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Farmer engagement using a precision approach to watershed-scale conservation planning: What do we know?
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation ( IF 3.9 ) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 , DOI: 10.2489/jswc.2020.00072
P. Ranjan , A.S. Singh , M.D. Tomer , A.M. Lewandowski , L.S. Prokopy

Farmer engagement is an integral component of conservation planning, with increased emphasis on precision placement of conservation practices. Conservation planners are increasingly turning to tools like the Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework (ACPF)—a decision support tool (DST) that provides a menu-driven approach to conservation planning. Scholarship on human dimensions of precision conservation, also known as conservation targeting, has either examined farmers' general attitudes toward targeting, or when farmers are active participants in generating targeted practice options. However, less is known about farmers' perceptions of targeting when they receive targeted conservation options for fields they farm. With the goal of filling this knowledge gap, we present findings from semistructured in-depth interviews conducted with farmers in four watersheds in the US Midwest. Results suggest that farmers are receptive toward conservation options for their farms. Several factors influenced farmers' receptiveness toward site-specific conservation targeting, such as farmers having autonomy in the targeting process, and perceiving that the process had benefits such as field-scale validation of their natural resource concerns and its potential to encourage watershed thinking. Results also highlight the potential of conservation targeting in motivating conservation behavior. Recommendations for future conservation targeting include being mindful of the scale of the map and the amount of information presented, having boots on the ground, and engaging farmers one-on-one to motivate conservation behavior.

中文翻译:

使用精确方法进行流域规模保护规划的农民参与:我们知道什么?

农民参与是保护规划的一个组成部分,越来越强调保护实践的精确定位。保护规划者越来越多地转向农业保护规划框架 (ACPF) 等工具,这是一种决策支持工具 (DST),提供菜单驱动的保护规划方法。关于精准保护的人文维度的学术研究,也称为保护目标,要么研究了农民对目标的一般态度,要么是农民积极参与制定有针对性的实践选择。然而,当农民收到针对他们耕种的田地的有针对性的保护选择时,他们对目标的看法知之甚少。为了填补这一知识空白,我们展示了对美国中西部四个流域的农民进行的半结构化深度访谈的结果。结果表明,农民愿意为他们的农场采取保护措施。有几个因素影响了农民对特定地点保护目标的接受程度,例如农民在目标过程中拥有自主权,并认为该过程具有诸如对他们的自然资源问题进行现场规模验证及其鼓励流域思考的潜力等好处。结果还突出了保护目标在激发保护行为方面的潜力。对未来保护目标的建议包括注意地图的比例和显示的信息量,在地面上穿靴子,以及与农民一对一地激励保护行为。
更新日期:2020-01-01
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