Tare land in Flemish horticulture

Bomans, Kirsten; Duytschaever, Klara; Gulinck, Hubert; Orshoven, Jos Van

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.05.004

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“…A second form of 'hidden' land use is the amount and use of tare land, i.e. those parts of the agricultural landscape not directly supporting crops (Bomans et al, 2010a). We also take tare land into account since they provide ES.…”

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Revisiting production and ecosystem services on the farm scale for evaluating land use alternatives

Lerouge

Sannen²,

Gulinck

et al. 2016

Environmental Science & Policy

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Land is a scarce resource and should be used in such a way that the increasing global demand for food and feed can be fulfilled, while ensuring sufficient levels of ecosystem services. While the demand on open space to deliver a multitude of services is increasing, drivers like global change and urbanization are undermining these services. Decision makers, from individual farmers to spatial planners, are in need of appropriate diagnostic tools to estimate trade-offs and synergies associated with land allocation and land use intensity decisions. This often implies trade-offs between food and biomass production and other non-provisioning ecosystem services. This paper presents an assessment on the farm scale using an integrated approach that combines spatial and economic analyses. It relies on the ecosystem services concept to evaluate land use alternatives. The analysis highlights current challenges to reach a societal optimal land allocation. INTRODUCTIONPopulation pressure results in an increasing demand for food and bio-energy products and hence also in an increasing demand for agricultural land (Meyfroidt et al., 2013;Tscharntke et al., 2012). This demand is in competition with the additional demand for land for residential, conservation, forestry, recreational, and other purposes (Zasada, 2011). With land as an increasingly scarce resource, spatial planners seek to balance land use allocation among competing stakeholders. This has led to a polarization in land use policies between demands for expanding urbanized fabric and the remaining open space used for agriculture, whilst natural areas are largely pushed back to relatively small and fragmented relics. Spatial planning has mainly focused on allocation of land to space demanding sectors and minimizing spatial conflicts. This approach falls short in considering present-day demands for multifunctionality, sustainability, ecosystem services, resilience and adaptive governance. While an integrative and spatially explicit approach to land allocation is highly needed, it is largely missing (Bomans et al., 2010b;Termorshuizen and Opdam, 2009). Particularly in strongly urbanized regions, the relation between the availability and use of space, and the potential services this space is able to provide to society, needs to be explored further. Increasing service delivery per unit of space can allow a decreasing spatial requirement for delivering this service, and hence, freeing space for other services. Fragmented peri-urban landscapes in particular, where interfaces between different forms of land use and associated actors are plenty, are in need of innovative concepts for land use allocation. Meanwhile, concepts of multifunctionality and ecosystem services already bridge the distinction between classical sectors like agriculture, nature and forestry. In the light of food and biomass production, the principal challenge is to simultaneously assess and maximize production as well as the other ES provided by bioproductive land (Balmford et al., 2012) which inevi...

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Revisiting production and ecosystem services on the farm scale for evaluating land use alternatives

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Gulinck

et al. 2016

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“…In contrast to the agricultural policy, spatial planning for agriculture still focuses mainly on the productive functions (Leinfelder, 2007) and thus on the productive space or the net agricultural area, like arable land and pasture. However, neglecting the potential of the non-productive space or functions within a farm may give a distorted picture of wider farm level multifunctionality pathways (Wilson, 2009), or may even lead to wrong estimates on the total agricultural area (Bomans et al, 2009). Moreover, more and more open space seems to be converted into "hobby-land" or into gardens, although the official statistics still consider it to be "agricultural land".…”

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Underrated transformations in the open space—The case of an urbanized and multifunctional area

Bomans

Steenberghen

Dewaelheyns

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Landscape and Urban Planning

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“…Land use planning in Flanders is embedded in a spatial planning policy (Allaert, 2009;Bomans et al, 2010). This policy is based on two types of plans: a spatial structure plan, which defines a vision on the development of the area at stake, and a spatial implementation plan, which guides implementation of the spatial structure plans.…”

Section: Spatial Planning In Flandersmentioning

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Prioritising land to be preserved for agriculture: A context-specific value tree

Kerselaers¹,

Rogge²,

Dessein

et al. 2011

Land Use Policy

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Tare land in Flemish horticulture

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

Revisiting production and ecosystem services on the farm scale for evaluating land use alternatives

Revisiting production and ecosystem services on the farm scale for evaluating land use alternatives

Underrated transformations in the open space—The case of an urbanized and multifunctional area

Prioritising land to be preserved for agriculture: A context-specific value tree

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