Direct Payment Strategies on Dutch Farmland
Nature on Dutch farmland is under threat from intensive farming practices. The conventional strategy for nature conservation by farmers is to restrict farming intensity and compensate farmers for production losses. An alternative is to pay farmers for nature on their land, as a reward for the nature...
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ftvirginiatec:oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/66978 2023-11-12T04:27:50+01:00 Direct Payment Strategies on Dutch Farmland Breeding birds as a farm product: Direct payment in the Netherlands Musters, K. de Graaf, H. ter Keurs, W. Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebase The Netherlands 2002 application/vnd.ms-powerpoint http://hdl.handle.net/10919/66978 en_US eng http://epp.gsu.edu/pferraro/special/SBCMustersetalAbstract.pdf http://epp.gsu.edu/pferraro/special/scb2002.htm 2478 Presented at "Direct Payments as an Alternative Approach to Conservation Investment: A Symposium at the 16th Annual Meetings of the Society for Conservation Biology," Canterbury, England, 15 July 2002 2478_Musters2002_Dutch_farm_direct_pay.ppt http://hdl.handle.net/10919/66978 In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Wildlife Payments for environmental services Conservation strategy Conservation Agricultural ecosystems Livestock Dairy farming Meadowbirds Breeding success Direct payments Ecosystem Farm/Enterprise Scale Presentation Text 2002 ftvirginiatec 2023-10-30T09:41:27Z Nature on Dutch farmland is under threat from intensive farming practices. The conventional strategy for nature conservation by farmers is to restrict farming intensity and compensate farmers for production losses. An alternative is to pay farmers for nature on their land, as a reward for the nature 'product'. Results of experiments on modern, intensive dairy farms with this scheme are encouraging. Breeding success of meadow birds is significantly higher where farmers are paid for clutches than where they are not (breeding success Lapwing [Vanellus vanellus]: 64.7% on paid farms, 48.2% on non-paid farms; Black-tailed Godwit [Limosa limosa]: 63.1% paid, 39.3% non-paid). The system proves to be less expensive than conservation based on compensating for income losses (paying for clutches costs 40 Euro per clutch, compensating for income losses costs 100-400 Euro per clutch). Farmers are enthusiastic and the system builds cooperation between farmers and conservationists, because they share targets. However, effects on meadow bird populations could not yet be detected. A recent study suggested also low effectiveness of conventional agricultural nature conservation on populations, leading to a debate in Dutch papers. This debate is recapitulated and conclusions for direct payment strategies are drawn. PES-1 (Payments for Environmental Services Associate Award) Conference Object Vanellus vanellus black-tailed godwit Limosa limosa VTechWorks (VirginiaTech) |
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Nature on Dutch farmland is under threat from intensive farming practices. The conventional strategy for nature conservation by farmers is to restrict farming intensity and compensate farmers for production losses. An alternative is to pay farmers for nature on their land, as a reward for the nature 'product'. Results of experiments on modern, intensive dairy farms with this scheme are encouraging. Breeding success of meadow birds is significantly higher where farmers are paid for clutches than where they are not (breeding success Lapwing [Vanellus vanellus]: 64.7% on paid farms, 48.2% on non-paid farms; Black-tailed Godwit [Limosa limosa]: 63.1% paid, 39.3% non-paid). The system proves to be less expensive than conservation based on compensating for income losses (paying for clutches costs 40 Euro per clutch, compensating for income losses costs 100-400 Euro per clutch). Farmers are enthusiastic and the system builds cooperation between farmers and conservationists, because they share targets. However, effects on meadow bird populations could not yet be detected. A recent study suggested also low effectiveness of conventional agricultural nature conservation on populations, leading to a debate in Dutch papers. This debate is recapitulated and conclusions for direct payment strategies are drawn. PES-1 (Payments for Environmental Services Associate Award) |
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http://epp.gsu.edu/pferraro/special/SBCMustersetalAbstract.pdf http://epp.gsu.edu/pferraro/special/scb2002.htm 2478 Presented at "Direct Payments as an Alternative Approach to Conservation Investment: A Symposium at the 16th Annual Meetings of the Society for Conservation Biology," Canterbury, England, 15 July 2002 2478_Musters2002_Dutch_farm_direct_pay.ppt http://hdl.handle.net/10919/66978 |
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