Identifying necessary success conditions for the participation of farmers in agricultural nature conservation in Dutch agri-environmental schemes
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2022-06-06
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The state of biodiversity in the Netherlands is under tremendous pressure, caused by different activities and events such as fragmentation, urbanization and deterioration of habitats. In agricultural areas, this deterioration and degradation of the landscape and biodiversity have been visible in large monocultures and the disappearance of species and landscape elements which were common in the Dutch agricultural landscape. Voluntarily agri-environmental schemes, where farmers receive financial compensation in exchange for executing measures focused on agricultural nature conservation, are one of the instruments which try to protect biodiversity in agricultural sites. In the Netherlands, agricultural cooperatives are responsible for coordinating and executing the Dutch agrarisch natuur- en landschapsbeheer by the participating farmers. In this research, necessary success conditions in agricultural collectives and cooperatives with an above Dutch average participation are identified to gain insight into the differences between the participation rate in 47 cases. Based on the collected data, farmers’ motivation, legitimation, the role of the collective and a focus on meadow birds seem to influence the participation rate in Dutch ANLb positively.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen