A new perspective for soil-bound agriculture
In 2001, research institute Alterra developed the concept Farming for Nature. The main idea is that farms can play an important role in the management of nature and landscape. Between today's mainstream agriculture and the classical nature reserves there is an uncultivated area. That is the field of Farming for Nature. There are ways of agriculture in which realizing the nature and landscape objectives are the main objectives for the farmer. In the vision Farming for Nature new ways of farming are described. Important features are that the farmer remains an independent entrepreneur and that ‘producing' nature and landscape substantially contributes to the income of the farmer and the continuity of his business. Farming is the method to ‘produce' nature.