Landscape care paradoxes: Swedish landscape care arrangements in a European context

Wästfelt, Anders; Saltzman, Katarina; Berg, Elisabeth Gräslund; Dahlberg, Annika

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.03.004

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“…One of the most successful strategies for workers during the transition was to return to family holdings in the countryside. This was possible because Romanian agriculture was never collectivized, and because of the survival of social institutions that kept family ties strong and enabled the transmission of place-based agricultural knowledge to new farmers (Wästfelt et al 2012).…”

Section: Bio-cultural Refugia and The Value Of Spatial Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Bio-cultural refugia—Safeguarding diversity of practices for food security and biodiversity

Barthel

Crumley

Svedin

2013

Global Environmental Change

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Food security for a growing world population is high on the list of grand sustainability challenges, as is reducing the pace of biodiversity loss in landscapes of food production. Here we shed new insights on areas that harbor place specific social memories related to food security and stewardship of biodiversity. We call them Bio-cultural refugia. Our goals are to illuminate how bio-cultural refugia store, revive and transmit memory of agricultural biodiversity and ecosystem services, and how such social memories are carried forward between people and across cohorts. We discuss the functions of such refugia for addressing the twin goals of food security and biodiversity conservation in landscapes of food production.The methodological approach is first of its kind in combining the discourses on food security, social memory and biodiversity management. We find that the rich biodiversity of many regionally distinct cultural landscapes has been maintained through a mosaic of management practices that have co-evolved in relation to local environmental fluctuations, and that such practices are carried forward by both biophysical and social features in bio-cultural refugia including; genotypes, artifacts, written accounts, as well as embodied rituals, art, oral traditions and self-organized systems of rules. Combined these structure a diverse portfolio of practices that result in genetic reservoirs -source areas -for the wide array of species, which in interplay produce vital ecosystem services, needed for future food security related to environmental uncertainties, volatile financial markets and large scale conflicts. In Europe, processes related to the large-scale industrialization of agriculture threaten such bio-cultural refugia. The paper highlights that the dual goals to reduce pressures from modern agriculture on biodiversity, while maintaining food security, entails more extensive collaboration with farmers oriented toward ecologically sound practices.

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Section: Bio-cultural Refugia and The Value Of Spatial Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Bio-cultural refugia—Safeguarding diversity of practices for food security and biodiversity

Barthel

Crumley

Svedin

2013

Global Environmental Change

166

106

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“…This process of modernisation was actively stimulated by the Dutch government, showing an example of how the different aspects of the socio-material context interact (Lowe et al 1993;Ploeg 2003;Wals et al 2012;Grin 2012). The success of this modernisation of agricultural production also created an antithesis, as developments in farm practices had a negative impact on environmental quality, landscape values and biodiversity (Knickel 1990;RIVM 2002;Marsden 2003;Yakovleva and Flynn 2004;Wiskerke and Roep 2007;Primdahl and Kristensen 2011;Wästfelt et al 2012). The relation of the farm with its socio-material context changed, as a result of agricultural modernisation, because it loosened the connection between product, production and location.…”

Section: Introduction: Farm Development In Relation To Its Contextmentioning

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“…This process was described as the dis-connecting, dis-embedding and dis-entwining of food production (Wiskerke 2009). Another development in the socio-material context of the farm is the changing societal demand of rural areas that easily raises tensions with the predominant scale enlargement strategy in farming (Wästfelt et al 2012), especially in regions with high natural-or cultural-historical value, or in regions that are close to urban areas. In many places, farmers are expected to develop into 'rural entrepreneurs' , incorporating environmental and countryside management into their farm practices.…”

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“…This change requires farmers to assume multiple new roles whilst shifting some of the effort and resources away from the task of food production (Atterton and Ward 2007). The shift of efforts and resources required to fulfil these new functions is another reason for tensions in the decision-making process on farm development (Wästfelt et al 2012). Understanding the process behind this tension on the level of the individual farm is important, as the tensions affect decision-making in farm development.…”

Section: Introduction: Farm Development In Relation To Its Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The farmer needs to fulfil different roles in the business as do small business owners (Chandler and Jansen 1992) and the farmer personally learns from the experience of running the business (Atherton 2003). In the context of the case study, the farmers operate in a context with high natural and cultural-historical value and are confronted by changing societal demand on rural and farm development, a context that is the case for many farmers (Wästfelt et al 2012). The farmer needs to find a strategy to counter the cost price squeeze that is the result from increasing costs of resources and a decrease in the price of products (Ploeg 2000).…”

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Farmers’ perception of opportunities for farm development

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. This interest is in both the process of making strategic decisions and in how this is affected by the relation of the farm with its context. In the process of making strategic decisions, farmers aim to secure a family farm income and to secure the continuity of the farm business. In the reiterative and continuing process of strategic decision-making, farmers aim to anticipate and balance the effect of developments within the context of the farm, with the needs and aims of the family farm. In this process the farmer relates in an implicit or explicit manner towards the dynamic and complex context, under which the farm operates. The farmers' decisions lead to (changes in) farm practices and these farm practices are embedded into the context in which the farm operates. Embedding of the farming practices, in turn, affects the context of the farm. When the farm affects the context, it is likely to also affect the opportunities for further farm development and future strategic decisions. This means that farm development is not isolated from, but closely related to, and affected by, the context, under which the farm operates.

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A Heritage Without Boundaries: Nature-Culture Synergies in and around Norwegian Protected Landscapes

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We address the question of nature-culture synergies in protected mountain landscapes with a specific focus on the Norwegian National Park of Hardangervidda. Fragile and complex ecosystems developed from long-lasting socio-ecological grazing processes that started approximately 4000 years ago in Scandinavia are facing manifold environmental challenges and societal issues that endanger both natural and cultural heritages. Our goals are to clarify the nature-culture synergies and relationships and investigate holistic management and preservation of natural and cultural values. Our results highlight an urgent need to develop holistic conservation frameworks and methodologies for protected landscapes that integrate cultural and natural heritages and enhance the potential of local communities to protect threatened semi-natural environments and experienced-based knowledge for the future.

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Landscape care paradoxes: Swedish landscape care arrangements in a European context

Cited by 25 publications

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Bio-cultural refugia—Safeguarding diversity of practices for food security and biodiversity

Bio-cultural refugia—Safeguarding diversity of practices for food security and biodiversity

Farmers’ perception of opportunities for farm development

A Heritage Without Boundaries: Nature-Culture Synergies in and around Norwegian Protected Landscapes

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