Current intensive arable production systems tend to favour food production at the cost of the provision of other ecosystem services. In order to decrease the environmental impact and increase the variety and level of ecosystem services delivery, arable farmers would need to change their current practices. Governance arrangements aimed at such changes of behaviour not only include those from government, but also from institutions as developed bottom-up by farmers, other actors and networks. This paper investigates the role that governance arrangements developed by groups of farmers in intensive arable production systems in The Netherlands may have in changing agronomic practices that will improve the delivery of regulating and cultural ecosystem services. We evaluate the arrangements according to their potential effects on farmers and their social environment. Firstly, we consider the effect on farmers’ motivation and ability to change their practices. And secondly we consider the legitimation of, and demand for behavioural change by their social environment. The results suggest that social learning and land lease are promising supportive governance arrangements for behavioural change, and that private and public governance arrangements can be complementary.

当前的集约化耕种生产系统倾向于以提供其他生态系统服务为代价而偏爱粮食生产。为了减少对环境的影响并增加提供生态系统服务的种类和水平，可耕种的农民将需要改变其现行做法。针对这种行为变化的治理安排不仅包括政府的治理安排，还包括农民，其他行为者和网络自下而上建立的机构的治理安排。本文调查了荷兰集约化生产系统中的农民团体制定的治理安排在改变农艺习惯方面的作用，这将改善调节和文化生态系统服务的提供。我们根据这些安排对农民及其社会环境的潜在影响来评估这些安排。首先，我们考虑对农民动机和改变其实践能力的影响。其次，我们考虑他们的社会环境对行为改变的合法性和要求。结果表明，社会学习和土地租赁是有希望的行为改变的支持性治理安排，私人和公共治理安排可以互补。