Bedrijfsopties die bijdragen aan kringlooplandbouw : Beoordeeld door melkvee-, varkens- pluimveehouders, glastuinbouwers en akkerbouwers

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Karel de Greef, Geert van der Peet en Saskia Visser voor hun bijdrage aan dit onderzoek. Dit rapport is gratis te downloaden op https://doi.org/10.18174/547164 of op www.wur.nl/economic-research (onder Wageningen Economic Research publicaties). Dit onderzoek is door Wageningen Economic Research uitgevoerd in opdracht van en gesubsidieerd door het ministerie van Landbouw, Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit, in het kader van het Beleidsondersteunend onderzoeksthema 'Transitie naar Duurzaam en Gezond Voedselsysteem' (BO-43-001.01-007).

Blind Spot for Pioneering Farmers? Reflections on Dutch Dairy Sustainability Transition

“…We expect that achieving sustainability innovations and adaption for these farms is challenging because these changes are mostly about replacing existing practices that currently work well for the farmer but are less sustainable. These farmers will probably not invest spontaneously in new farm practices and/or technologies that offer better sustainability performance while offering less or no benefits to the farmer such as labor savings, higher income, increased production, or a reduction of risks for animal and plant health [16]. This is rather problematic from a sustainability transition perspective.…”

“…Famers are paid for the amounts of harvest they produce, which stimulates dairy farmers to produce maximum liters of milk per cow and/or hectare instead of producing milk in an environmentally friendly way [2]. So, in the current international dairy market, it is extremely challenging, and some might say unrealistic, to reach a state where mainstream dairy farms produce according to the vision of Dutch circular agriculture in which both ecological and economic results are achieved [16].…”

“…In the Netherlands, extensification of dairy farms, and making them nature-inclusive, is part of the current circular agriculture policy vision of Dutch government. However, this is unappealing or unrealistic for many dairy farmers due to a lack of available land, high land prices, depts of prior investments and the additional labor that nature-inclusive dairy farming might require [15][16][17]. Sustainability transition research questions how to achieve more sustainable production and consumption systems despite all the dynamics and circumstances that hamper this [2].…”