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Rianne van Zandbrink: The farmers in PAVEx are inspired by target-driven management
Rianne van Zandbrink, who contributes to the PAVEx project, thinks the project works because it focuses on the participating farmers’ learning goals. In the PAVEx project Dutch farmers collaborate through land exchange between arable and livestock farmers, to recycle nutrients, improve soil health, and reduce emissions
Results
This coming year the results of four years of experimenting and learning will become visible in reports and scientific articles. Rianne is currently together with colleagues Evelien de Olde and Lianne Alderkamp working on an article with the focus on social advantages of these collaborations and how the collaborations are organised in the different regions.
The farmers, researchers and policymakers engage in genuine dialogue about what they want to learn from each other. I see that farmers have a collective inventiveness and smart ways of collaborating on things like cutting down on pesticides and concentrates, and that they are inspired by target-driven management
PAVEx
PAVEx is a WUR project focused on advancing circular agriculture and investigates collaboration through land exchange between arable and livestock farmers. It analyses farming practices in five experimental regions and explores how partnerships between arable and livestock sectors contribute to achieving national environmental goals.