STAKEHOLDERS INVOLVEMENT AND PERCEPTION
ABOUT THE EFFECTIVENESS, USEFULNESS AND
PROFITABILITY OF SOIL PROTECTION MEASURES
Isabella De Meo
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The framework
Each individual shall have the
opportunity to participate in
decision-making processes
People have opinions and needs
that can influence decision process
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Facilitate and encourage
public awareness and
participation by making
information widely available
Each individual shall have
appropriate access to information
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The framework
The social dimension has become a fundamental element of
sustainable management (SM). Keeping local communities informed
becomes relevant as a central component of social and
environmental sustainability
At today agricultural policy and planning needs to be aware of people’s
perception of agriculture and of the issues related to this topic, and to
take into consideration the entire range of values attributed thereto.
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Stakeholders involvement
Raising public
awareness
Build stakeholders’
capacity
SOILPRO Project
Demonstrate Soil Monitoring
System to various stakeholders
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Collect stakeholders’ needs
and expectactions in a
reciprocity approach
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Stakeholders involvement
The overall activities will create a positive local environment
regarding the effort to fight against the soil degradation causes
and to improve the public attitude and behavior concerning soil
management in all EU Regions.
The community involvement, after knowing its perception on soil
threats, will definitely be more effective and allow a broader
responsibility mitigating the phenomenon.
On the other hand, being also an extremely important aspect,
knowledge of the perception around measure usefulness can
provide information on facts and elements.
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Actors
Local Authorities
Environmental
organisations
Economic operators
Project stakeholders?
Farmers
Consumer organisations
Scientific Institutions
Agricultural cooperatives
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Tasks
Main actions of the project related to stakeholders
involvment and perception analysis
MONITORING
RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS
DISSEMINATION
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Task 1
MONITORING
Monitoring supports decision-makers in understanding the current state of
environment
Monitoring also supports the development and implementation of future
soil and environmental policy and management
Monitoring helps the early identification of the land degradation
problems, providing sufficient time to policy makers to intervene
All along the decision process, monitoring means informing
stakeholders, as well as collecting their perception, around the
problem analysed
Soil degradation risk
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Soil protection
measures
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Task 2
RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS
Stakeholders need to understand the effects of soil threats.
Understanding of critical issues will help environmental policy
adaptation.
Stimulating environmental awareness will sustain the application of soil
protection measures after the end of the project.
Stakeholders will be involved in the development of management
guidelines or intervention plans.
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Task 3
DISSEMINATION
Ensuring that project progress and outputs are disseminated
as effectively as possible.
Awareness campaign against soil degradation process
targeting soil users and all stakeholders in order to sustain the
application of soil protection measures.
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Methods
Survey on perception of the effectiveness and usefulness of soil protection
measures with the use of questionnaire.
Questionnaires will be submitted to farmers through a face to face interview, to
investigate their perception about measures.
A questionnaire has been structured with closed-ended questions.
The results will be published in national media (newspapers and on web-portal)
Monitoring
Web forum (on the project web portal)
Stakeholders will be able to supply comments for the whole duration of the
project
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Methods
Focus Groups to explain and discuss the effects and magnitude of the
threats and to collect perceptions.
Stakeholders will be informed about critical environmental threats and
involved in the design procedure of management or intervention plans.
Raising public awareness
Public opinion survey on soil degradation with the use of questionnaires .
A questionnaire will be submitted to potential users through a face to face
interview, to summarize the causes of soil degradation in their region.
TO BE
WORKED OUT
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Methods
Publicity campaign, including the organization of regional
conferences and public meetings where LRAs, media and
stakeholders will be invited to participate, and the project
results and state of the project progress will be illustrated.
Publishing of a three-monthly news bulletin.
.
Dissemination
Create a Hand-book on good practices against the soil degradation
process for soil users. It will be disseminated by electronic format and
it will also be made available to all potential users.
Create and disseminate an annual technical publication and a video
about the project for all stakeholders
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Questionnaire 1
Questionnaire on perception of the effectiveness and usefulness of soil
protection measures
Target: Sample of farmers
Method of survey: questionnaire submitted through face to face interview
Questionnaire design: 22 closed-form questions
Pre-test: a pre-test of the survey will be conducted
Comments and amendments arising from the pre-test will be incorporated.
Main topics of questionnaire
Three sections:
Personal information
Farm information
Conservative practices
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- Fertility conservation
- Knowledge of measures for soil protection
- Farm and measures adopted
- Regional authorities services for farmers
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First results
Questionnaire about the usefulness of soil protection measures
5) Le pratiche che lei adotta le portano un vantaggio? Ne specifichi il tipo e le pratiche relative.
Vantaggio sociale
IMPACT ASSESSMENT
Pratica/che adottata
Cura della mia azienda
Social impact
Miglioramento del paesaggio
Legame col territorio
Altro
Vantaggio ambientale
Pratica/che adottata
Section:
Conservative practices
Question about impacts
deriving from the application
of the practices
Riduzione inquinamento aria
Riduzione inquinamento acqua
Mantenimento della biodiversità
Environmental impact
Altro
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First results
Questionnaire about the usefulness of soil protection measures
Vantaggio produttivo
Pratica/che adottata
Maggiori rese
Migliore qualità
Presenza incentivi
IMPACT ASSESSMENT
Economic impact
Altro
Vantaggio nella gestione
Pratica/che adottata
Riduzione tempi lavoro
Section:
Conservative practices
Question about impacts
deriving from the application
of the practices
Riduzione costi di produzione
Altro
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Management impact
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Thank you for the attention
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