‘You can't be green if you're in the red’: Local discourses on the production-biodiversity intersection in a mixed farming area in south-eastern Australia

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Limiting biodiversity loss is a global challenge, especially in areas where biodiversity conservation conflicts with intensifying agricultural production. The different views and preferences about how to protect biodiversity, and why it is valuable, make concerted action to improve conservation outcomes difficult. Exploring different discourses that represent shared understandings of an issue or a topic can help to understand this plurality. We focused on a mixed farming area in south-eastern Australia where intensive agricultural production is linked to an ongoing loss of biodiversity. Using the Q-methodology, we conducted 94 interviews with people who may influence biodiversity outcomes in farming landscapes to explore shared understandings of the farming-biodiversity intersection. We also sought to understand how such discourses relate to perceptions of biodiversity in agricultural contexts and if they are associated with particular stakeholder groups. We identify four discourses on the relationship between farming and biodiversity, the farmers’ role and responsibility for biodiversity, and the preferred approaches to improve biodiversity outcomes. Our findings highlight how perceptions of biodiversity by agricultural stakeholders varied substantially between discourses, but that discourses were not significantly associated with stakeholder group. We discuss our findings in the context of policy development and broader governance. We consider how a balanced mix of policy instruments, including market and community-based instruments, can better engage with contrasting understandings of the production-biodiversity intersection. To improve biodiversity outcomes, it is necessary to integrate a plurality of biodiversity values and ensure a broad and balanced set of policy instruments that supports land managers as stewards of the land.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer106306
ZeitschriftLand Use Policy
Jahrgang121
ISSN0264-8377
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PublikationsstatusErschienen - 01.10.2022

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We would like to thank all interview participants and the seven persons who volunteered to test the interviews during the piloting phase of the research. We express our gratitude to the Muttama Creek Landcare Group for supporting the research project and for integrating TS into their activities. We highly appreciate the conversations with key informants and the Muttama Creek Landcare Group during the scoping trip and fieldwork which played an important role in shaping our research approach. We thank Michelle Young for her valuable advice, feedback and support during the research project. We also thank Laura Helena Alves Fortes Martins and Anna Sophie Lagies for their work on the transcripts of the interviews and Katja Gengenbach for an initial review of the available literature. Finally, we would like to thank Mitchell Bowden from Riverina Local Land Services for providing data for the map. The research was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Australian National University protocol number 2019_913. This work was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation ; project number 407710220). Ben Scheele and David Lindenmayer were supported by the Sustainable Farms initiative at The Australian National University.

Funding Information:
We would like to thank all interview participants and the seven persons who volunteered to test the interviews during the piloting phase of the research. We express our gratitude to the Muttama Creek Landcare Group for supporting the research project and for integrating TS into their activities. We highly appreciate the conversations with key informants and the Muttama Creek Landcare Group during the scoping trip and fieldwork which played an important role in shaping our research approach. We thank Michelle Young for her valuable advice, feedback and support during the research project. We also thank Laura Helena Alves Fortes Martins and Anna Sophie Lagies for their work on the transcripts of the interviews and Katja Gengenbach for an initial review of the available literature. Finally, we would like to thank Mitchell Bowden from Riverina Local Land Services for providing data for the map. The research was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Australian National University protocol number 2019_913. This work was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation; project number 407710220). Ben Scheele and David Lindenmayer were supported by the Sustainable Farms initiative at The Australian National University.

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