Farmer perceptions of bird conservation and farming management at a catchment level

Guillem, Eleonore; Barnes, Andrew P.

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.09.002

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“…Farmers, on the whole, respond more to financial incentives when aiming to meet ecological goals (Wilson and Hart 2000;Siebert et al 2006;Guillem and Barnes 2013). This creates barriers for translating SI to enable change at the farm level, and indeed, may simply be a licence to produce regardless of wider sustainability effects (Tomlinson 2013;Maye and Kirwan 2013;Fish et al 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

Can’t get there from here: attainable distance, sustainable intensification and full-scale technical potential

Barnes¹

2016

Reg Environ Change

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Full-scale technical potential provides a clear horizon for agricultural technology policy to meet the dual and urgent challenge of meeting food security and minimising the effects of climate change. A common stated goal is to double food production by 2050 to meet the needs of 9 billion people. The frontier of full-scale technical potential embodies this goal and provides a panacea for policy makers. However, the pathway between the present adoption of technologies towards this frontier is paved with some hazards which may be insurmountable. We develop a conceptual framework based on adoption levels of technology. The key criteria between current and potential adoption of technologies is the role of enablers, that is interventions which create changes in structural, distributional, technical, social and behavioural cultures. Policy must find optimal mixtures of regulation and voluntary mechanisms to fully encourage uptake of technologies and shift current adoption to meet full-scale technical potential. A range of technologies can be aligned with sustainable intensification and are examined in terms of this enabler framework. Further examination of the framework allows us to conclude that full-scale technical potential will never be achieved due to the stochastic nature of agricultural production, the diversity of motivations and institutional structures operating within food supply chains, as well as unbalanced cost-effectiveness criteria. We argue that sustainable intensification may provide a direction of travel for attaining food security but its poor conception, limited acceptability and understanding amongst the communities of interest lead to over-optimism in determining the journey to this final destination.

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Can’t get there from here: attainable distance, sustainable intensification and full-scale technical potential

Barnes¹

2016

Reg Environ Change

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“…These studies include a broad range of topics, including deforestation restrictions (SCHMIDT; MCDERMOTT, 2015), forest restoration (GONÇALVES; GOMES, 2014), agroenvironmental measures (GUILLEM; BARNES, 2013;SCHROEDER, 2011), participation in environmental governance (ATARI et al, 2009;DAVIES;HODGE, 2006;DEFRANCESCO et al, 2008;GREINER;GREGG, 2011) and maintenance of ecosystem services (POPPENBORG; KOELLNER, 2013;VIGNOLA et al, 2010). These studies observe various factors that influence the rate and extent of the adoption of conservation practices by rural producers, including (1) economic and financial factors (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These observations suggest that the issue of knowledge dissemination to land owners and the correspondent lack of information in this process directly affect decision-making processes of rural producers with respect to adopting conservation practices (GUILLEM;BARNES, 2013). This limitation greatly complicates effective compliance with environmental policies, and directly interferes with the performance of deforestation control instruments.…”

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Regularization of Legal Reserve Debts: Perceptions of Rural Producers in the State of Pará and Mato Grosso in Brazil

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The native vegetation on private land is considered a key component in the supply of ecosystem services, so the Forest Code establishes the Legal Reserve. While some studies have showed that non-compliance is common, so far no study has analyzed the willingness of producers to settle this liability. This study aimed to investigate in a exploratory ways the stated preferences and the motivating factors of producers in the settlement of liabilities and use of Legal Reserve surpluses. With this purpose this study has collected primary data through structured face-to-face interviews with 77 producers in 17 municipalities in the states of Pará and Mato Grosso. The results showed four available classes of producers in regulation (positive, inaccurate, inaccurate and negative) and suggest that age, income and the type of agricultural activity are important factors in the decision-making process of farmers in relation to environmental regularization of their legal reserves.

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“…European agricultural policy plays a vital role in shaping landscape management within these ecosystems [12,21]. There are increasing concerns that EU agricultural policy and a demand for increased food production will put added pressure on farmland biodiversity [22].…”

Section: Reasons For Decline In European Farmland Birdsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Public concern in relation to potential environmental issues associated with intensification of agriculture has encouraged policy-makers to promote agricultural policies that are more ecologically and environmentally beneficial [12,22]. Since 1985, reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) have included the provision of agri-environment incentives, originally aimed at conserving biodiversity and reducing overproduction [23].…”

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Opportunities within the Revised EU Common Agricultural Policy to Address the Decline of Farmland Birds: An Irish Perspective

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Buckley

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Abstract:The loss of global biological diversity continues despite on-going conservation efforts. Agriculture is the major terrestrial land use in Europe and any conservation efforts to protect biological diversity must address sustainable use of these food production systems. Using Ireland, within the European Union policy framework, as an example, the declines in farmland birds are discussed. The opportunities afforded to farmland bird conservation as a result of the recent reform to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) are outlined. The potential for revised and refined CAP, specifically agri-environment schemes, to deliver benefits for biodiversity and for farmland bird species within Irish agricultural ecosystems is explored. Despite all the efforts to date and the significant resources invested in implementing agri-environment measures and schemes, few attempts have been made to collect monitoring and surveillance data with which to quantitatively assess the effectiveness of schemes, and measures that are designed to assist in the recovery of farmland biodiversity, including bird species, in Ireland.

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Farmer perceptions of bird conservation and farming management at a catchment level

Cited by 34 publications

References 79 publications

Can’t get there from here: attainable distance, sustainable intensification and full-scale technical potential

Can’t get there from here: attainable distance, sustainable intensification and full-scale technical potential

Regularization of Legal Reserve Debts: Perceptions of Rural Producers in the State of Pará and Mato Grosso in Brazil

Opportunities within the Revised EU Common Agricultural Policy to Address the Decline of Farmland Birds: An Irish Perspective

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