Public Goods and Farming

Gerrard, Catherine L; Smith, Laurence; Pearce, Bruce; Padel, Susanne; Hitchings, Roger A.; Measures, Mark; Cooper, N. J. P.

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4500-1_1

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“…The authors were responsible for adjustments to the tool and performed the assessments in Flanders, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. PGT, originally designed to assess the public goods provided by an organic farm in Great Britain (Table 1; Gerrard et al 2012), was adjusted to be more applicable EU wide to dairy farms. The resulting tool (Fig.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Gerrard et al (2011) describe PGT development, spurs, and activities. Gerrard et al (2012) report on the methodology, development, and feedback about PGT.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Triste et al (2014) conducted 12 interviews with the tool developers and researchers who implemented the tool to reveal lessons learned about the development process of MOTIFS. Through questionnaires, Gerrard et al (2012) obtained feedback from 12 farmers on the use of the PGT.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The PGT resulted from an increased interest amongst policy makers regarding farms providing a "public good" other than food production (Gerrard et al 2012). The goal setting occurred through a literature review and a stakeholder meeting involving researchers, agricultural advisers, and representatives from Natural England, an executive nondepartmental public body.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Key characteristics for tool choice in indicator-based sustainability assessment at farm level

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Debruyne²,

Triste³

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ABSTRACT. Although the literature on sustainability assessment tools to support decision making in agriculture is rapidly growing, little attention has been paid to the actual tool choice. We focused on the choice of more complex integrated indicator-based tools at the farm level. The objective was to determine key characteristics as criteria for tool choice. This was done with an in-depth comparison of 2 cases: the Monitoring Tool for Integrated Farm Sustainability and the Public Goods Tool. They differ in characteristics that may influence tool choice: data, time, and budgetary requirements. With an enhanced framework, we derived 11 key characteristics to describe differences between the case tools. Based on the key characteristics, we defined 2 types of indicator-based tools: full sustainability assessment (FSA) and rapid sustainability assessment (RSA). RSA tools are more oriented toward communicating and learning. They are therefore more suitable for use by a larger group of farmers, can help to raise awareness, trigger farmers to become interested in sustainable farming, and highlight areas of good or bad performance. If and when farmers increase their commitment to on-farm sustainability, they can gain additional insight by using an FSA tool. Based on complementary and modular use of the tools, practical recommendations for the different end users, i.e., researchers, farmers, advisers, and so forth, have been suggested.

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confidence: 99%

“…Gerrard et al (2011) describe PGT development, spurs, and activities. Gerrard et al (2012) report on the methodology, development, and feedback about PGT.…”

Section: Casesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Stakeholders' Feedbackmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Normative Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Key characteristics for tool choice in indicator-based sustainability assessment at farm level

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Debruyne²,

Triste³

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“…Therefore, M-Low is defined with a low input of fertilizers and M-High with a higher fertilizer input. The NPK-budgets were calculated based on farm gate inputs and outputs from an average farm with the same crop production and management using a NPK-budget tool from the Organic Research Center [36,37]. Both systems were assumed to have 20% green manure (red clover) in their crop rotation.…”

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Evaluating the Sustainability of a Small-Scale Low-Input Organic Vegetable Supply System in the United Kingdom

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Abstract:Resource use and environmental impacts of a small-scale low-input organic vegetable supply system in the United Kingdom were assessed by emergy accounting and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The system consisted of a farm with high crop diversity and a related box-scheme distribution system. We compared empirical data from this case system with two modeled organic food supply systems representing high-and low-yielding practices for organic vegetable production. Further, these systems were embedded in a supermarket distribution system and they provided the same amount of comparable vegetables at the consumers' door as the case system. The on-farm resource use measured in solar equivalent Joules (seJ) was similar for the case system and the high-yielding model system and higher for the low-yielding model system. The distribution phase of the case system was at least three times as resource efficient as the models and had substantially less environmental impacts when assessed using LCA. The three systems ranked differently for emissions with the high-yielding model system being the worst for terrestrial ecotoxicity and the case system the worst for global warming potential. As a consequence of being embedded in an industrial economy, about 90% of resources (seJ) were used for supporting labor and service.

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Sustainability Assessment: A Tool to Build Resilience in the Face of Future Crisis

Trigo

Marta-Costa

Fragoso

2022

Palgrave Studies in Cross-Disciplinary Business Research, in Association With EuroMed Academy of Business

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Public Goods and Farming

Cited by 37 publications

References 15 publications

Key characteristics for tool choice in indicator-based sustainability assessment at farm level

Key characteristics for tool choice in indicator-based sustainability assessment at farm level

Evaluating the Sustainability of a Small-Scale Low-Input Organic Vegetable Supply System in the United Kingdom

Sustainability Assessment: A Tool to Build Resilience in the Face of Future Crisis

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