Hurley, P., Lyon, J., Hall, J. et al. (4 more authors) (2022) Co‐designing the environmental land management scheme in England : the why, who and how of engaging ‘harder to reach’ stakeholders. People and Nature, 4 (3). pp. 744-757.
Abstract
1. Agriculture around the world needs to become more environmentally sustainable to limit further environmental degradation and impacts of climate change.
2. Many governments try to achieve this through enrolling farmers in agri-environment schemes (AES) that encourage them to undertake conservation activities.
3. Studies show that AES can suffer from low uptake, meaning their environmental objectives remain unattained. To succeed for people and nature, policy-makers are increasingly adopting multi-actor approaches in the ‘co-design’ of AES to make them more attractive and inclusive of a full range of stakeholders, including ‘harder to reach’ farmers.
4. To address why some land managers (principally farmers) may be harder to reach in the context of co-designing England's new Environmental Land Management (ELM) approach, we undertook a quick scoping review of the literature, conducted 23 first-round and 24 s-round interviews with key informants, and held a workshop with 11 practitioners.
5. We outline why farming stakeholders may be harder to reach and how policy-makers can adjust the engagement process to make co-design more inclusive.
6. Based on the results, we make recommendations that could help policy-makers to design better, more inclusive AES that would attract greater uptake and increase their chances of success.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. People and Nature published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | ||||
Keywords: | agriculture act; Brexit; co-design; environmental land management; harder to reach; inclusive policy development; public goods | ||||
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield | ||||
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) | ||||
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Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield | ||||
Date Deposited: | 30 Mar 2022 11:19 | ||||
Last Modified: | 04 Nov 2022 16:19 | ||||
Status: | Published | ||||
Publisher: | Wiley | ||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10313 |