Decision-making by farmers regarding ecosystem services: Factors affecting soil conservation efforts in Costa Rica

Vignola, Raffaele; Koellner, Thomas; Scholz, Roland; McDaniels, Timothy L.

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2010.03.003

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“…Or they can be anthropogenic (Raymond et al, 2013), such as land use, farming practices, and the increasing "artificialization" of soils (for example during the construction of shopping malls or vast areas of parking), in which case they can be schematized by another arrow emanating from the human side of the diagram. As in the case of human influences on what constitutes soil services, this arrow indicates that human societies are deciding what types of pressure they are willing to exert on the soil natural capital, and how they are willing to make it evolve, positively or negatively (Vignola et al, 2010;Murray-Rust et al, 2011;Li et al, 2014).…”

Section: From Properties and Processes To Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Soil “Ecosystem” Services and Natural Capital: Critical Appraisal of Research on Uncertain Ground

Baveye

Gowdy

2016

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Section: From Properties and Processes To Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Soil “Ecosystem” Services and Natural Capital: Critical Appraisal of Research on Uncertain Ground

Baveye

Gowdy

2016

Front. Environ. Sci.

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168

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“…Globally, many countries have dismantled or significant reduced their extension programs (Chang, 2009), yet the need for such support (especially for smallholder farmers facing the impacts of climate change) is greater than ever (Porter et al, 2014). Farmer field schools and effective extension programs are needed to foster information exchange on EbA practices from technical institutions to producers and viceversa as well as among smallholders (Braun and Duveskog, 2011;Vignola et al, 2010). Greater investment in extension services is urgently needed to ensure that smallholder farmers have access to best available information on adaption strategies and can make informed decisions about their farming systems and actually increase adoption rates of EbA practices (Vignola et al, 2010).…”

Section: What Is Needed To Scale Up the Use Of Eba Practices In Smallmentioning

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Ecosystem-based adaptation for smallholder farmers: Definitions, opportunities and constraints

Vignola

Harvey

Bautista-Solís

et al. 2015

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

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Despite the growing interest in Ecosystem-based Adaptation, there has been little discussion of how this approach could be used to help smallholder farmers adapt to climate change, while ensuring the continued provision of ecosystem services on which farming depends. Here we provide a framework for identifying which agricultural practices could be considered 'Ecosystem-based Adaptation' practices, and highlight the opportunities and constraints for using these practices to help smallholder farmers adapt to climate change. We argue that these practices are (a) based on the conservation, restoration or management of biodiversity, ecosystem processes or services, and (b) improve the ability of crops and livestock to maintain crop yields under climate change and/or by buffering biophysical impacts of extreme weather events or increased temperatures. To be appropriate for smallholder farmers, these practices must also help increase their food security, increase or diversify their sources of income generation, take advantage of local or traditional knowledge, be based on local inputs, and have low implementation and labor costs. To illustrate the application of this definition, we provide some examples from smallholders' coffee management practices in Mesoamerica. We also highlight three key obstacles that currently constrain the use of Ecosystem-based Adaptation practices (i) the need for greater understanding of their effectiveness and the factors that drive their adoption, (ii) the development supportive and integrated agriculture and climate change policies that specifically promote them as part of a broader agricultural adaptation program; and (iii) the establishment and maintaining strong and innovative extension programs for smallholder farmers. Our framework is an important starting point for identifying which Ecosystem-based Adaptation practices are appropriate for smallholder farmers and merit attention in international and national adaptation efforts. (Résumé d'auteur

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“…Lai and Kreuter [86] found similar responses in the Hill Country of Texas in the U.S., where perceptions of change affected an individual's desires to conserve or retain their properties, depending on their level of place attachment. Perception of change and its impacts may also drive changes in land-use and land-management practices in response to perceived degradation, as demonstrated by studies of stakeholders in Costa Rica [87], Uganda [88], and Ethiopia [89]. These studies generally used surveys and interviews to understand the link between landscape change and stakeholder responses within specific regions, without quantitatively assessing intermediate effects on perception of landscape values.…”

Section: Describing Land Change Processesmentioning

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Integrating Spatially Explicit Representations of Landscape Perceptions into Land Change Research

Dorning

Berkel

Semmens

2017

Curr Landscape Ecol Rep

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Purpose of Review Human perceptions of the landscape can influence land-use and land-management decisions. Recognizing the diversity of landscape perceptions across space and time is essential to understanding land change processes and emergent landscape patterns. We summarize the role of landscape perceptions in the land change process, demonstrate advances in quantifying and mapping landscape perceptions, and describe how these spatially explicit techniques have and may benefit land change research. Recent Findings Mapping landscape perceptions is becoming increasingly common, particularly in research focused on quantifying ecosystem services provision. Spatial representations of landscape perceptions, often measured in terms of landscape values and functions, provide an avenue for matching social and environmental data in land change studies. Integrating these data can provide new insights into land change processes, contribute to landscape planning strategies, and guide the design and implementation of land change models. Summary Challenges remain in creating spatial representations of human perceptions. Maps must be accompanied by descriptions of whose perceptions are being represented and the validity and uncertainty of those representations across space. With these considerations, rapid advancements in mapping landscape perceptions hold great promise for improving representation of human dimensions in landscape ecology and land change research.

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Decision-making by farmers regarding ecosystem services: Factors affecting soil conservation efforts in Costa Rica

Cited by 94 publications

References 44 publications

Soil “Ecosystem” Services and Natural Capital: Critical Appraisal of Research on Uncertain Ground

Soil “Ecosystem” Services and Natural Capital: Critical Appraisal of Research on Uncertain Ground

Ecosystem-based adaptation for smallholder farmers: Definitions, opportunities and constraints

Integrating Spatially Explicit Representations of Landscape Perceptions into Land Change Research

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