A comparative analysis of governance and leadership in agricultural development policy networks

Rudnick, Jessica; Niles, Meredith T.; Lubell, Mark; Cramer, Laura

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.12.015

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“…This is important, especially in developing countries [24][25][26]. Many scholars are of the opinion that innovation networks are an optimum tool for the demonstration activities [27][28][29].…”

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New Approach to Sustainability in Rural Areas Comprising Agriculture Practices–Analysis of Demonstration Farms in the Czech Republic

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The research was aimed at an overview and analysis of the demonstration activities in the Czech Republic dealing with the transfer of innovations for agricultural practice. Several methods were used to compile the national inventory, in particular the questionnaire survey method. The Czech part of the research was based on 30 questionnaires conducted among both farmers and agricultural organizations engaged in demonstration activities. The questions were focused on a specialization in agriculture, type of the management, connections with networks and their size, types of demonstration activities according to the types of farms and non-productive activities. The most common topics and purposes for demonstration in the Czech Republic are recorded for the category arable land with combined crops. Highly linked to sustainability are activities such as conservation agriculture on arable land with combined crops, root crops and fodders mainly due to a reduction of soil erosion within crop production and animal health management and welfare for dairy within livestock production. The Ministry of Agriculture has prepared a subsidy program to help farmers in the form of illustrative practical demonstrations of comprehensive sustainable farming practices. The main added values for the end-users, if the generated knowledge is implemented, are to strengthen the knowledge transfer system in agriculture, focusing on practical demonstrations and presentation of sustainable farming systems and soil protection in practice. However, the demonstration activities support mostly technological development and some individual ecological measures whereas the sustainability of agriculture as the complex process unifying the crop and animal production is not in the foreground.

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“…Agriculture is an industry with strong sensitivity to policy issues. If the impacts of policy factors on industrial agglomerations are very small or even not significant, the most common reason will generally be that the existing policies cannot meet the industrial development requirements [ 25 ], or cannot significantly influence the production decision-making of the main agencies [ 26 ], and thereby have no significant spatial spillover effects [ 27 ]. The regression results of the policy dummy variables also show that neither the old policy nor the new policy can satisfy the industry’s development needs.…”

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Analysis of the temporal and spatial evolution characteristics and influencing factors of China’s herbivorous animal husbandry industry

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It is vast significance to explore the spatial and temporal evolution characteristics and influencing factors of herbivorous animal husbandry industry based on the context of China's agriculture pursuing high-quality development. In this paper, we analyze the spatial and temporal evolution of the layout of China's herbivorous animal husbandry industry and its influencing factors based on the spatial autocorrelation analysis, standard deviation ellipse, and spatial Durbin model with data from 1980 to 2017. The results show that there are significant positive autocorrelation characteristics of "high-high" aggregation and "low-low" aggregation in the Chinese herbivorous animal husbandry industry. To be specific, in the past four decades, the spatial distribution center of China's herbivorous animal husbandry industry has moved towards the northeast, crossing the boundary between agriculture and animal husbandry in China, presenting a clear trend of moving from pastoral area to agricultural area; the gradual narrowing of the spatial distribution range indicates the gradually increased degree of aggregation within the industry; the east-west stretch of spatial distribution has been strengthened, and the azimuth angle shows clockwise change, suggesting that the industrial expansion in the northeast-southwest direction is prominent; the influencing factors of changes in the spatial distribution of the industry reveal that the quantity and production capacity of productive land, people's income and living standards, and the level of mechanization will promote the development of China's herbivorous animal husbandry industry, and are essential factors influencing industrial distribution and transfer, while policy factor has small or even not significant impact on industrial aggregation, reflecting that the policy has not played the expected role, and policy support needs to be further intensified.

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“…The higher level relationships were analysed between the 2017-2021 National Development Plan and SDGs 2 and 12, and those at a lower level between them and the current agricultural policy (Figure 1); the Nvivo program (https://www.qsrinternational.com/nvivo-qualitative-data-analysis-software/home) was applied as a search engine for keywords related to each target of the objectives (Table 1), but no sentences or paragraphs were used as happens with other programs [25]. The following current laws related to access to basic productive resources and those associated with the production, quality, and marketing model of products were chosen for the analysis, which have an ´organic´ label due to their high importance in food and rural development issues.…”

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The Alignment between Agricultural Policy and the SDGs: Zero Hunger and Responsible Production and Consumption in Ecuador

Requelme¹,

Afonso²

2021

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This study reviews how policy and agricultural laws relate to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2 and 12, sustainability and rural development, in Ecuador. Policy aligns itself with goals 2 in terms of increased productivity and income (target 2,3) to interna-tional markets (targets 2b y 2c), rural infrastructure, research, agricultural extension and technological development (target 2a), agrobiodiversity and traditional knowledge (target 25). It is related with SDG 12 to sustainable production and consumption targets 12.1, 12.2 and 12a). Laws highlight public procurement, research, seeds, and efficient resource management through sustainable practices. It is concluded that policy is aligned with SDGs 2 and 12 but is necessary to establish others that surpass the emphasis on produc-tivity towards export markets that leave AFC production and achieve a transition to sus-tainable production and consumption. The study of laws indicates that it is necessary to strengthen local governance for food sovereignty, including the peasant sectors within the framework of existing laws with participation in spaces of debate and formulation of ac-tions.

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A comparative analysis of governance and leadership in agricultural development policy networks

Cited by 44 publications

References 44 publications

New Approach to Sustainability in Rural Areas Comprising Agriculture Practices–Analysis of Demonstration Farms in the Czech Republic

New Approach to Sustainability in Rural Areas Comprising Agriculture Practices–Analysis of Demonstration Farms in the Czech Republic

Analysis of the temporal and spatial evolution characteristics and influencing factors of China’s herbivorous animal husbandry industry

The Alignment between Agricultural Policy and the SDGs: Zero Hunger and Responsible Production and Consumption in Ecuador

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