The conditions under which farmers are likely to adapt their behaviour: A case study of private land conservation in the Cape Winelands, South Africa

Honig, Maria; Petersen, Samantha; Shearing, Clifford; Pintér, László; Kotze, Inge

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.06.016

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“…Second, on examining expressions of agency, previous literature explains agency based on how locals determine their engagement with systems, and how such engagement either allows or restricts their capacity to act (Chirozva 2015; Cole et al 2019). Scholars also relate agency to how locals develop awareness and motivation to participate in conservation programs (Honig et al 2015). However, our analysis revealed that agency also pertains to processes by which locals attempt to thrive where the tasks of natural resource managers do not seem to work in their favor.…”

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“…In such instances, the collective agency occurs in people's capability to utilize unfavorable situations of management in advancing issues that are of relevant need to them. Honig et al (2015) concluded that the agency of locals to participate in conservation programs are defined by either motivation or awareness about the provisions of such programs. By comparison, the MCNP case indicated that awareness enabled respondents to express various complaints against the regime.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Previous scholars in the conservation and resource management literature, have used agency to explore the degree to which locals shape their engagement with different systems, and how this engagement may enable or disable the capacity of local people to act (Chirozva 2015; Cole et al 2019). Also, how locals cultivate awareness and motivation to participate in conservation programs, such as the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Wine Initiative (BWI) in South Africa (Honig et al 2015). Accordingly, agency is not always overt action or active community engagement to change something, but, includes practices of alternative behavior on the part of local people.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Expressing agency in antagonistic policy environments

Nebasifu

Atong

2019

Environmental Sociology

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Studies have shown how centralized institutions in resource management lead to adverse impacts on communities. However, important questions remain about the mechanisms through which people thrive under unfavorable policy environments. This paper examines how locals around the Mount Cameroon National Park (MCNP) carve space for articulating their agency despite unsympathetic management initiatives. Using focus group discussions and thematic analysis of data from 17 villages, the results identified arrangements that do not entirely solicit local consent in natural resource management. In this context, locals express their agency holding onto cultural traditions through religious engagement and the use of economic incentives to enhance livelihoods. They do so with the aid of traditional institutions, awareness of system challenges, acting more wisely, and initiating constructive needs in remote areas.

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Expressing agency in antagonistic policy environments

Nebasifu

Atong

2019

Environmental Sociology

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“…Nevertheless, for the current applied study, we decided to use categorical responses, which facilitated experts' Effective on ground management is not purely a matter of mathematical optimization-there are other social and human factors which have not been considered here. For example, we did not consider landowners' willingness to engage in conservation practices, such as aquatic weed control, river bank restoration and improved invasive herbivore management (Honig, Petersen, Shearing, Pinter, & Kotze, 2015). Given most of the Daly River catchment is privately owned or managed, failing to account for landowners' willingness to participate into conservation programmes, or more generally their attitudes towards conservation, is likely to represent a barrier to achievement of conservation objectives.…”

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Information uncertainty influences conservation outcomes when prioritizing multi‐action management efforts

Cattarino

Hermoso

Carwardine

et al. 2018

Journal of Applied Ecology

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In managing various threats to biodiversity, it is important to prioritize multiple management actions and the levels of effort to apply. However, a spatial conservation prioritization framework that integrates these key aspects, and can be generalized, is still missing. Moreover, assessing the robustness of prioritization frameworks to uncertainty in species responses to management is critical to avoid misallocation of limited resources. Yet, the impact of information uncertainty on prioritization of management effort remains unknown. We present an approach for prioritizing alternative levels of conservation management effort to multiple actions, based on the ecological responses of species to management. We estimated species responses through a structured email‐based expert elicitation process, where we also captured the uncertainty in individual experts' assessments. We identified priority locations and associated level of management of effort of four actions to abate threats to freshwater‐dependent fauna, using a northern Australia case study, and quantified sensitivity of the proposed solution to uncertainty in the answers of each individual expert. Achievement of conservation targets for freshwater‐dependent fauna in the Daly River catchment would require 9.4 million AU$ per year, for a total of approximately 189 million AU$ investment over 20 years. We suggest that this could be best achieved through a mix of aerial shooting of buffalos and pigs, riparian fencing and chemical spraying of weeds, applied at varying levels of management effort in key areas of the catchment. Uncertainty in experts' estimation of species responses to threats causes 60% of the species to achieve 80% of their conservation targets, which was consistent across target levels. Synthesis and applications. Our prioritization approach facilitates the planning of conservation management at fine spatial scales and is applicable to terrestrial, freshwater and marine realms. Plan implementation may require policy instruments ranging from landowner stewardship agreements, market‐based mechanisms and low‐intensity land use management schemes, to regulation of commercial activities within portions of marine protected areas. However, assessing plan sensitivity to uncertainty in species response to management and finding ways of dealing with it in the prioritization rather than ignoring it, as often done, remains vital for effective achievement of conservation objectives.

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“…A percentage of 26% of vine growers declare that they decided to implement organic farming for its eco-friendly profile, 25% of farmers to take advantage of the benefit of subsidies and 25% of farmers to achieve higher product quality and the prospect of higher price expected, whereas the rest of farmers implemented organic farming as they consider it "traditional agriculture". It appears that organic farming is considered more as a defensive action and less as a transition towards quality production (Honig et al, 2015).…”

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Inferior Crop Performance in Organic Vine and Olive Sector Due to the Poor Implementation of Quality Processes. The Case of Kefallinia.

Bouchagier¹,

Tsimpoukas²,

Kaldis³

2018

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Vines and olives are the prevailing crops in Kefallinia, but there is a concern about the competition of the sector and the adoption of organic farming. A farmer survey was conducted in the major viticulture and olive culture spot to study conventional and organic status for these two crops. Non-existent extension support system is the most important factor for the inferior competition of the sector. Extensive bureaucracy is another factor that prevents farmers to participate in the organic farming scheme. Organic farming is not attractive and many farmers initially motivated to participate in the scheme by the benefit of subsidies, finally abandoned the undertaking after the end of the first phase of the program. Low competition of the sector reduces attractiveness to young farmers. Olive oil produced is not branded and therefore farmers do not enjoy high product prices. Development of farmer groups and implementation of quality assurance scheme is proposed as a mean to improve competition of the sector.

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The conditions under which farmers are likely to adapt their behaviour: A case study of private land conservation in the Cape Winelands, South Africa

Cited by 22 publications

References 58 publications

Expressing agency in antagonistic policy environments

Expressing agency in antagonistic policy environments

Information uncertainty influences conservation outcomes when prioritizing multi‐action management efforts

Inferior Crop Performance in Organic Vine and Olive Sector Due to the Poor Implementation of Quality Processes. The Case of Kefallinia.

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