Agriculture and Public Goods

<p>Introduction<br/>1. Agriculture and public goods<br/>1.1. Institutional approach to public goods provision<br/>1.2. A ‘wider’ approach on multifunctional agriculture<br/>1.3. The CAP and the provision of public goods<br/>1.4. A new model for public goods provision in rural areas<br/>2. The role of collective action<br/>2.1. Collective action: definition and characteristics<br/>2.2. Barriers and benefits of collective action<br/>2.3. Institutional arrangements<br/>2.4. The role of social capital<br/>2.5. A new approach to learning and innovation<br/>3. Collective agri-environmental strategies<br/>3.1. Introduction<br/>3.2. Examples of collabourative agri-environmental schemes<br/>3.3. Grass roots collective actions<br/>4. The project “Custody of the Territory” in Media Valle del Serchio (Tuscany)<br/>4.1. Case study overview<br/>4.2. Local farmers as ‘custodians of the territory’<br/>4.3. Institutional arrangements<br/>4.4. Benefits, barriers and potentialities of the scheme<br/>5. The agri-environmental agreement in Valdaso (Marche)<br/>5.1. Case study overview<br/>5.2. The territorial agri-environmental agreement<br/>5.3. The involvement of local farmers<br/>5.4. Benefits, barriers and potentialities of the agreement<br/>6. Collective action for public goods: institutional and policy innovation<br/>6.1. The determinants of successful collective action<br/>6.2. A pro-active engagement of farmers<br/>6.3. The provision of public goods through collective action<br/>6.4. Policy innovation for collective action<br/>Conclusions<br/>Appendix: methodology               <br/>Epistemological approach<br/>Participatory methods: an overview<br/>Data collection and analysis: Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA)<br/>Overview of the RRA methods<br/>Grounded theory and analysis of the qualitative data<br/>Strengths and limitations of the proposed methodology<br/>The Interviews</p>