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Sustainable Value Chains – Framework Conditions for Successful Cooperation
A student project analysed an organic food value chain by interviewing stakeholders including production, processing and retailing as well as politics ...
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Collective Action for Biodiversity – Update from Innovation Lab NRW
The Innovation Lab North Rhine-Westphalia (IL NRW) focuses on developing the theoretical underpinnings of a concept featuring the collective approach for ...
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Knowing farmers’ motives helps to strategically address participation
What are the most important motives for farmers to participate in collective schemes? Researchers from Leibniz Centre of Agricultural Landscape Research ...
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Testing MCDM Model to Evaluate the Potential of the Collective Approach
The Multi-criteria Decision Making (MCDM) method is an excellent tool to assess different options by evaluating conflicting criteria in order to ...
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Farmers’ Perceptions of Payment by Results scheme in UK
Earlier this year, researchers from the UK ‘Contracts2.0’ team spent some time working with Natural England and the Yorkshire Dales National ...
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Implementing innovative contract models – results from the Policy Delphi
The second round of our online Policy Delphi study – focusing on opportunities to implement innovative contract models in the current ...
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Collective AES – exploring Dutch farmers’ motivation to participate
To address the degradation of the natural environment, agri-environment schemes (AES) have been designed within the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy ...
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Economic experiments for improving agricultural policy
The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is constantly evolving. Its evaluation tools must develop concurrently. Including economic experiments in the ...
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Policy Innovation Labs – The new age of policymaking?
The development of innovative approaches to strengthen the provision of public goods is at the heart of Contracts2.0. The corresponding ...
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