Resolving Conflicts between Agriculture and the Natural Environment

Tanentzap, Andrew J.; Lamb, Anthony; Walker, Susan; Farmer, Andrew

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002242

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“…Voluntary (including incentive-based) programs can support motivated producers to steward their land, while regulations provide broader protection, but potentially less efficiently; combining these can both "crowd in" producers that are already interested in environmentally conscious land management and create hard limits within which all producers must operate. For example, China has taken the approach to strictly regulate pollution from large agri-business while offering incentives and support to small producers to accomplish environmental goals while maintaining rural lifestyles and cultures [159,160]. Voluntary programs like conservation easement purchase programs can be effective when landowner and conservation priorities naturally align.…”

Section: Strategy 1 Coordinate Governance Of Agricultural Landscapesmentioning

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5 Key Challenges and Solutions for Governing Complex Adaptive (Food) Systems

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Abstract:There is increasing recognition in academic circles of the importance of adaptive governance for the sustainability of social-ecological systems, but little examination of specific implications for the 34% of land-use where human activities are pervasive but potentially commensurate with functioning ecosystems: agricultural production systems. In this paper, we argue for the need to view food systems and agro-ecosystems as multi-scalar complex adaptive systems and identify five key challenging characteristics of such systems: multi-causality; cumulative impacts; regime shifts; teleconnections and mismatch of scales. These characteristics are necessary features of multi-scalar adaptive systems, and apply equally to social and natural subsystems. We discuss the implications of these characteristics for agricultural production systems and consider how governance can rise to these challenges. We present five case studies that highlight these issues: pollinator declines; payments for ecosystem services; pest control and pesticide resistance; downstream aquatic systems in Tasman Bay, New Zealand; and riparian buffers in Puget Sound, USA. From these case studies we derive recommendations for managing agricultural systems, both specific and general. Ultimately, adaptive governance of agro-ecosystems will likely hinge upon three paradigm shifts: viewing farmers and ranchers not only as food producers but also as land and water managers; seeking not yield maximization but rather resilient management of food ecosystems; and critically, as it transcends the production-system literature, engaging broad audiences not only as consumers but also citizens.

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Section: Strategy 1 Coordinate Governance Of Agricultural Landscapesmentioning

confidence: 99%

5 Key Challenges and Solutions for Governing Complex Adaptive (Food) Systems

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“…Worldwide, actors from different worlds come into conflict over the use of arable/natural space, and the environmental impacts of the dominant farming model can no longer be denied (Tanentzap et al 2015). Will negotiating and defining new forms of governance be enough to untangle such complex issues?…”

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“…However, the bad news is that, of all the crops cultivated on a large scale, viticulture is the biggest pesticide consumer per acreage (Phytowelt GmbH for the European Commission 2003). As for all agriculture, evidence of significant harm to the environment is highlighted more and more (Foley et al 2011;Tanentzap et al 2015). Criticism of conventional viticulture has even gone as far as the law courts, when injuries to human health can be proven.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…Tangled in this complexity, the lack of contradictory contributions underpinning research hypotheses has led to heuristic poverty (Pestre 2013). Responses to criticism regarding the environmental impacts of agriculture (Tanentzap et al 2015) have focused on the development of new standards, forms of environmental governance, or support for transitions (Barbier and Elzen 2012;Duru et al 2015). Research has also responded by designing new agronomic models, but without involving the end users (Prost et al 2012).…”

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Linking the knowledge and reasoning of dissenting actors fosters a bottom-up design of agroecological viticulture

