Result-based payments as a tool to preserve the High Nature Value of complex silvo-pastoral systems: progress toward farm-based indicators

Pinto‐Correia, Teresa; Ferraz-de-Oliveira, Maria Isabel; Guimarães, Maria Helena; Sales-Baptista, Elvira; Pinto-Cruz, Carla; Godinho, Carlos; Santos, Ricardo Vieira

doi:10.5751/es-12973-270139

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“…Other processes have also highlighted the diversity of engagement moments and the importance of involving different institutions as central for success as well as for fairer and more equitable decisions (Giakoumi et al, 2018;Day et al, 2019;Scheŕéet al, 2021;Pinto-Correia et al, 2022). Yet, as Day (2017) highlighted, extensive public sessions can be less valuable than limited engagement sessions.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Co-design of a marine protected area zoning and the lessons learned from it

et al. 2022

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Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are a tool to safeguard marine natural systems, yet their effectiveness depends on how well they are integrated into the existing socioeconomic context. Stakeholder engagement in MPA design can contribute to increasing integration. This study focuses on the co-design of an MPA between researchers, public administration, the private sector, and non-governmental organizations. The proposed MPA is in Portugal and includes an area that is a hotspot for biodiversity and economic activities. This is the first MPA proposal in mainland Portugal co-designed using a participatory approach. This study highlights the steps of the zoning process and synthesizes the eight main lessons learned, useful for other cases, particularly for relatively small coastal MPAs with multiple socioeconomic activities. Three zoning proposals were developed and discussed within the participatory process. The proposals considered the best scientific and local knowledge available and were defined using ecological, socioeconomic, and shape-area guiding principles. In an iterative manner and following a participatory approach, compromises with stakeholders were achieved, and a final proposal, scientifically sound and socially accepted by most stakeholders, was delivered to the government. The final zoning plan will achieve ambitious conservation goals, including the largest fully protected area to be declared in mainland Portugal, while minimizing the impacts on the existing economic activities and promoting its sustainability. This process resulted in valuable lessons that may be applied elsewhere and guide future MPA implementation or rezoning of existing ones. These transdisciplinary and participatory processes can be time and resource-consuming but are vital for ensuring MPA effectiveness.

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confidence: 99%

Co-design of a marine protected area zoning and the lessons learned from it

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“…Several studies [25,32,35,73,99] have concluded that agri-environmental payments and other guidelines for management would be much more cost-effective if they more clearly addressed the grasslands that are most valuable and that are most in need of support for maintaining appropriate grazing. Some of the evaluation studies also emphasised that a large proportion of the payments went to farms in regions with the most intensive and productive agriculture, where grazing would be economically sustainable and where farmers, to a large extent, would manage the grasslands without such payments [25,32,73].…”

Section: Cost-effectiveness Of Policy Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Grazing by Cattle and Sheep for Semi-Natural Grasslands in Sweden

Glimskär,

Hultgren,

Hiron

et al. 2023

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Despite their importance for biodiversity and other ecosystem services, many semi-natural grasslands deteriorate or have even disappeared due to insufficient grazing and neglect. Preservation of grassland habitats depends on a good understanding of sustainable grazing management as well as effective agricultural policy measures that ensure long-term economic sustainability for the farmer. Through meta-evaluation and synthesis of previous investigations and discussion of scientific literature, we aimed to evaluate factors that determine the extent to which cattle and sheep in Sweden graze semi-natural grasslands instead of more productive land and what this means for biodiversity and sustainability. We also aimed to propose which practises and policy measures may be the most cost-effective to promote habitat quality and the sustainable use of grasslands. Results from a nationwide survey of Swedish farmers’ attitudes towards agri-environmental payment schemes are discussed in relation to farm characteristics and other factors influencing the use of cattle and sheep for sustainable grazing. This study supports recommendations by environmental economists that payments should be targeted more strongly at the most valuable grasslands, emphasising the need for a more detailed and nuanced framework for classifying grasslands in Europe. A comparison with independent estimates of the area of agricultural land from nation-wide, sample-based monitoring shows that the data from official statistics normally used for nationwide evaluations are partly biased and of insufficient quality, underscoring the need for more sophisticated and precise methods for monitoring both overall trends and detailed environmental effects related to the preservation of semi-natural grasslands.

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“…The specific characteristics of HNV farmland also need to be taken into account when developing processes to monitor the success of tailor-made support measures. Pinto-Correia et al (2022) worked with farmers in southern Portugal to identify farmbased indicators that could be used by both farmers and technical staff to assess the scale of benefits being achieved by results-based measures designed to maintain the montado silvo-pastoral system. The 10 field-based visual indicators that were produced have the potential to allow farmers to understand better how effective their management practices are being and, where necessary, adapt them accordingly.…”

Section: From Understanding To Evidence-driven Solutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%