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Governance as the “New Policy Strategy” for Ag-Environmental Issues LikeGovernance as the “New Policy Strategy” for Ag-Environmental Issues30Comment7ShareShare Governance as the “New Policy Strategy” for Ag-Environmental Issues9 Tim Gieseke President, Ag Resource Strategies, LLC Sustaining agriculture landscapes requires the right mix of policy and governance. While policy options seem unlimited, governance strategies or models seem non-existent. What is the Policy and Governance Connection? – Pick your metaphor... If Policy is the conflict, Governance is the resolution If Policy is choosing the seed, Governance is planting, cultivating and harvesting the crop If Policy is what needs to get done, Governance is how it actually gets done If Policy is the weight, Governance is the heavy lifting. During the last decade there has been an increase in ag-environmental policies by legislators, government regulators, drinking water utilities and corporate supply chains. This policy momentum is well-established and organized, yet the accompanying governance strategies are vague. To effectively steer the governance for better policy outcomes, one must understand the fundamentals and potential of today’s governance options. The compass above represents the totality of those involved in landscape governance: Public Policy-Makers (legislators, agency staff), Private Policy-Makers (NGO, Corporate Supply Chain), Public Practitioners (conservationists, extension agents) and Private Practitioners (farmers, foresters, agronomists). Each has definable roles and relationships to achieve outcomes at the landscape scale. Never before in human history has so many organizations with different [and conflicting] governance styles existed side-by-side while working on common objectives Tim Gieseke’s experience as a practitioner and policy analyst at the local, state, national and international level during the last two decades has provided a unique understanding of how governance strategies are a key to the success/failure of projects and policies. Whether in a private consultation, an organizational meeting or a keynote, Tim can present the topic of governance in user-friendly terms to empower a group or enlighten an audience. A newly created Governance Compass© is used to describe governance by revealing: Four sectors of governance actors and their roles Three governance styles and the types of organizations adopting them How shifts in governance styles addresses evolving needs The inherent governance conflicts and how to avoid them Governance footprints and how it gives clues to success or difficulties Understanding how these mix together is to understand the logistics of managing and influencing governance in any complex system. In his most upcoming book, Shared Governance for Sustainable Working Landscapes, Tim uses several well-known sustainability projects as case studies (Field to Market, The Sustainability Consortium, Ag Water Quality Certainty Program, Chesapeake Bay BMP Verification, United Suppliers’ SUSTAIN, EPRI WQ Trading and others) to describe agriculture sustainability governance strategies. They are all relatively new efforts and none have yet defined governance from a multi-stakeholder perspective. A review of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River states’ Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategies revealed none contained a governance strategy. In these and most other cases, governance just happens. It is very common for efforts to not have a succinct and coherent governance strategy using the governance fundamentals described above. And it is understandable why they do not, but it is increasingly necessary for such comprehensive projects to begin the governance strategy process. Contact Tim to discuss how your organization can step into this “new policy space” with confidence. Tim’s unique governance assessment tools allows for a very quick learning curve to reach governance competency. These complex socio-economic issues in our now interconnected world lead many to proclaim that “governance is a topic whose time has come”. Shared Governance for Sustainable Working Landscapes is being published by Taylor & Francis/CRC Press and is expected to be out in Fall 2016 LikeGovernance as the “New Policy Strategy” for Ag-Environmental IssuesCommentShareShare Governance as the “New Policy Strategy” for Ag-Environmental Issues Report this Tagged in:sustainabilitygovernanceagriculture Tim Gieseke Tim Gieseke President, Ag Resource Strategies, LLC 16 posts 7 commentsRecommended Tagged in:sustainabilitygovernanceagriculture Tim Gieseke Tim Gieseke President, Ag Resource Strategies, LLC 16 posts 7 commentsRecommended Leave your thoughts here… 5mo Lloyd Gardner Consultant - Environmental Planner I find it interesting that the actors in the governance framework identified in the article only includes practitioners. Apparently the consumers are not important enough to be given a say in design and implementation of agriculture policy. As agriculture affects other land uses, human health, and generally the allocation of resources by governments, it seems that public… See more LikeReply21 5mo Tim Gieseke President, Ag Resource Strategies, LLC I appreciate that perspective as it does look like the consumer and citizens are not included. In this case, governance is not so much as strategic planning, but 'strategic doing'. The consumer and citizens' influence is present, but not at the landscape. Shared governance, as one method to utilize a governance compass, seeks 'to create partnerships, accountability, ownership and equity at the point of service'. Governance in this case, is 'how things get done' at the point on the landscape. The consumer and citizen are not there, but must be represented through private and public policies. I believe several of our sustainability landscape efforts are not succeeding because we do not have a system in place to organize the governance to 'combine the low and diffuse values of ecosystem services and be able to reduce and share the high transactions costs'. LikeReply1 5mo Lan Ge Scientific researcher at LEI Wageningen UR