Legitimacy construction within land-sparing and land-sharing practices and the consequences for biodiversity: Advocates of land-sparing and land-sharing in the Netherlands speak out
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2023-06-30
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Agriculture is the main driver of biodiversity loss. When the current decline of biodiversity will continue, the consequences for biodiversity will be devastating. Hence, we need to rethink our current food system. Two of the leading options for more sustainable agriculture are land-sharing and land-sparing. Both forms have different pathways, but both claim to be the answer. This thesis tried to get a better look on how legitimacy is being constructed in the land-sparing and land-sharing practices in the Netherlands. By gaining more knowledge on what factors make land-sparing and land-sharing legitimate in the eyes of actors that are active in this sector, the researcher tried to answer the research question: How is legitimacy being constructed in the land-sparing and land-sharing practices in the Netherlands and what are the consequences for the biodiversity? Taking a critical look at those methods could contribute to a good transition to a more sustainable food production system that also protects biodiversity. But whether land-sharing or land-sparing is adopted in the future, will not be determined by their scientific evidence bases. Instead, scholars argue that operationalizing either land-sparing or land-sharing will depend on political and ideological processes. A crucial driver of political acceptance is legitimacy.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen