their yields and incomes (e.g., Harkness et al 2021). Crop diversification to spread risk of yield impacts and commodity price fluctuations due to climate change is one way for farm management to become more resilient (Degani et al 2019, Haile et al 2017, Harkness et al 2021. These additional crops could also increase the potential for parasitoid populations to survive and find complementary food and shelter resources, whilst providing other ecosystem services such as soil erosion prevention, soil biota preservation, pollination services and micro-climate stabilisation (Degani et al 2019).…”

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Multiple global change impacts on parasitism and biocontrol services in future agricultural landscapes

Monticelli

Bishop

Desneux

et al. 2021

Advances in Ecological Research

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Parasitoids are a significant mortality factor in the population dynamics of many arthropods involved in key ecological processes such as herbivore-plant and predator-prey interactions.Parasitoids are therefore widely used in biocontrol programs. Global change phenomena influence these natural and anthropocentric roles of parasitoids and here we review the effects of the main drivers and their interplay. Land use intensification modifies landscape structure and elevates agroecosystem loads of fertilizers and pesticides creating risks for parasitism and loss of biocontrol services. Climate change can affect parasitoids directly, affecting physiology and survival, or indirectly via phenological and other effects (plant chemistry, herbivore-induced plant volatiles HIPVs) on their hosts, endosymbionts and plants. Biological invasions have the potential to modify native host-parasitoid systems and elevate risk of novel pest dynamics, requiring restoration of biocontrol. The interplay between these global change drivers may thus exacerbate the overall risk to parasitism in future agricultural landscapes. To make more accurate predictions, future studies could focus on the impact of interacting global change drivers on parasitoids and the biocontrol services they provide. Moreover, host and parasitoid specificity appear to be a key driver in assessing the effects of global change on parasitoids.

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“…The problem of income disparity of farmers relating to other socio-professional groups has been present in the literature for many decades, but also today, it has not lost its topicality [14][15][16]. It is similar to the issue of stability of farmers' income [17][18][19][20][21]. This difficulty is fundamental because farmers' incomes are subject to large fluctuations over time due to the variability of the volume of agricultural production, shaped under the influence of natural factors and the variability of prices of agricultural products and prices of purchased means of production.…”

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Stability and Social Sustainability of Farm Household Income in Poland in 2003–2020

Kata

Leszczyńska

2021

Agriculture

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This article analyses the available income of farmer households in Poland in 2003–2020 in the context of their level, variability, and differentiation. The income situation of farmers was analysed from the intra-sectoral perspective and the inter-sectoral perspective by comparing the average monthly available income per capita of farmer households to the income of employees and total households. The research aimed to assess the stability of farmers’ incomes against the background of comparative groups and to assess their social sustainability. We understand farmers’ income parity relative to other socio-professional groups and a similar level of intra-sectoral differentiation. The source of empirical materials was the cyclical statistics of the Central Statistical Office prepared as part of the Household Budget Surveys, published in the years 2004–2021. It was found that despite a significant increase in the real income of farmers’ households in Poland over the studied years, the income disparity of farmers relative to other socio-occupational groups persisted. However, the income gap of farmers in relation to workers from the non-agricultural sector decreased from 35.1% in 2003 to an average of 15.7% in 2004–2020, which is largely due to the support for agriculture from the CAP funds. Compared to the analysed groups, the income of farmers’ households is characterised by the most significant instability and greater diversification. These results indicate a persistent deficit in the social sustainability of farmers’ household income in Poland.

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Stability of farm income: The role of agricultural diversity and agri-environment scheme payments

Cited by 27 publications

References 55 publications

Co‐designing the environmental land management scheme in England: The why, who and how of engaging ‘harder to reach’ stakeholders

Co‐designing the environmental land management scheme in England: The why, who and how of engaging ‘harder to reach’ stakeholders

Multiple global change impacts on parasitism and biocontrol services in future agricultural landscapes

Stability and Social Sustainability of Farm Household Income in Poland in 2003–2020

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