TY  - JOUR
U1  - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
A1  - Hirsch, Darya
A1  - Turck, Angela
A1  - Terlau, Wiltrud
T1  - Institutional Settings Surrounding Agriculture and Biodiversity: Challenges, Potentials and Obstacles of a Contract-based Nature Protection Scheme in the Rhine-Sieg District of Germany
JF  - International Journal on Food System Dynamics
N2  - Contract-based nature protection schemes are a voluntary mechanism, with a limited contract duration, that aim to raise the acceptance of biodiversity conservation practices in agriculture among farmers and other land users. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the institutional settings of contract-based nature protection based on the– “Institutions of Sustainability” (IoS) framework in the German Rhine-Sieg district, and to outline the way in which policy measures should be designed to encourage farmers to participate in contract-based nature protection programmes. This was achieved by answering research questions to identify the challenges, potentials and obstacles of a contract-based nature protection scheme in different “sub-arenas” as defined in the IoS framework. Qualitative research methods were used as the methodology. The analysis shows that main constraints for sufficient implementation of contract-based nature protection schemes are the limited consideration of the impact of climate change during the contract period, the limited consideration of regional conditions as regards the measures taken on the ground and an inflexible contract duration.
KW  - Agri-environment schemes
KW  - Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES)
KW  - institutional analysis
KW  - Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework
KW  - Institutions of Sustainability (IoS) framework
Y1  - 2022
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-61504
SN  - 1869-6945
SS  - 1869-6945
U6  - https://doi.org/10.18461/ijfsd.v13i1.A3
DO  - https://doi.org/10.18461/ijfsd.v13i1.A3
VL  - 13
IS  - 1
SP  - 30
EP  - 45
S1  - 16
PB  - CentMA
ER  -