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Policy Integration for Sustainable Agricultural Landscapes: Taking Stock of UK Policy and Practice

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This paper examines English experience with agri-environment schemes as a tool to promote sustainable landscapes. Evidence is drawn from policy and academic literature and selected recent research. Performance is assessed by reference to key notions of sustainable landscapes: spatial coherence, functionality and socio-cultural meaning. Whilst now widespread across England and well-supported by the environmental community, agri-environment schemes suffer from weaknesses in design and delivery including insensitivity to the evolving needs and concerns of farming businesses, the wider policy context, and thereby to the integrity of the landscape. An upland case study illustrates problems of poor communication and advice, narrow and inconsistent delivery, and under-recognition of social issues which together work against more sustainable agricultural landscapes. In the context of emerging EU and global challenges, a shift of emphasis towards systemic approaches, developed territorially in partnership with farmers, is needed. Emerging non-policy innovations and new initiatives may offer lessons for an improved approach .

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  • Janet Dwyer, 2014. "Policy Integration for Sustainable Agricultural Landscapes: Taking Stock of UK Policy and Practice," Landscape Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(2), pages 174-189, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:clarxx:v:39:y:2014:i:2:p:174-189
    DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2013.784245
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    1. Kheiri, Shaghayegh, 2015. "Identifying the Barriers of Sustainable Agriculture Adoption by Wheat Farmers in Takestan, Iran," International Journal of Agricultural Management and Development (IJAMAD), Iranian Association of Agricultural Economics, vol. 5(3), September.
    2. Thomas Vetter, 2022. "Co-producing better land management? An ethnographic study of partnership working in the context of agricultural diffuse pollution," Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, Springer, vol. 103(2), pages 117-141, June.
    3. Westerink, Judith & Jongeneel, Roel & Polman, Nico & Prager, Katrin & Franks, Jeremy & Dupraz, Pierre & Mettepenningen, Evy, 2017. "Collaborative governance arrangements to deliver spatially coordinated agri-environmental management," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 69(C), pages 176-192.

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