Initiating agri‐environmental collaboration at landscape scale requires bridging structures, regional facilitators and addressing the expectations of actors
Abstract To increase the effectiveness of agri‐environmental schemes, innovative approaches that focus on the landscape scale beyond individual fields and farms are widely discussed and tested. Central to these approaches is collaboration between several farmers and other actors in agricultural land...
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| author | Stefan Schüler Isabelle Arimond Annika Hass Menko Koch Jule M. Huber Volker Ruwisch Manuel Bartens Tobias Plieninger Catrin Westphal |
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| description | Abstract To increase the effectiveness of agri‐environmental schemes, innovative approaches that focus on the landscape scale beyond individual fields and farms are widely discussed and tested. Central to these approaches is collaboration between several farmers and other actors in agricultural landscapes. The effectiveness of collaborative agri‐environmental initiatives is strongly related to the motivation of actors. Administrative and social issues might hamper actor decisions to join an initiative. Based on our experience in implementing a participatory landscape‐scale project in Germany, we raise the question in which ways actors can be motivated and empowered to participate in such initiatives and how collaborative approaches can stimulate and maintain the exchange of participants. We find that establishing bridging structures (for an equal exchange of ideas and experiences), identifying and involving regional facilitators (to promote the participation of farmers and other actors) and addressing the expectations of actors (e.g. regarding administrative burden) can jointly support the establishment of collaborative initiatives in agriculture. This is particularly relevant when local actors have little experience with joint measure implementation and institutional framework conditions for collaborative governance are limited or not provided. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-663d68b1432746a9b316b5f658303a312025-02-06T05:27:38ZengWileyPeople and Nature2575-83142025-02-017232032810.1002/pan3.10782Initiating agri‐environmental collaboration at landscape scale requires bridging structures, regional facilitators and addressing the expectations of actorsStefan Schüler0Isabelle Arimond1Annika Hass2Menko Koch3Jule M. Huber4Volker Ruwisch5Manuel Bartens6Tobias Plieninger7Catrin Westphal8Functional Agrobiodiversity & Agroecology, Department of Crop Sciences University of Göttingen Göttingen GermanyFunctional Agrobiodiversity & Agroecology, Department of Crop Sciences University of Göttingen Göttingen GermanyFunctional Agrobiodiversity & Agroecology, Department of Crop Sciences University of Göttingen Göttingen GermanyFunctional Agrobiodiversity & Agroecology, Department of Crop Sciences University of Göttingen Göttingen GermanySocial‐Ecological Interactions in Agricultural Systems, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development University of Göttingen Göttingen GermanyRound Table for Species Diversity City of Uslar Uslar GermanyLandvolk Northeim‐Osterode (Regional Farmers' Association) Einbeck GermanySocial‐Ecological Interactions in Agricultural Systems, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development University of Göttingen Göttingen GermanyFunctional Agrobiodiversity & Agroecology, Department of Crop Sciences University of Göttingen Göttingen GermanyAbstract To increase the effectiveness of agri‐environmental schemes, innovative approaches that focus on the landscape scale beyond individual fields and farms are widely discussed and tested. Central to these approaches is collaboration between several farmers and other actors in agricultural landscapes. The effectiveness of collaborative agri‐environmental initiatives is strongly related to the motivation of actors. Administrative and social issues might hamper actor decisions to join an initiative. Based on our experience in implementing a participatory landscape‐scale project in Germany, we raise the question in which ways actors can be motivated and empowered to participate in such initiatives and how collaborative approaches can stimulate and maintain the exchange of participants. We find that establishing bridging structures (for an equal exchange of ideas and experiences), identifying and involving regional facilitators (to promote the participation of farmers and other actors) and addressing the expectations of actors (e.g. regarding administrative burden) can jointly support the establishment of collaborative initiatives in agriculture. This is particularly relevant when local actors have little experience with joint measure implementation and institutional framework conditions for collaborative governance are limited or not provided. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10782actorsagri‐environmental schemesbottom‐upcollaborationgovernancelandscape scale |
| spellingShingle | Stefan Schüler Isabelle Arimond Annika Hass Menko Koch Jule M. Huber Volker Ruwisch Manuel Bartens Tobias Plieninger Catrin Westphal Initiating agri‐environmental collaboration at landscape scale requires bridging structures, regional facilitators and addressing the expectations of actors People and Nature actors agri‐environmental schemes bottom‐up collaboration governance landscape scale |
| title | Initiating agri‐environmental collaboration at landscape scale requires bridging structures, regional facilitators and addressing the expectations of actors |
| title_full | Initiating agri‐environmental collaboration at landscape scale requires bridging structures, regional facilitators and addressing the expectations of actors |
| title_fullStr | Initiating agri‐environmental collaboration at landscape scale requires bridging structures, regional facilitators and addressing the expectations of actors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Initiating agri‐environmental collaboration at landscape scale requires bridging structures, regional facilitators and addressing the expectations of actors |
| title_short | Initiating agri‐environmental collaboration at landscape scale requires bridging structures, regional facilitators and addressing the expectations of actors |
| title_sort | initiating agri environmental collaboration at landscape scale requires bridging structures regional facilitators and addressing the expectations of actors |
| topic | actors agri‐environmental schemes bottom‐up collaboration governance landscape scale |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10782 |
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