How about the role of farmers and of pragmatic approaches when aiming for sustainable development by 2030?

Bouma, J.

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“…In this regard, it might be worth while to consider that numerous studies deal with the communication of policy and science concepts in order to influence farmer decisions (e.g. Creissen & Lamichhane, 2024;Dessart et al, 2019;Prost et al, 2023), whereas research about how to engage practitioners in policy development is underrepresented (Bouma, 2022;Busse et al, 2023;Höhler et al, 2024;Zindler et al, 2023). Based on these insights, we may put forward recommendations for future studies.…”

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Do we speak one language on the way to sustainable soil management in Europe? A terminology check via an EU‐wide survey

Weninger,

Ramler,

Bondi

et al. 2024

European J Soil Science

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European soils are under increasing pressure, making it difficult to maintain the provision of soil ecosystem services (SESs). A better understanding of soil processes is needed to counteract soil threats (STs) and to promote sustainable soil management. The EJP SOIL programme of the EU provides a framework for the necessary research. However, different definitions of soil‐related terms potentially lead to varied understandings of concepts. Furthermore, there are numerous indicators available to quantify STs or SESs. As unclear communication is a key barrier that hinders the implementation of research results into practice, this study aimed to answer the question about whether the terminology of large‐scale initiatives is adequately understood within the soil‐science community and non‐research stakeholders. An online questionnaire was used to provide definitions for 33 soil‐related terms in both scientific and plain language, as well as indicators for seven SESs and 11 STs. Participants were asked to rate their agreement with the definitions and indicators on a seven‐grade Likert scale. The level of agreement was calculated as the percentage of ratings above 4, the neutral position. The survey was available from June to September 2023 and was distributed by a snowball approach. More than 260 stakeholders assessed the survey; 70% of respondents were researchers, and 15% were practitioners. Mean agreement levels for the definitions and indicators were generally high, at 85% and 78% respectively. However, it was apparent that the lowest agreement was found for terms that are relatively new, such as Ecosystem Services and Bundle, or unfamiliar for certain subgroups, such as ecological terms for stakeholders working at the farm scale. Due to their distinct majority, the results of this study primarily reflect the opinions of scientists. Thus, broad conclusions can only be drawn by comparing scientists with non‐scientists. In this regard, the agreement was surprisingly high across all types of questions. The combined outcomes indicate that there is still a need to facilitate communication between stakeholders and to improve knowledge distribution strategies. Nevertheless, this study can support and be used by future projects and programmes, especially regarding the harmonization of terminology and methods.

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Do we speak one language on the way to sustainable soil management in Europe? A terminology check via an EU‐wide survey

Weninger,

Ramler,

Bondi

et al. 2024

European J Soil Science

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“…What became clear was the success of the relationship between researchers and land practitioners is vital in our quest to meet the UN SDG 6 of cleaner water. The absence of practitioners in research was recently discussed by Bouma (2022), a long-standing researcher in the sector, and a call made for the serious involvement of farmers to achieve the UN SDGs. While researchers in soil are generally keen to work with the land practitioners, providing the opportunity for this collaborative work needs to come from the land sector themselves.…”

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“…The future is relatively hopeful however. The piece by Bouma (2022) extolled the value of real engagement with land practitioners and the need for real world data for which to base our decisions going forward. Thankfully there are encouraging activities across the United Kingdom and Europe with farmers groups now actively engaging with research and efforts made to trial new methods with supportive frameworks to reduce the initial outlay of changing equipment and governmental initiatives aimed at increasing no-till farming (e.g., Jones, 2021).…”

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Achieving cleaner water for UN sustainable development goal 6 with natural processes: Challenges and the future

Crockford

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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UN Sustainable Development Goal 6 aims to achieve clean water for all. Access to clean water is a basic human right but can be costly and challenging. Using natural processes to provide cleaner water for treatment is a cost effective, and often beneficial to other ecosystem services, method. Unfortunately, there are a number of barriers to the implementation of natural processes for cleaner water such as the difficulty of funding these nature-based solutions which is linked to the requirement of accurate valuation. Once funded, partnership with land practitioners is important to ensure that detrimental impacts are not experienced elsewhere and to ensure that these natural processes such as ponds and constructed wetlands are maintained and managed appropriately. The future in the United Kingdom and Europe, in general, is optimistic despite the large funding gap for nature-based solutions overall. Green finance, essentially a loan or investment to support environmentally-friendly activities, has been developed to funnel money towards sustainable investments with an environmental focus, and the percentage of world wealth spent on such investments has increased.

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Did someone say “farmer-centric”? Digital tools for spatially distributed on-farm experimentation

Bramley

Song

Colaço

et al. 2022

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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How about the role of farmers and of pragmatic approaches when aiming for sustainable development by 2030?

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

Do we speak one language on the way to sustainable soil management in Europe? A terminology check via an EU‐wide survey

Do we speak one language on the way to sustainable soil management in Europe? A terminology check via an EU‐wide survey

Achieving cleaner water for UN sustainable development goal 6 with natural processes: Challenges and the future

Did someone say “farmer-centric”? Digital tools for spatially distributed on-farm experimentation

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