The promised land: contrasting frames of marginal land in the European Union
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Appropriating marginal land is seen as a way to overcome a wide range of land-use challenges such as food-feed-fuel competition, avoiding land abandonment, and preserving nature. As a result, there is growing interest in policy and academic communities to identify, define and measure the potential of marginal land to overcome these challenges. However, multiple definitions of marginal land exist due to the various ways of framing the problems and the solutions marginal land can address. This leads to a number of competing claims on and diverging debates about marginal land. To explore the competing claims on marginal land in these frames, we performed a framing analysis of EU policy debates about marginal land. Through this analysis, we find that different actors have conflicting ways of framing what problems marginal land can address and what courses of action to take. These frames do not overcome but form part of contested land-use debates already present in Europe. Exact definitions or estimations of marginal land are unlikely to overcome land-use debates because land-use decisions are subject to the same competing claims and hence normative decisions as land-use decisions around productive land. These marginal land frames reflect a vision for how land should be used; for food, feed, fuel or nature. We argue that exact estimations of marginal land are unlikely to fix controversies on land-use due to the inherent ambiguity of marginal land. Instead, we believe that deliberative science-policy relationships are needed.
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Bioenergy can have a double impact on marginal land, energy production and feed for livestock.
“Bioenergy can have a double impact on marginal land, energy production and feed for livestock (Helliwell, 2018;Mooney et al., 2015;Muscat et al., 2022).”
From Concepts of agricultural marginal lands and their utilisation: a review (2023) · cites this paper as Muscat et al., 2022
According to the review of Muscat et al. (2022), main policies and related projects targeting marginal lands in the European Union can be framed to three major areas: sustainable bioenergy, rural development and ecosystem restoration.
“According to the review of Muscat et al. (2022) main policies and related projects targeting marginal lands in the European Union can be framed to three major areas: sustainable bioenergy, rural development and ecosystem restoration.”
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Bioenergy related feedstocks (e.g. corn stover, switchgrass) could be valuable supply for farms to feed livestock, so bioenergy has a double effect in rural development in marginal lands.
“Bioenergy related feedstocks (e.g. corn stover, switchgrass) could be valuable supply for farms to feed livestock, so the bioenergy has a double effect in rural development in marginal lands (Helliwell, 2018;Mooney et al., 2015;Muscat et al., 2022).”
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- Authors
- Muscat, A., de Olde, E. M., Candel, J. J. L., de Boer, I. J. M., & Ripoll-Bosch, R.
- Affiliations
- Wageningen University & Research (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Muscat, A.
- Venue
- Land Use Policy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022-01
- Volume
- 112
- Pages
- 105860
- ISSN
- 0264-8377 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3214479002
- Cited by
- 33
- References
- 75
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 2.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Land Use Policy (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- Horizon 2020 (689669)
- European Commission
- Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Keywords
- marginal land, policy framing, land abandonment, nature conservation, European Union policy, science-policy relationship, deliberative democracy, land use decision-making
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