Moneyron¹,

Lallemand²,

Schmitt³

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Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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Wine growing has a high economic value globally, and vineyards, with their centenarian grape varieties, are an integral part of our societies. Yet with the use of spraying to control pathogens and weeds, mainstream viticulture has become a big pesticide consumer. Criticism of this conventional type of viticulture and its environmental/health impacts is increasing strongly throughout society. Until now, mainstream 'top-down' scientific-technical developments have focused on breeding for new varieties and on designing new agronomic models. In parallel, organic and biodynamic practices have been developing alternatives. Either way, changes do not develop on the expected time scale. We posit that the diversity of actors concerned, from winegrowers to technical advisers, consumer associations, conservationists, elected representatives, citizens, and scientists, all contribute to the perpetuation of a constrained situation, through their differences in perspectives and practices, positions, knowledge, and reasoning. To untangle this situation, we brought together these dissenting actors. With a view to resolving the epistemological challenges, we then characterized four types of knowledge, along with the reasoning in play, and designed a tetrahedral model to legitimize and inter-relate them. This tetrahedron supported coconstruction of a collective epistemology after a paradigm shift, in which the dissensus became a resource on numerous occasions. We then highlighted masked double-bind situations and went further, developing a seven-step Argonaut to conduct the project. New practices were designed, to do away with herbicides and develop ecological grassing. They were implemented on a large scale in vineyards, within a short time frame, while enhancing the value of a neighbouring nature reserve. Projects currently underway in Switzerland, Germany, and France suggest that differences in knowledge are enriching, and yet that the reasoning at play fit with our tetrahedron model. We thus show that dissenting actors can dissolve agronomic/economic/ecological dilemmas, while acting under uncertainty, and foster agroecology development.

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“…The conversion of natural environments into agricultural areas (TANENTZAP et al, 2015) has led to a growing concern about the impacts on biological communities caused by monocultures, habitat fragmentation and pesticide use (GALINDO-LEAL;CÂMARA, 2003;EDWARDS et al, 2014). However, little is known about the impacts of conventional agricultural crops on the richness and abundance of organisms inhabiting directly affected areas.…”

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confidence: 99%

Ant assemblages (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) associated to environments of a rural property in the extreme western region of the state of Santa Catarina

Lutinski¹,

Lutinski²,

Beling³

et al. 2018

Rev. Bras. Ciênc. Ambient. (Online)

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The conversion of natural environments into agricultural areas has led to habitat fragmentation and caused impacts on biological communities. This study evaluated the richness and abundance of ant assemblages from different environments within a small rural property. The study was conducted in December 2015 in the Palma Sola municipality, extreme western region of the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. The sampled environments included a permanent preservation area, a forest fragment, a corn crop, a tobacco crop and a pine reforestation. Pitfall traps and manual collections were used. The observed richness totaled 69 species. Only two species, Camponotus rufipes and Pheidole lignicola, occurred in the five environments sampled. Overall, 65.3% of the variation in ants' occurrence, according to the sampled environments, was explained by the principal component analysis (PCA) components. This study presents new results on the ant diversity from rural areas, and may provide potential subsidies for management and conservation plans.Keywords: agro ecosystems; agrochemicals; ant fauna; conservation; richness. RESUMOA transformação de ambientes naturais em áreas agrícolas vem provocando a fragmentação ambiental e gerando impactos sobre as comunidades de organismos. Este estudo avaliou a riqueza e a abundância das assembleias de formigas de ambientes que compõem uma propriedade rural. O estudo foi conduzido no município de Palma Sola, extremo oeste catarinense, no mês de dezembro de 2015. Os ambientes avaliados foram uma área de preservação permanente, um fragmento florestal, uma lavoura de milho, uma lavoura de tabaco e um reflorestamento de pinus. Foram utilizadas armadilhas de queda e coleta manual. A riqueza amostrada foi de 69 espécies. Apenas duas espécies, Camponotus rufipes e Pheidole lignicola, ocorreram nos cinco ambientes amostrados. Ao todo, 65,3% da variação das ocorrências de formigas segundo os ambientes amostrados foi explicada pelos componentes da análise de componentes principais (ACP). Este estudo apresenta indicativos da diversidade presente em ambientes rurais e pode representar subsídios para planos de manejo e conservação.

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Resolving Conflicts between Agriculture and the Natural Environment

Cited by 128 publications

References 79 publications

5 Key Challenges and Solutions for Governing Complex Adaptive (Food) Systems

5 Key Challenges and Solutions for Governing Complex Adaptive (Food) Systems

Linking the knowledge and reasoning of dissenting actors fosters a bottom-up design of agroecological viticulture

Ant assemblages (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) associated to environments of a rural property in the extreme western region of the state of Santa Catarina

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