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Agency shifts in agricultural land governance and their implications for land degradation neutrality
Global Environmental Change ( IF 8.9 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 , DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102221
Niels Debonne , Jasper van Vliet , Graciela Metternicht , Peter Verburg

Given current land degradation trends, Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN, SDG Target 15.3) by 2030 could be difficult to attain. Solutions to avoid, reduce, and reverse land degradation are not being implemented at sufficiently large scales, pointing to land governance as the main obstacle. In this paper, we review dynamics in agricultural land governance, and the potential this may have to enable land degradation or provide solutions towards LDN. The literature reveals agency shifts are taking place, where value chain actors are given increasing decision-making power in land governance. These agency shifts are manifested in two interrelated trends: First, through agricultural value chain coordination, such as contract farming, value chain actors increasingly influence land management decisions. Second, international large-scale land acquisitions and domestic larger-scale farms, both instances of intensified direct involvement of value chain with land management, are overtaking significant areas of land. These new arrangements are associated with agricultural expansion, and are additionally associated with unsustainable land management due to absent landowners, short-term interests, and high-intensity agriculture. However, we also find that value chain actors have both the tools and business cases to catalyze LDN solutions. We discuss how governments and other LDN brokers can motivate or push private actors to deploy private governance measures to avoid, reduce, and reverse land degradation. Successful implementation of LDN requires refocusing efforts to enable and, where necessary, constrain all actors with agency over land management, including value chain actors.



中文翻译:

代理机构对农业土地治理的转变及其对土地退化中立的影响

考虑到当前的土地退化趋势,到2030年土地退化中立性(LDN,可持续发展目标15.3)可能难以实现。避免,减少和逆转土地退化的解决方案没有得到足够大的实施,这指出土地治理是主要障碍。在本文中,我们回顾了农业土地治理的动态,以及这可能导致土地退化或为土地退化国家提供解决方案的潜力。文献表明,代理机构正在发生变化,价值链参与者在土地治理中被赋予了越来越大的决策权。这些机构转移体现在两个相互关联的趋势中:首先,通过农业价值链的协调,例如合同农业,价值链参与者越来越多地影响土地管理决策。第二,国际大型土地收购和国内大型农场,都是价值链直接参与土地管理的两个实例,都在占领大量土地。这些新的安排与农业扩张有关,此外,由于缺少土地所有者,短期利益和高强度农业,还与不可持续的土地管理有关。但是,我们还发现,价值链参与者既具有催化LDN解决方案的工具,又具有商业案例。我们讨论政府和其他LDN经纪人如何激励或推动私人行为者采取私人治理措施,以避免,减少和扭转土地退化。要成功实施LDN,就需要重新调整工作重点,以使所有参与者和代理人在土地管理方面受到机构的约束,

更新日期:2021-01-16
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