Multifunctionality of agriculture: an inquiry into the complementarity between landscape preservation and food security

Brunstad, Rolf Jens; Gaasland, Ivar; Vårdal, Erling

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“…However, the research also provides evidence to measures that extend beyond the three pillars of CSA that may not be climate-related. CSA may include social, institutional and livelihood strategies (see Table 7 (Brunstad et al 2005;Hodbod et al 2016Taylor 2017. For the CSA discourse, integration of social and livelihood functions agricultural systems could provide, coupled with a broader definition of CSA beyond the three pillars, will help strengthens the relevance and importance of the approach from a multifunctional perspective.…”

Section: Barriers To Adoption Of Climate-smart Interventionsmentioning

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Climate-smart agriculture in practice: insights from smallholder farmers, Timor-Leste and the Philippines, Southeast Asia

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The climate challenges confronting agriculture are multiple, interconnected and multi-scaled.Agriculture is a source of increasing greenhouse gas emissions, but it is also vulnerable to climate change impacts. Adopting resilient approaches in the agricultural industry can help to contribute to both climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation. Climate-smart agriculture has emerged as a solution to address the multiple challenges of climate change and food security by sustainably increasing productivity, enhancing resilience and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. To date, there is limited scholarly evidence on what constitutes climate-smart agriculture, and how it is framed globally and practiced by smallholder farming communities. This research helps to bridge this gap by analysing the international discourse around climate-smart agriculture, and providing local empirical evidence derived from smallholder farming communities in the Philippines and TimorLeste.At the broad level, this research aims to identify how climate-smart agriculture within communitybased adaptation programs is contributing to the integration of mitigation and adaptation responses to climate change. Drawing from political ecology and climate change (adaptation and mitigation sciences) theories, the research explains how socio-institutional factors -inequality, unequal power relations and social injustice -influence climate-smart agriculture. The theoretical arguments are illustrated with empirical case studies of smallholder farmers and civil society organisations in the two case studies. Using mixed qualitative methods and descriptive analysis of over 150 semistructured interviews, focus group discussions and participant observation, the research examines climate-smart agriculture practices across three broad categories: vulnerability of smallholder farmers (socioeconomic factors), synergistic relationships (adaptation, mitigation and food security) and governance (socio-institutional determinants).This research argues that mitigation and adaptation interventions are climate-smart for smallholder farmers when they directly address local climate risks, support a combination of adaptation, food security and livelihood strategies, and empower at-risk and marginalised populations. Results indicate that climate-smart agriculture in the Philippines and Timor-Leste are characterised and influenced by multiple socio-institutional factors. The increasing burden of loss and damage as a result of extreme climate events subject women to migration, increased discrimination, loss of customary rights to land, resource poverty and food insecurity. In terms of farming practices implemented by smallholder farmers, most adaptation actions were found to have corresponding positive mitigation, food security and livelihood co-benefits. At the community level, climate-smart interventions are highly locationspecific, technically rigorous, involve knowledge-intensive processes, and are influenced by the finance and capacities of local farming com...

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Section: Barriers To Adoption Of Climate-smart Interventionsmentioning

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Climate-smart agriculture in practice: insights from smallholder farmers, Timor-Leste and the Philippines, Southeast Asia

Chandra¹

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“…Así, autores como Dobbs y Pretty (2004) cuestionarán su transposición a nivel político sin demasiados aciertos, mientras otros como Wilson (2001) considerarán la multifuncionalidad de la agricultura (y del regadío) como la transición del carácter productivista de la agricultura a su dimensión sostenibilista. Así, si bien los sistemas de regadío permiten alargar las campañas agrícolas, obtener cultivos durante la estación seca y reducir los daños provocados por las variaciones climáticas, reduciendo con ello la incertidumbre de las demandas productivas y aumentando así mismo la diversidad del mosaico agrícola, también son responsables de actividades y/o actitudes no siempre favorables a la protección de los ecosistemas acuáticos que son motivo de crítica: el (ab)uso de fertilizantes y productos químicos, a la sobreexplotación de acuíferos, la salinización del suelo debido a la mala gestión de los sistemas de regadío o la pérdida de fertilidad del suelo como resultado de la sobreexplotación de suelos frágiles (Hervieu, 2002;Brunstad et al, 2005). Todo ello configura las bases de la multifuncionalidad de la agricultura (y del regadío), tanto a nivel tangible (cantidad y calidad del agua y del suelo utilizados, contribución a la producción de alimento, servicios ambientales generados o mitigación de los efectos acaecidos por el cambio climático) como intangible (valoración y estructuración del paisaje, conservación del patrimonio cultural rural o potenciación de las actividades lú-dicas).…”

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Gestionar desde la territorialidad: ¿cómo integrar la multifuncionalidad y la participación social en la legitimación del regadío?

