The future of agriculture and society in Iowa: four scenarios

Jarchow, Meghann; Kubiszewski, Ida; Larsen, GL Drake; Zdorkowski, Gretchen A.; Costanza, Robert; Gailans, Stefan; Ohde, Nicholaus; Dietzel, Ranae; Kaplan, Sara R.; Neal, Jeri; Petrehn, Mae Rose; Gunther, Theodore P.; D'Adamo, Stephanie N.; McCann, Nicholas; Larson, Andrew; Damery, Phillip; Gross-Camp, Lee; Merriman, Marcello; Post, Julian; Sheradin, Meghann E.; Liebman, Matt

doi:10.1080/14735903.2012.646730

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“…The identification of sustainable management strategies on both farm and landscape levels could be facilitated by the development of integrated decision tools. This could be, for instance, sound cost-benefit frameworks (ELD-Initiative, 2013) accompanied by modeling and simulation techniques that enable the creation and evaluation of scenarios of alternative futures and other decision tools to address this gap Costanza et al, 2006Costanza et al, , 2013Jarchow et al, 2012).…”

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A review of methods, data, and models to assess changes in the value of ecosystem services from land degradation and restoration

Turner

Anderson

Gonzales-Chang

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Ecological Modelling

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A review of methods, data, and models to assess changes in the value of ecosystem services from land degradation and restoration

Turner

Anderson

Gonzales-Chang

et al. 2016

Ecological Modelling

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“…However, they lack the decision-making tools to develop robust and effective solutions to the problem. Modeling and simulation techniques enable the creation and evaluation of scenarios of alternative futures and decision tools to address this gap (Farley and Costanza, 2002;Costanza et al, 2006Costanza et al, , 2013Jarchow et al, 2012).…”

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The ecological economics of land degradation: Impacts on ecosystem service values

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Anderson

Costanza

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Ecological Economics

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“…The human population is expected to grow to more than 9 billion by 2050 (United Nations 2013), which raises questions about our ability to meet global demand for agricultural products while maintaining ecosystem services-the benefits of nature on which human society depends (Tilman et al 2002, Foley et al 2011, Jarchow et al 2012. Advancing sustainability (as described by Pretty 2008) in working landscapes will require a paradigm shift, in which agricultural operations are diversified to include production of ecosystem services as well as agricultural commodities.…”

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The Capacity-Building Stewardship Model: assessment of an agricultural network as a mechanism for improving regional agroecosystem sustainability

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Zedler²,

Barzen³

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. 2017. The Capacity-Building Stewardship Model: assessment of an agricultural network as a mechanism for improving regional agroecosystem sustainability. Ecology and Society 22 (1) ABSTRACT. Working lands have potential to meet agricultural production targets while serving as reservoirs of biological diversity and as sources of ecological services. Yet agricultural policy creates disincentives for this integration of conservation and production goals. While necessary, the development of a policy context that promotes agroecosystem sustainability will take time, and successful implementation will depend on a receptive agricultural audience. As the demands placed on working lands grow, there is a need for regional support networks that build agricultural producers' capacity for land stewardship. We used a social-ecological system framework to illustrate the Healthy Grown Potato Program as an agricultural network case study. Our Capacity-Building Stewardship Model reflects a 20-year experience working in collaboration with potato growers certified under an ecolabel in Wisconsin, USA. The model applies an evolving, modular farm stewardship standard to the entire farm-croplands and noncroplands. The model demonstrates an effective process for facilitating communication and shared learning among program participants, including agricultural producers, university extension specialists, nonprofit conservation partners, and industry representatives. The limitation of the model in practice has been securing funding to support expansion of the program and to ensure that the ecolabel standard is responsive to changes in the social-ecological system. Despite this constraint, the Capacity-Building Stewardship Model reveals an important mechanism for building regional commitment to conservation, with agricultural producers in a leadership role as architects, adopters, and advocates for stewardship behavior. Our experience provides important insight for the application of agri-environment schemes on private lands. The durability of a conservation ethic on working farms is likely to be enhanced when networks engage and support producers in an ongoing stewardship dialogue. Stewardship networks provide a means for coordination of conservation practices across property boundaries; with sufficient enrollment, they can achieve the spatial scale necessary to enhance regional agroecosystem sustainability.

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The future of agriculture and society in Iowa: four scenarios

Cited by 14 publications

References 42 publications

A review of methods, data, and models to assess changes in the value of ecosystem services from land degradation and restoration

A review of methods, data, and models to assess changes in the value of ecosystem services from land degradation and restoration

The ecological economics of land degradation: Impacts on ecosystem service values

The Capacity-Building Stewardship Model: assessment of an agricultural network as a mechanism for improving regional agroecosystem sustainability

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