Well I think governance has long been recognized as an important topic in multi-stakeholder processes-it is about coordination mechanisms, incentive design, rule making, etc. What is new is in my view network governance, adaptive governance and meta-governance LikeReply11 5mo Tim Gieseke President, Ag Resource Strategies, LLC Lan, thank you for that additional perspective. And I do think it is those areas where a governance compass can be very helpful to describing adaptive and meta-governance strategies. Of course, each of the case studies relied on a mix or meta-governance strategies. I assessed each case by Development, Delivery, Oversight and Valuation components and subcomponents and identified primary and secondary governance actors and the governance style(s) used to accomplish each component. This framework provided the information to describe a governance footprint. The usefulness beyond just knowing what type of governance framework emerged, is that organizations and multi-stakeholder processes can consciously decide which governance styles are most appropriate for certain tasks and how they can and might adapt to changing circumstances. I assume most everyone has had a similar experience as I in working in multi-stakeholder efforts; that governance is never really explained in distinct terms as most all the other aspects of an effort. I respect those situations due to the cultural aspect of governance, but it is quite empowering to apply such a lens. I hope to offer these insights to groups that I feel can rapidly learn the process and become meta-governors. LikeReply 5mo Christophe Pelletier Global Food & Agriculture Strategist & Futurist, helping organizations anticipate, adapt & thrive Such an approach is already widespread and there is no shortage of reports and policy documents about proper governance of agriculture. As usual, the difficulty is not about describing how it should be done but to actually get it done by all parties involved. LikeReply11 5mo Tim Gieseke President, Ag Resource Strategies, LLC Christophe, I certainly agree with your latter statement that parties have difficulties in coordinating. But I was not able to find any reports and policy documents describing governance frameworks using the four generic governance sectors. Of course governance styles are well-known, but I only found one reference of governance footprints. If you have references on the generic sectors (i.e. governance compass and footprints) I would appreciate them. LikeReply 4mo Sylvia Rains Dennis Director/Native Plant Ecologist/Educator at WILDLANDANCE This topic is worthy of consideration across a broad range, even if the first of your metaphors carries the ghosts of conflict (descriptive of an atmosphere that may thrive on contention, becoming anti-facilitatory while often quelling the voices needed in the room). Thanks for giving some windows and handles to an often overly complex process, which does have the goal of… See more LikeReply12 4mo Tim Gieseke President, Ag Resource Strategies, LLC I edited...If Policy is the conflict, Governance is the resolution LikeReply 4mo Tim Gieseke President, Ag Resource Strategies, LLC Sylvia, yes this topic can be applied generically to any complex issue. And I don't even think the first metaphor is even a very good one, but I used it as one of those metaphors that gives stark contrast. What I don't include in this blog is a governance framework template that illustrates how actors and styles can be used to flesh out a governance strategy. LikeReply 6h Tim Cadman Research Fellow at Griffith University Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law HiTim, My work focuses on evaluating quality of governance, bringing all stakeholders into a system, and developing standards for their participation in programmes and projects. This might be your extra dimension. Let me know if you're interested, Tim LikeReply11 6h Tim Gieseke President, Ag Resource Strategies, LLC Thank you Tim. As I build out this core, I would assume those issues will come to the forefront soon. LikeReply 5mo Alexander Kopriwa Strategic Restructuring, Data Analytics, Risk & Fragility Measurement, Technology Partnership… Getting politicians and policy makers to take action is a true challenge unless they can get reelected. LikeReply1 5mo Tim Gieseke President, Ag Resource Strategies, LLC True, but governance is beyond government and in an interconnected world the governance options are for many. For example, practitioners (farmers) and corporate entities (private policy-makers) are developing robust methods to achieve 'sustainability' outside of, but complementary to government agencies (public policy-makers). Today, the capacity to create an Uber-Ag Sustainability platform exists to enable each governance sector to participate in shared governance. This is the governance avenue to achieve Porter's (2011) shared value concept. LikeReply 4mo Asle Frydenlund Disruptive Innovation Director at The Victory Club Governance might not be needed in my opinion, when you have a simple and logic system to be used in business, in universities and educational entities, by families and production and service industries, universally and globally. By avoiding negative impacts and stimulate to progress, prosperity and success in the same process this become a disruptive system changing the gam… See more LikeReply1 4mo Tim Gieseke President, Ag Resource Strategies, LLC Asle - I have found the one major challenge of discussing governance is that there are multiple scopes and definitions. I use governance in the very generic sense that governance is the decisions, influence, and activities that occur regardless if anyone plans or wants them; hence governance happens. Governance happens in simple, logical systems and highly complex systems - it is an inherent trait of any and every social system. People do things toward an outcome create governance....kind of the Higgs Boson socio-economic scenarios. It is there whether you acknowledge or understand it. By discovering it at a more fundamental we can better understand the standard model of a sustainable economy. LikeReply |
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