Farmers' attitudes towards, and intentions to adopt, agroforestry on farms in lowland South-East and East England
Farmers' attitudes towards, and intentions to adopt, agroforestry on farms in lowland South-East and East England
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英格兰东南部低地和东英格兰农场的农民对农林业的态度和采用农林业的意图
DOI：
10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106668
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发表时间：
2023
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影响因子：
7.1
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Felton M
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作者：
Felton M
农林业（AF）是一种土地利用，将种植树木纳入同一块土地上的农作物和/或畜牧业生产。由于树木的覆盖和生长，AF有可能产生额外的产品，增强生物碳捕获和储存，减少土壤侵蚀和地表水径流，改善土壤结构和肥力。这些影响可能会提高农民的经济回报，同时将农业生产的土地损失降到最低。迄今为止，尽管人们意识到这些好处并增加了政策支持，但英国对AF的吸收很少。这表明，采用AF存在政策或市场发展尚未解决的障碍。这项研究旨在通过对2019年224名农民和土地所有者进行调查，确定这些障碍，沿着潜在的驱动因素，以进一步在英格兰东南部和东部低地采用AF，涵盖一系列农场规模和类型。在那些说他们可能考虑种植小面积AF的农民中，小树林和种植园是首选。如果提高到区域水平，这可能会占总耕地面积的5%左右。一些人不愿意种植树木是出于经济原因，因为他们认为树木可能会干扰其他农场的运作。农民可能需要种植赠款和维护费，以帮助英国政府实现他们的林地种植目标，到2050年实现英国的净零目标。
Agroforestry (AF) is a land use that incorporates growing trees into agricultural crops and/or livestock production on the same piece of land. Due to tree cover and growth, AF has the potential to generate additional products, enhance biogenic carbon capture and storage, reduce soil erosion and surface water run-off and improve soil structure and fertility. These effects are likely to improve farmers’ financial return with minimal land loss to agricultural production. To date, there has been very little uptake of AF in the UK despite awareness of these benefits and increasing policy support. This suggests that there are barriers to adopting AF that policy, or market developments, have yet to address. This study set out to identify these barriers, along with potential drivers to further uptake of AF in South-East and East lowland England by means of a survey of 224 farmers and landowners in 2019 covering a range of farm sizes and types. Of those farmers who said they might consider planting small areas of AF, small woods and plantations were the preferred option. Silvo-arable AF was preferred to silvo-pastoral AF. If raised to the regional level, this could take up to some 5 % of the total farmed area. Financial reasons were behind some of the reluctance to plant, as was the view that trees might interfere with other farm operations. Farmers might need both planting grants and maintenance payments to help the UK Government reach their woodland planting goal to achieve the UK net-zero target by 2050.