The Sustainable Agricultural Transition: how to promote climate-beneficial measures with farmers in arable farmlands and within the livestock sector

农业占全球温室气体排放量的14.5%。包括欧盟成员国和英国在内的许多国家已承诺到2050年实现净零排放，作为向可持续农业过渡的一部分，有利于气候的农业措施将在实现这一目标方面发挥关键作用。在政府农业环境计划和直接支付的激励下，农民目前可以采取一系列有利于气候变化的措施。虽然已经对如何让农民参与这些计划进行了研究，但在如何具体地向农民推广有利于气候的措施方面，文献中存在明显的空白。由于新的农业政策和为满足英国的气候变化和可持续发展承诺而确定的更多研究的需要，本博士论文将围绕英国展开。因此，我将探讨农民对气候变化及其缓解的看法，以及农民决策的经济、社会、环境和政治层面。我的目标是找出改善减缓气候变化知识交流的方法。最后，利用环境政策中心现有的合作，我将对政策背景有一个详细的了解，并为环境土地管理和农业政策提出建议。这项研究的结果将有利于英国以及具有类似基础设施和农业系统的国家减缓气候变化。

Agriculture accounts for 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Many countriesincluding EU members and the UK have committed to reaching net zero by 2050 andclimate-beneficial farming measures will play a key role in reaching this goal as partof the transition towards sustainable agriculture. A wide array of climate-beneficialmeasures is currently available to farmers, incentivised through government agrienvironmentschemes and direct payments. While research has been carried out intohow to engage farmers in these schemes, there is a clear gap in the literature on howto specifically promote climate-beneficial measures with farmers. This doctoral thesiswill centre around the United Kingdom due to the new agricultural policy and the needfor more research that has been identified for meeting the UK's climate change andsustainable development commitments. I will therefore explore farmers' perceptionsof climate change and its mitigation and the economic, social, environmental andpolitical dimensions of farmer decision-making. I aim to identify ways of improvingknowledge exchange on climate mitigation. Ultimately, using existing collaborationsat the Centre for Environmental Policy, I will gain a detailed understanding of thepolicy context and make recommendations for environmental land management andagricultural policy. The findings of this research will benefit climate mitigation in theUK and in countries with similar infrastructures and farming systems.