OECD Rural Principles series: How Agriculture Links Urban and Rural Communities - Challenges and Opportunities for More Integrated Action – N. Hazendonk
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This presentation by Niek Hazendonk, Senior policy officer The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature, Netherlands, was made during the discussion “How Agriculture Links Urban and Rural Communities - Challenges and Opportunities for More Integrated Action” held as part of virtual discussions by OECD on The Rural Principles Series, on 11 December 2024. This presentation was uploaded with the author’s consent.
OECD Rural Principles series: How Agriculture Links Urban and Rural Communities - Challenges and Opportunities for More Integrated Action – N. Hazendonk
- 1. Agriculture in Urban Rural Netherlands Niek Hazendonk SK&I 11-12-2024
- 3. Intern gebruik Intern gebruik › Netherlands highly urbanized, no deep rurality › 20th century development of industrial agriculture › Very high intensity of farm production › Decline of farmers › Diminishing direct relation producer-consumer › Very high (agrarian) land prices 2 X GE 7 X FR › 9 out of 10 rural adresses are citizens, not farmers › Aspects of relation urban-rural and agriculture 3
- 4. Intern gebruik Intern gebruik › Physical › Ecological (green blue infrastructure) › Economic › Cultural › Social › Zoonoses Forms of relations 4
- 9. Vertical farming op substraat
- 11. Intern gebruik Intern gebruik › 4 types of Urban Agriculture (i.e. with relations with the urban) › High technological agriculture / often built up (glasshouses, stables) › Regular soil-based agriculture › Biological or other types of agriculture › Hobby, parttime or educational farms › What is extra added value for the business and/or for the city? › Role and attention for leisure, recreation, in and outside city Vision on City landscapes 11
- 13. Intern gebruik Intern gebruik › High level of urbanization, also among farmers › Still cultural differences › Debate and attention about the gap (different scales and forms) › Farmer’s revolt › BBB Boer burger beweging Farmers Citizen Movement in goverments › A felt and real gap: “we are not treated well by ..” › Actual government: “we have to restore trust” Tension and gap countryside-city/ farmer-city 13
- 14. Intern gebruik Intern gebruik › Agricultural and environmental policy sometimes too technological and bureaucratic › Not the only policy fields with impact on local living quality › Economic and market developments › Emotional cultural › Not seen by politics › (felt) loss of facilities & no recognition of the loss › Vulnerable groups › Bad environment › Government program strives at social economic vital countryside Regional and local resentment 14
- 15. Intern gebruik Intern gebruik Give more attention to social and cultural aspect of developments and policy › Both on urban and rural side › Living quality can grow › Broad inclusive prosperity › Incorporate participation and design approach Citizens become active with agriculture › Herenboeren › Land van ons / Land of us High tech (building related) agriculture: › Look for the industrial ecologic flows between the urban and the agriproduction (energy, nutrients, inputs, water. ) › Plan them smart into the urban system › Precaution with zoonoses Trends and actions 15
- 21. Intern gebruik Intern gebruik Other related agriculture: › Mutifunctional agriculture › Organize short chains › Not more than one step between the consumer and producer relation should be traceable › Good relation › Produce needing processing makes short chain difficult: Lean start up › Ecosystemservices as added value › Farmer needs to know the consumer › Farmshops grew >207% during COVID epidemic › Experience destination › Self service › Regional products › Concept developer › Organize it collective: not individual Trends and actions 21
- 22. Intern gebruik Intern gebruik › Create a desire for the future of a broad inclusive prosperity – Vision and perspective on future for rurban region – Design research can help – Study economic social and ecologische drivers transition rurban landscpes – Bring innovation into practice Living and environmental quality really counts 22