Agri-environmental collaboratives for landscape management in Europe

Prager, Katrin

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2014.10.009

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“…In this way the Deed anecdotally appears to shift the response along the continuum toward being a 'coordination' problem, but by broadening the set of stakeholders involved, paradoxically moved the system toward collaboration in other ways . In fact such paradoxes and complexity are mirrored in countless examples of environmental governance problems globally -from irrigation for agriculture (Edelenbos and van Meerkerk 2015;Hoogesteger 2015;Margerum and Robinson 2015), through to policies around environmental and industry trade-offs (Robinson et al 2011;Frey and Berkes 2014;Prager 2015). Across such examples, moving beyond the crude mantra of collaboration being a universal 'good' requires a better understanding of where collaboration sits alongside other forms of interaction.…”

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Balancing collaboration with coordination: Contesting eradication in the Australian plant pest and disease biosecurity system

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Abstract:The logistical challenge of coordinating natural resource management actions across large scales is typically complicated by the diversity of stakeholders' interests. Devising a plan is difficult. Getting diverse stakeholders to agree to and adhere to any logistical solution is harder still. Hence logistical solutions to large-scale problems involve a combination of coordination, and trust-building and contestation which are two key features of collaboration. We studied networks based on stakeholder participation in institutional responses to agricultural pest and disease incursions, where the spatial complexity of response is further challenged by the need to design and implement plans quickly in order to stop Balancing collaboration with coordination 331 the spread of incursions. Using data from the 2010 Australian myrtle rust incursion, we used novel statistical network methods which showed that policy forums at national scales, where higher-level decisions are made, were associated with denser overlapping stakeholder interactions signifying collaboration (bondingcapital, high transaction-costs). Our qualitative data unpacked this, showing how at times uncertainty in process and information is used by some stakeholders to contest decisions at national scales. We failed to find statistical evidence that at local scales, where plans are implemented more-or-less at face value, networks exhibited lower-transaction cost interactions associated with the socially cheaper task of coordination (bridging-capital, low transaction-costs). By identifying the mix of coordination and collaboration in networks for solving environmental problems, capacity building can be more targeted, and rules-of-behaviour can be developed that better fit the requirements of the diverse tasks involved.

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Balancing collaboration with coordination: Contesting eradication in the Australian plant pest and disease biosecurity system

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“…We assess LCAs' involvement in spatial targeting in three directions: targeting schemes to the most relevant areas, targeting schemes to the most relevant actors, and targeting schemes to the most relevant actors to overcome a single-farm approach in order to e.g., alleviate habitat fragmentation or to ensure AEM implementation at the landscape scale (AEMs have traditionally been directed to the individual holdings through contracts with individual farmers [48]. The single-farm approach of AEMs does not encourage the preservation of ecosystems at the landscape level but fosters individual and disconnected actions by individual farmers [49]).…”

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How Local Intermediaries Improve the Effectiveness of Public Payment for Ecosystem Services Programs: The Role of Networks and Agri-Environmental Assistance

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Large governmental payments for ecosystem services programs (PES) have frequently been criticized for their limited environmental effectiveness. The use of local intermediaries has been considered as one possibility for improving the environmental effectiveness of such programs. German Landcare Associations (LCAs) have been identified as one intermediary that holds the potential to positively influence the implementation of agri-environmental measures (AEMs). This paper empirically assesses the involvement of LCAs in the context of AEM implementation in Germany. An online questionnaire was distributed to all LCAs in Germany. In a first step, we examine if LCAs (1) provide social networks between stakeholders and (2) provide agri-environmental information and assistance to farmers. In a second step, the LCAs assess (3) their perception of how strongly their work influences farmers' participation in PES schemes and (4) if they pursue the spatial targeting of AEMs. In a third step, we relate the relative level of social networks and the provision of agri-environmental information and assistance to their stated influence on farmers' participation in and spatial targeting of AEMs. Finally we derive overall conclusions on how intermediaries can enhance the effectiveness of PES programs in general.

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“…In the current scheme, the CAP payments (including both Pillar I and Pillar II) are not adjusted for the operating costs on farms or for farm input use, and therefore inclusion of such support as a cost reduction or as an endogenous input is impossible. Moreover, a large proportion of the EU rural development support (Pillar II payments) is provided for generating common benefits, such as increasing social capital, sustainable management of the landscape, and environmental and economic benefits (Prager 2015), so considering payments as inputs that are not fully used for output creation can mean overestimation of input use. In other studies, subsidies are considered a traditional input (Zhengfei andLansink 2006, McCloud and or an endogenous input variable included in the production technology system and an exogenous variable explaining the inefficiency model (e.g.…”

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Pure and compensated efficiency of Swedish dairy farms

Manevska‐Tasevska

Rabinowicz

Surry

2016

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The compensatory effect of environmental subsidies for agri-environmental output constraints was evaluated through a comparative analysis observing the ‘pure’ efficiency, as a benchmark for prevailing production conditions, and the ‘compensated’ efficiency, as a proxy indicator of the compensation. An unbalanced data panel covering 3578 Swedish dairy farms in the period 2002-2012 was used. The analysis showed that in the study period, environmental farm support decreased the differences in farm revenue generated by agri-environmental output constraints in Sweden. However, the environmental support distribution did not succeed in meeting regional needs, so difficulties in farmers’ ability to generate output in southern and central forest and valley areas of Sweden were visible. Furthermore, the environmental agricultural support had only a partial subsidisation effect on ‘green’ farm management practices, with full compensation being achieved for organic and capital-extensive farming, whereas low livestock density farming was not sufficiently compensated. This analysis reveals incentives with policy implications for farm economic performance and provides direct input to future policy recommendations for environmental support allocation.

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Agri-environmental collaboratives for landscape management in Europe

Cited by 133 publications

References 35 publications

Balancing collaboration with coordination: Contesting eradication in the Australian plant pest and disease biosecurity system

Balancing collaboration with coordination: Contesting eradication in the Australian plant pest and disease biosecurity system

How Local Intermediaries Improve the Effectiveness of Public Payment for Ecosystem Services Programs: The Role of Networks and Agri-Environmental Assistance

Pure and compensated efficiency of Swedish dairy farms

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