Co-producing agricultural policy with beekeepers: Obstacles and opportunities
Co-producing agricultural policy with beekeepers: Obstacles and opportunities
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DOI：
10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106603
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发表时间：
2023-03-02
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7.1
通讯作者：
Maderson，Siobhan
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作者：
Maderson，Siobhan
人们普遍认为，占主导地位的农业做法是导致蜜蜂和其他传粉媒介严重减少的众多因素之一。改善传粉媒介和其他物种的农业环境是当务之急的生态优先事项。养蜂人长期以来一直站在认识蜜蜂面临的农业和环境挑战的最前沿。其中许多也影响其他授粉媒介。随着英国朝着脱欧后的农业政策迈进，这应该是养蜂人的观察和担忧得到认可的绝佳时机，并有助于建立农民和土地管理者确保提供“公共产品”的体系。然而，有证据表明，有效共同制定确保传粉媒介福祉的农业政策存在重大障碍。本文基于英国各地长期养蜂人的档案和访谈数据。养蜂人过去与农业和传粉媒介健康政策利益相关者接触的经验凸显了有效共同制定政策的重大障碍。根据科学和政治上公认的认识论类别，养蜂人的经验观察通常被视为轶事和无关知识。农业和土地管理领域的多个利益相关者有着相反的优先事项，并且获得权力的机会不平等。这对政府克服界限和共同制定可行政策的努力提出了重大挑战。国际上，已经采取了重大步骤将混合知识及其相关价值体系纳入环境治理。制定承认并纳入多种形式的证据和亲环境价值观的农业政策，对于英国脱欧后成功的专注于环境土地管理、公共产品和自然多重价值的农业体系来说是必要的。
Dominant agricultural practices are widely recognised as one of many factors leading to severe declines in honey bees and other pollinators. Improving the agri-environment for pollinators and other species is an urgent ecological priority. Beekeepers have long been at the forefront of recognising agricultural and environmental challenges to their bees; many of these also impact other pollinators. As the UK moves towards a post-Brexit agricultural policy, this should be an excellent time for beekeepers’ observations and concerns to be recognised, and contribute to a system where farmers and land managers ensure the delivery of ‘public goods’. However, evidence suggests significant obstacles to effectively co-producing agricultural policy that ensures pollinator wellbeing. This paper is based on archival and interview data on long-term beekeepers throughout the UK. Beekeepers’ past experience of engaging with agricultural, and pollinator health policy stakeholders highlights significant obstacles to effective co-production of policy. Beekeepers’ experiential observations are commonly dismissed as anecdotal, and subsequently irrelevant knowledge, according to scientifically and politically acknowledged epistemological categories. Multiple stakeholders in agriculture and land management have opposing priorities, and unequal access to power. This presents significant challenges to government efforts to overcome boundaries and co-produce actionable policy. Internationally, significant steps have been made to incorporate hybrid knowledge, and its associated value systems into environmental governance. Developing agricultural policy which acknowledges and incorporates multiple forms of evidence and pro-environmental values is necessary for a successful post-Brexit agricultural system focused on Environmental Land Management, public goods, and multiple values of nature.