Year: 2016
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Conservation in an agricultural spaceDo our agricultural landscapes hold the key to protecting our declining biodiversity?If they do, how would it be done?And who would pay?Would it be the landowner, or the general public (via the government)?These might sound like simple questions, but when you consider some of the environmental, social, and economic factors at play, it quickly becomes apparent that we are dealing with very complex issues.To illustrate this, consider these two relatively simple situations, both examples of efforts to conserve biodiversity on farmland in Australia.The first involves a run-down paddock from which the landowner has removed his sheep and sown a mixture of native trees and shrubs in strips several metres apart.In exchange for a stewardship payment of $50 per hectare per year, the farmer agrees to keep his sheep out of the paddock for five years.He gets half the payment at the beginning and the rest at the end of the initial five-year period, at which time grazing stock are permitted back into the paddock under a regime where sheep are allowed into the site in short bursts (called 'pulse grazing') for the last five years of the agreement.By this time, the This text is taken from Learning from agri-environment schemes in Australia: Investing in biodiversity and other ecosystem services on farms, edited by
Source: ANU Press eBooks
Authors: Dean Ansell, Fiona Gibson, David Salt
Institution: Australian National University
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2625012853