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Verdaguer³

2014

Proceedings - Irrigation, Society and Landscape. Tribute to Thomas F. Glick

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Resumen. La estrategia por gestionar el territorio, los recursos naturales y las demandas sociales ha tenido en el desarrollo del regadío un aliado fiel a lo largo de los años. En países como España, Francia e Italia la apuesta por el regadío da fe del vínculo indisociable entre toda actividad económico-productiva del agua y la vertebración del territorio. Regiones como Cataluña, Midi-Pyrénées y Lombardia simbolizan, a su vez, el amplio bagaje cultural del regadío. En esta comunicación se presentan tres casos de estudio (canal Segarra-Garrigues, canal de la Neste y canal de la Muzza) que afrontan la multifuncionalidad del regadío desde políticas, actuaciones y percepciones sociales distintas. A su vez, se presentan las bases de la gestión territorial del regadío como mecanismo de adaptación a la complejidad que supone el trinomio formado por los recursos naturales disponibles, las demandas sociales cambiantes y la vertebración del territorio. La aplicación de dichas bases tiene por finalidad identificar las variables que justifican el (des) acuerdo entre la diversidad de discursos asociados a la promoción del regadío así como determinar el perfil del actor dominante, legitimar el mismo o dilucidar las mejores estrategias y/o acciones para la gestión integrada del agua entre demandas en competencia.Palabras clave: territorio, multifuncionalidad, regadío, legitimación. Abstract:The strategy to manage the territory, natural resources, and social demands has been supported by the development of irrigation along the years. In countries like Spain, France or Italy, the commitment on irrigation attests the inseparable link between all economic and productive water use and the structuring of the territory. Regions such as Catalonia, Midi-Pyrenees and Lombardy symbolize, in turn, the broad cultural background of irrigation. In this paper we present three case studies (SegarraGarrigues irrigation canal, Neste irrigation canal, and Muzza irrigation canal) which face multifunctionality differing from irrigation policies, actions, and social perceptions. In turn, the bases of the territorial management of irrigation will be presented as a mechanism to adapt to the complexity to affront the trinomial relationship between availability of natural resources, changing social demands, and the structuring of the territory. The application of those bases is intended to identify variables to justify the (dis) agreement between the diversity of discourses associated with irrigation' promotion, as well as to determine the dominant stakeholder' profile, its degree of legitimacy, or ascertain the best strategies and/or actions for the integrated management of water resources between competing water demands.

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“…Finally in Brunstad et al (2005) the focus was on the cost complementarities (jointness) between these two public goods, and between public goods and private goods. We discuss the optimal policy when food security and landscape preservation are simultaneously taken into account.…”

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“…The model is constructed to perform policy analyses, and has as such been used by the Norwegian Ministry of Finance and the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture. 4 The table is adapted from Brunstad et al (2005) 6 would be at M in panel a of figure 1 below, where the marginal profit from agriculture (MPA) is zero. Several studies have attempted to estimate the willingness to pay for the amenity value of the cultural landscape.…”

Section: Cultural Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

“…For recent papers addressing this question, see Peterson et al (2002) and Brunstad et al (1995aBrunstad et al ( ,1999Brunstad et al ( and 2005. In terms of Pigouvian welfare economics agricultural production may have positive external effects on perceived public goods like the amenity value of the cultural landscape, see for instance Drake (1992).…”

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Optimal Provision of Public Goods. Implications for Support to Agriculture.

2007

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Abstract:This paper summarises a decade of research by the authors into the welfare economic foundations for agricultural policy. The main results are that the levels of support to agriculture in rich developed countries like Norway are way out of proportion with what could conceivably be defended by welfare theoretic arguments. However, the present debate on the multifunctional role of agriculture points to valid arguments for agricultural support. In terms of welfare economics these arguments are found in the links between agriculture and public goods like landscape amenities and food security. This paper offers a modest attempt to quantify the Pigouvian subsidies that could be derived from these arguments.

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Multifunctionality of agriculture: an inquiry into the complementarity between landscape preservation and food security

Cited by 84 publications

References 11 publications

Climate-smart agriculture in practice: insights from smallholder farmers, Timor-Leste and the Philippines, Southeast Asia

Climate-smart agriculture in practice: insights from smallholder farmers, Timor-Leste and the Philippines, Southeast Asia

Gestionar desde la territorialidad: ¿cómo integrar la multifuncionalidad y la participación social en la legitimación del regadío?

Optimal Provision of Public Goods. Implications for Support to Agriculture.

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