Divergent agricultural development pathways across farm and landscape scales in Europe: Implications for sustainability and farmer satisfaction

被引：1

作者：

Helfenstein, Julian ^{[1
,2
]}

Hepner, Samuel ^{[1
,3
]}

Kreuzer, Amelie ^{[1
]}

Achermann, Gregor ^{[3
]}

Williams, Tim ^{[4
]}

Burgi, Matthias ^{[3
,5
]}

Debonne, Niels ^{[4
]}

Dimopoulos, Thymios ^{[6
]}

Diogo, Vasco ^{[5
]}

Fjellstad, Wendy ^{[7
]}

Garcia-Martin, Maria ^{[5
]}

Hernik, Jozef ^{[8
]}

Kizos, Thanasis ^{[9
]}

Lausch, Angela ^{[10
,11
]}

Levers, Christian ^{[4
]}

Liira, Jaan ^{[12
]}

Mohr, Franziska ^{[3
,5
]}

Moreno, Gerardo ^{[13
]}

Pazur, Robert ^{[5
,14
]}

Salata, Tomasz ^{[8
]}

Schupbach, Beatrice ^{[2
]}

Swart, Rebecca ^{[4
]}

Verburg, Peter H. ^{[4
,5
]}

Zarina, Anita ^{[15
]}

Herzog, Felix ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Agroscope, Agroecol & Environm, Zurich, Switzerland

[2] Wageningen Univ & Res, Soil Geog & Landscape Grp, Wageningen, Netherlands

[3] Univ Bern, Inst Geog, Bern, Switzerland

[4] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Inst Environm Studies IVM, Environm Geog Grp, Amsterdam, Netherlands

[5] Swiss Fed Res Inst WSL, Land Change Sci Res Unit, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

[6] MedINA, Mediterranean Inst Nat & Anthropos, Athens, Greece

[7] NIBIO Norwegian Inst Bioecon Res, As, Norway

[8] Agr Univ Krakow, Dept Land management & Landscape Architecture, Krakow, Poland

[9] Univ Aegean, Dept Geog, Mitilini, Greece

[10] UFZ Helmholtz Ctr Environm Res, Dept Computat Landscape Ecol, Leipzig, Germany

[11] Humboldt Univ, Geog Dept, Berlin, Germany

[12] Univ Tartu, Inst Ecol & Earth Sci, Tartu, Estonia

[13] Univ Extremadura, Forest Res Grp, Plasencia, Spain

[14] Slovak Acad Sci, Inst Geog, Bratislava, Slovakia

[15] Univ Latvia, Dept Geog, Riga, Latvia

来源：

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS | 2024年 / 86卷

基金：

瑞士国家科学基金会;

关键词：

Agricultural transformation; Transition pathways; Archetype analysis; Farmer wellbeing; Land abandonment; Farmer livelihoods; BIODIVERSITY; PRODUCTIVISM;

D O I：

10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102855

中图分类号：

X [环境科学、安全科学];

学科分类号：

08 ; 0830 ;

摘要：

Current agricultural practices in Europe are increasingly aggravating societal and environmental safety concerns. This creates social and regulatory pressures on farmers, which can lead to declining material and social status of farmers, farmer discontent, and anti -regulation protests. These tensions are rooted in conflicting value systems for agricultural development, which can range from productivist pathways (i.e. valuing production above all else) to increasing multifunctionality pathways (i.e. valuing agriculture for its contribution to multiple economic, environmental and societal needs). It is largely unknown to what degree individual farms and agricultural landscapes are transitioning towards increasing productivism or multifunctionality in practice. Here, we mapped landscape changes and interviewed farmers (n = 274) to examine the diversity of agricultural development pathways in 17 study sites across Europe over the last 20 years (2000 -2020). We also assessed the associations between the development pathways and farmers ' perceptions of socio-economic outcomes, namely job satisfaction, societal valuation, and economic performance. Farm -level development was largely aligned with productivist pathways, while landscape -level changes aligned more closely with an increasing multifunctionality pathway. Farmers on pathways of increasing multifunctionality did not perceive improved outcomes on livelihood indicators as compared to productivist farmers. Furthermore, farms on increasing multifunctionality pathways were concentrated in sites with very high management intensities that face strong pressure from environmental regulations, as well as low -intensity, mountainous sites, where opportunities for intensification are limited. These results suggest that current pathways that increase multifunctionality arise mostly by necessity. Successful agricultural transformation will therefore require policy to create enabling environments that provide socioeconomic benefits for farmers to increase multifunctionality, and a civil society and market conditions that value sustainable agriculture.

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