Highlights•Distinguishing a spectrum from coordination to collaboration is important.•
Coordination seems to be easier and less costly to achieve than collaboration.•Coordination …

Since the establishment of one of the early co-operatives in Western Europe in the 1800s, co-
operatives in the Western world have developed exponentially and played essential roles in …

Over the last decades there is a growing body of literature on how to enhance farmers'
participation in voluntary subsidised agri-environmental programmes. However, additional …

Agriculture dominates the planet. Yet it has many environmental costs that are
unsustainable, especially as global food demand rises. Here, we evaluate ways in which …

The effectiveness of agri-environment schemes (AES) in enhancing biodiversity on farmland
and creating a long-lasting change in farmers' motivation towards a more environmental …

Ensuring that farmers' ex ante preferences are accounted for is crucial for the design of
effective agri‐environmental contracts. We present a systematic review of 127 discrete …

To improve the ecological effectiveness of agri-environment-climate measures (AECM),
collective approaches to co-ordinate AECM beyond the farm level have emerged, which are …

Despite substantial policy efforts made by the French government to reduce dependence on
pesticides, farming practices are only changing slowly. This paper analyses the socio …

This paper uses Boundary Organization Theory (BOT) to examine the proposition that Dutch
Environmental Co-operatives (ECs) conform to the characteristics of boundary organizations …

The relationship between farming and landscape is a topical and disputed issue–in
academia, among policy analysts and between policy makers and involved citizens. At a …