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SLM Facts
Sustainable land management: managing land better for environmental benefits
| Fact | Fact |
|---|---|
| Land management is a complex challenge that requires integrated approaches across science, technology and economics, while being strongly shaped by cultural and social values and local traditions. | |
| ~75% of land in England is farmed, which makes farming & farm-land managers central to the Governments’ environmental ambitions. | |
| Farming policy is itself undergoing generational changes in connection to Brexit & the Agricultural Act 2020. Conditions facing farm businesses will also change substantially over the coming years. | |
| Better land management can be incentivised through both private finance and public payments. But the “what”, “where” and “how” will be determined by the willingness of land managers. | |
| The challenge is in delivering a full range of public goods from land and balancing these so that one does not unduly affect others. For example, through generating unacceptable trade-offs between food provision and nature conservation. | |
| The National Food Strategy recommends that Government produce a Rural Land Use Map and Strategy to support spatial decision making for sustainable land use. | |
| Despite Government’s ambitions for land and the range of policy priorities in connection to this, the proposed frameworks such as the Agriculture Act 2020, do not address or consider the trade-offs that inevitably arise from land management choices. | |
| SLM effective framework for managing multiple landscape pressures , facilitating delivery of public goods. Emphasises local buy-in using demonstration sites, knowledge exchange, building on existing decision support tools e.g natural capital accounting. | |
| SLM is a broad, holistic framework that seeks to align institutions, funding, knowledge and practice at all scales of governance and management. | |
| Food and farming face substantial challenges. SLM provides a way of considering both farmers’ agency and consumer behaviour. | |
| The catchment approach for water is an existing example of collaboration between stakeholders, such as farmers, water companies and conservation bodies. | |
| Biodiversity and Net Zero policies are accountable to international treaties but delivery relies on management at landscape scale and depends on landowners working together. | |
| Culture and heritage are key to the value of landscapes and how they have been managed. | |
| SLM can benefit farming through agri-environmental practices that tie improving yields to environmental outcomes. | |
| Improved science and knowledge transfer that links agricultural practice to biodiversity and ecosystem service outcomes at different spatial scales with economic incentives is only part of the solution. | |
| Institutional and cultural factors need to be considered to account for the way land managers see their role in delivering public goods. | |
| Current approaches currently lack sufficient knowledge of social science to understand land-owner motivation, cultural norms and historic information on the environment. | |
| Land manager trust in the Government is low, and principles of SLM show ways of improving this. | |
| To deliver the Governments’ natural environment goals, land managers need to work with different actors and scales across the water, conservation and climate sectors in the private, government and third sector. | |
| There are challenges of scale, planning, skills and funding, since SLM plays out at landscape rather than field scale. Government funding and policy will need to address these challenges. | |
| SLM takes a root and branch approach to the underlying factors that shape landscapes and the public goods provided. It connects high level governance to the grassroots challenges of fostering working relationships within local community partnerships. | |
| Tensions between local parties and between the local and national governance are foregrounded to support more cooperative approaches navigating multiple sources of funding and regulation. | |
| Optimising this complex arrangement is best achieved through polycentric governance where multiple authorities at different levels of governance (national, regional and community) coordinate coherently. | |
| Polycentric governance for SLM needs to be supported by adequate funding, aligned policy frameworks. improved knowledge transfer. Supporting managers with knowledge on the ground for “how to” do SLM rather than merely showing “what” the problems are. | |
| The Dasgupta review recommended polycentric governance to deliver land use and management policy change. This allows local concerns and values to engage and negotiate with national environmental and biodiversity objectives. |
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