Subsidy Removal and Farm‐Level Stewardship in Northland

Bradshaw, Ben; Cocklin, Chris; Smit, Barry

doi:10.1111/j.1745-7939.1998.tb02074.x

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“…Previous studies indicate that without strong and enforced regulations, or effective regulatory or market incentives, landowners are willing to retain remnant native woody vegetation if it is located on land unsuitable for pasture (Bradshaw et al, 1998;Wilson, 1992), and/or when there is significant private net benefit (Bradshaw et al, 1998;Fairweather, 1996;Mead, 1995;Rauniyar & Parker, 1998;Underwood & Ripley, 2000;Vokoun et al, 2010). The results of this study indicate many farmers do not believe woody vegetation provides sufficient benefit to offset its costs, particularly on productive pasture land.…”

Section: Are the Resulting Woody Vegetation Network Significantly Comentioning

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“…Gyau et al, 2014;Underwood & Ripley, 2000;Vokoun, Amacher, Sullivan, & Wear, 2010). In New Zealand, studies indicate rangeland farmers value trees for sheltering stock, and in areas unsuitable for pasture (Bradshaw, Cocklin, & Smit, 1998;Wilson, 1992). A minority of farmers also value their aesthetic services (Fairweather, 1996), and appreciate their soil conservation services (Mead, 1995).…”

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Evaluation of a dairy agri-environmental programme for restoring woody green infrastructure

McWilliam

Fukuda

Møller

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International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

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Pastoral landscape woody vegetation provides ecosystem services, but potentially competes for space, light and nutrients that could provide additional farm production. A questionnaire determined the values and behaviours of New Zealand dairy farmers to evaluate voluntary agri-environmental programmes for restoring woody vegetation. Findings indicate the area is increasing, while the composition and configuration of networks are changing and redistributing. Farms with little are losing more, and those with more are gaining. Farmers are planting new areas to increase their public ecosystem services, but may not provide these services through planting and management. Barriers include insufficient private woody vegetation ecosystem services, and low rates of growth of native plants. Government incentive programmes are ineffective in overcoming barriers. Farmers may be motivated by stronger evidence of valued ecosystem services, information about their benefits and drawbacks and how to support services through planting and management. However, a targeted environmental stewardship scheme is required to overcome barriers to planting, with government and the dairy industry working together to develop and maintain a landscape-scaled woody vegetation network on private and public land. Such networks would build sustainability and resilience into dairy farming, leading to an equitably sharing of benefits and costs of their public ecosystem services. KEYWORDS

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Section: Are the Resulting Woody Vegetation Network Significantly Comentioning

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Evaluation of a dairy agri-environmental programme for restoring woody green infrastructure

McWilliam

Fukuda

Møller

et al. 2017

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

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“…There is a growing body of research on the environmental attitudes, values and practices of New Zealand farmers and other landowners (Bradshaw et al. 1998; Wilson 1992; Cocklin & Dorman 1994; Fairweather & Keating 1994; Jones et al.…”

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Remnants of the Waikato: Native forest survival in a production landscape

Jay

2005

New Zealand Geographer

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This paper addresses the issue of conservation of native biodiversity on privately owned farmland in New Zealand. Based on surveys of Waikato dairy farmers as exemplars of intensive agricultural practice, it examines factors that influence the survival of native forest on land with potential for commercial production. Results suggest that a significant proportion of Waikato dairy farmers regard native forest favourably, although the proportion of farmers who actively conserve their forest is small. Factors that assist the persistence of native forest on dairy farms include personal characteristics of the farmer, past accidents of history which have left forest remnants in place, and physical characteristics of the farm such as topography. While the conservation of native biodiversity within this intensively farmed landscape is strongly influenced by political economy pressures that encourage production, non-utilitarian motives such as aesthetic enjoyment and family heritage can serve to counter the production ethic.

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“…This is particularly problematic given the public good nature of many acts of environmental stewardship (Pierce 1996) and the significant reliance within community‐based resource‐management systems on volunteers, who are prone to burnout (Byron and Curtis 2001). These constraints do not preclude acts of stewardship, but they do make them more difficult to undertake, especially during periods of economic decline (Bradshaw et al . 1998).…”

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Questioning the credibility and capacity of community‐based resource management

Bradshaw

2003

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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This paper reviews and critiques a potential innovation in resource and environmental management as a means of stimulating further research and refinement. Given the perceived limitations of top‐down, centralized management of natural resources, calls for the devolution of authority for local resources to local communities have increasingly been expressed. Proponents of community‐based resource management argue that, situating decision‐making closer to the place of resource use and subjecting decision‐makers to the repercussions of their decisions creates the potential for more flexible and prudent resource management. Further, by empowering communities to develop their own strategies for local economic development, greater community stability may be achieved. However, neither of these potentials will be realized if the credibility and capacity of communities are assumed rather than interrogated. These hypothesized contingent conditions of effective community‐based resource management are described and illustrated based on two examples in western Canada in which communities have been empowered to determine the use of local resources: the siting of a hazardous‐waste treatment facility near the town of Swan Hills, Alberta; and the development of the Community Forest Pilot Project in British Columbia. These examples raise a series of concerns and questions that suggest a need for further, in‐depth investigation. Ultimately, by identifying barriers to effective community‐based resource management, a more refined model of this potentially innovative approach can be fostered. Cette dissertation étudie et critique une innovation potentielle quant à la gestion de l’environnement et des ressources dans le but de stimuler des recherches plus approfondies et d’affiner les résultats. Étant donné les limitations perçues d’une gestion centralisée et descendante des ressources naturelles, on demande de plus en plus fréquemment que les collectivités locales soient responsables de la gestion des ressources locales. Les partisans d’une gestion des ressources par les collectivités avancent qu’en rapprochant la prise de décision du lieu d’utilisation des ressources et en soumettant les décideurs aux répercussions de leurs décisions, on favorise potentiellement une gestion plus souple et plus prudente des ressources. De plus, en habilitant les collectivités à déterminer leurs propres stratégies de développement économique local, une plus grande stabilité des collectivités est possible. Toutefois, ni l’un ni l’autre de ces potentiels ne seront réalisés si l’on admet sans les mettre en question la crédibilité et la capacité de gestion de ces collectivités. Ces conditions contingentes d’une gestion efficace des ressources par les collectivités sont décrites et illustrées par deux exemples provenant de l’Ouest du Canada, où les communautés ont toute discrétion quant à l’utilisation des ressources locales : l’implantation d’un centre de traitement des déchets dangereux près de la ville de Swan Hills, dans l’Alberta, et l’exécution du ...

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Subsidy Removal and Farm‐Level Stewardship in Northland

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

Evaluation of a dairy agri-environmental programme for restoring woody green infrastructure

Evaluation of a dairy agri-environmental programme for restoring woody green infrastructure

Remnants of the Waikato: Native forest survival in a production landscape

Questioning the credibility and capacity of community‐based resource management

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