Trade-offs of European agricultural abandonment

Zanden, Emma H. van der; Verburg, Peter H.; Schulp, Catharina J.E.; Verkerk, Pieter Johannes

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.01.003

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“…Furthermore, the urban-rural gradient seems to shape the supply bundles identified in regions with a diverse landscape: for instance, a study in the region of Stockholm found that distance from the city centre strongly predicted the patterns found for most ecosystem services (Queiroz et al 2015) and could therefore contribute to explaining the bundles identified in this region. In Denmark, there was a tendency for peri-urban landscapes to be important areas for cultural service sites, which led to the 'multifunctional bundle' types to be situated around the larger cities (Turner et al 2014). Climate aspects were also found to drive the supply bundles (Dai et al 2017), with a study at the European scale even concluding that climate could be the primary driver of ecosystem services supply at the macro-scale (Mouchet et al 2017).…”

Section: Drivers For Ecosystem Services Bundlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Climate aspects were also found to drive the supply bundles (Dai et al 2017), with a study at the European scale even concluding that climate could be the primary driver of ecosystem services supply at the macro-scale (Mouchet et al 2017). Furthermore, simple geomorphologic features of a landscape can act as drivers for some bundle types: for instance, shore areas were found to host tourism-dominated bundles in Germany and Denmark (Turner et al 2014, Dittrich et al 2017-to be attributed notably to the scenic beauty of the sea (Turner et al 2014). Areas with the best agricultural soils were also identified as locations with specialised bundles -for instance, a study in Quebec by Renard et al (2015) showed that good soils were locations of bundles with a low diversity of services and dominated by crop production.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Ecosystem services bundles: challenges and opportunities for implementation and further research

Saidi

Spray

2018

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Background: the concept of 'ecosystem services bundles', i.e. ecosystem services that repeatedly appear together across space and/or time, has been developed and refined as part of an integrated approach to assess interactions between ecosystem services. Nevertheless, published evidence of actual use of bundles in decision-making is lacking. In the light of this gap, a review of what bundle approaches have shown and what they can bring to decision-making is timely. Method: we conducted two separate systematic reviews. The first one addressed emerging issues within what we identify as the diverse utilisation and definition of the concept of 'bundle' in the literature. The second one focused on papers dealing with bundles as sets of consistently associated services. Review Synthesis: the review first highlights that the confusion surrounding the term 'bundle' in ecosystem services literature threatens to weaken the potential for analysis of bundles to inform decision-making. Then, thanks to the review of peer-reviewed papers that detect bundles as sets of consistently associated services, we analyse the diversity of methodological choices and we detail the interactions observed between different ecosystem services across the literature. We also show that landscape features, socio-economic conditions and institutional factors are all potential drivers for the occurrence of specific bundles in a landscape. Discussion: overall, it appears that the analysis of bundles provides an opportunity to enhance policy effectiveness. Nevertheless, the methodological challenges linked to the identification and interpretation of bundles call for careful and reflective study designs. We anticipate that this review will lead to a better understanding by scientists and practitioners of the potential for bundle studies to inform decision-making.

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Section: Drivers For Ecosystem Services Bundlesmentioning

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Ecosystem services bundles: challenges and opportunities for implementation and further research

Saidi

Spray

2018

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…Land-use change is also shown in the increase in the area of arable-grass fodder at the expense of cereals, and the simultaneous reduction in the number of ruminants; indicating a transition to more extensive agriculture in some regions (Trubins, 2013). It is also predicted that an ever-increasing area of agricultural land in the EU will be managed by passive farmers over the coming decades or abandoned (Keenleyside and Tucker, 2010;van der Zanden et al, 2017). Andersson et al (2011) find that most passive farming occurs in marginal regions and on farms that have previously been relatively small, and making low profits and no investments.…”

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Is Passive Farming A Problem for Agriculture in the EU?

Brady¹,

Hristov²,

Sahrbacher³

et al. 2017

J Agricultural Economics

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We address a new agricultural policy concern following the decoupling of CAP direct payments in 2005: passive farming, whereby landowners maintain their agricultural area to collect payments without producing commodities. It is claimed that passive farming is hindering agricultural development by ‘blocking’ access to farmland for expanding farmers. We evaluate the links between the EU's Single Payment Scheme (SPS), passive farming, land use and agricultural development. Following identification of the rational landowners’ optimal land‐use choice, we evaluate the effects of the SPS using a spatial, agent‐based model that simulates farmers’ competition for land in a case‐study region of Sweden. We show that passive farming does not constrain land from being used in production; on the contrary more land is used than would be the case without the SPS. We conclude that passive farming is not a problem for agriculture, but provides public goods that would otherwise be under provided: preservation of marginal farmland and future food security. However SPS payments on highly productive land inflate land values (capitalisation) and slow structural change, which hinder agricultural development. Consequently CAP goals could be better served by targeting payments on marginal land and phasing out payments to highly productive land.

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“…However, the process of abandoning agricultural areas has led to a change from both an ecosystem and a landscape point of view, causing different impacts with different repercussions from country to country and from region to region. It is estimated that, in the future, this abandonment will affect more and more areas in Europe and throughout the world [3,4]. This process, which has taken place in the last 50 years, is now accelerating, especially in marginal and mountainous areas, due to multiple factors linked to worsening economic conditions and the steady migration of rural workers from small villages to large cities [5,6].…”

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Vernacular Farm Buildings and Rural Landscape: A Geospatial Approach for Their Integrated Management

2019

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Over the centuries, farm buildings, which accompany the development of agriculture, have played an important role in defining spatial and environmental planning. In some European countries in particular, these rural structures have been built based on traditional agricultural needs and typical land characteristics. Considering the land abandonment that has occurred over the last five decades, with farmers moving to more comfortable residences in neighboring urban settlements, historical farm buildings have often been abandoned, thus causing a leakage of the historical-cultural heritage of the rural landscape. Nowadays, open data and geographic technologies together with advanced technological tools allow us to gather multidisciplinary information about the specific characteristics of each farm building, thus improving our knowledge. This information can greatly support the protection of those buildings and landscapes that have high cultural and naturalistic value. In this paper, the potential of Geographic Information Systems to catalogue the farm buildings of the Basilicata region (Southern Italy) is explored. The analysis of these buildings, traditionally known as masserie, integrates some typical aspects of landscape studies, paving the way for sustainable management of the important cultural heritage represented by vernacular farm buildings and the rural landscape.

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Trade-offs of European agricultural abandonment

Cited by 169 publications

References 105 publications

Ecosystem services bundles: challenges and opportunities for implementation and further research

Ecosystem services bundles: challenges and opportunities for implementation and further research

Is Passive Farming A Problem for Agriculture in the EU?

Vernacular Farm Buildings and Rural Landscape: A Geospatial Approach for Their Integrated Management

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