مورد إلكتروني
Driving the tractor into a greener direction
| العنوان: | Driving the tractor into a greener direction |
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| المؤلفون: | Evers, Y. |
| بيانات النشر: | Utrecht University 2019 |
| تفاصيل مُضافة: | Runhaar, Hens (Thesis Advisor) |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Electronic Resource |
| مستخلص: | The traces of erosion are visible throughout the Spanish province of Andalusia, often carving out beautiful valleys and so providing a beautiful sight for tourists traveling the mountainous landscape. However, soil erosion threatens farmers’ livelihoods, as they see their income decrease throughout the years, and the region watches its tax revenues partially disappear by cleaning local waterways of sediments and excessive nutrients. Andalusia suffers from one of the highest erosion rates throughout the EU, but is also the source of a large portion of agricultural produce grown within the Union. Suggesting policy instruments to address this common resource pool problem with governance solutions is one of the main goals of this thesis. Soil governance is a complex research field however. Instead of reviewing the literature on conservation agriculture governance to identify “effective and efficient” policy instruments, this research starts “further back”. This step ‘back’, to eventually suggest better and more locally relevant policy solutions, entailed researching Andalusian farmers’ motivations to implement or not, or, in other words, drivers and barriers that influence a farmer’s choice to adopt conservation agricultural practices. Many different kinds of these practices are implemented by farmers worldwide, but this research will limit itself to the researching the uptake of 8 anti-erosive Best Management Practices (from here on ‘BMP’s’). To find these drivers and barriers, a survey was constructed and distributed among farmers in Andalusia and subsequently analyzed, to answer the main research question: “What governance modes lead to a higher implementation rate of Best Management Practices on arable land by farmers in Andalusia, Spain?”. Preliminary results indicated that the most popular BMP’s among respondents are rotation with cereals, permanent grasslands and conservation tillage. Farmers teaching themselves the skills needed to implement the practices on the |
| مصطلحات الفهرس: | Master Thesis, Student Thesis |
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| الإتاحة: | Open access content. Open access content CC-BY-NC-ND Open Access |
| ملاحظة: | en_US |
| أرقام أخرى: | QGJ oai:studenttheses.uu.nl:20.500.12932/35307 https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/35307 1362660581 |
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| رقم الأكسشن: | edsoai.on1362660581 |
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