INTEREST-BALANCED AGRICULTURAL POLICY-MAKING: KEY PARTICIPATIVE AND COLLABORATIVE CAPACITIES IN THE OPINION OF NGOS' EXPERTSINTEREST-BALANCED AGRICULTURAL POLICY-MAKING: KEY PARTICIPATIVE AND COLLABORATIVE CAPACITIES IN THE OPINION OF NGOS' EXPERTS

Stakeholder participation in the process of agricultural policy-making is a way to express public interest and thus to better ensure sustainability of the sector as well as of a country. In agriculture, variety of stakeholders and their organizations is huge, and their power and ability to protect c...

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Published inEconomics & sociology Vol. 12; no. 3; pp. 301 - 318
Main Authors Raišienė, Agota Giedrė, Podviezko, Askoldas, Skulskis, Virgilijus, Baranauskaitė, Lina
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ternopil Centre of Sociological Research (NGO) 01.07.2019
Subjects
Agricultural policy
Agriculture
Collaboration
Common Agricultural Policy
Decision making
Environmental management
Environmental policy
Experts
Farms
Food
Interest groups
Likert scale
Literature reviews
Motivation
NGOs
Nongovernmental organizations
Participation
Policy making
Public interest
Public policy
Rural development
Social responsibility
Social sciences
Society
Stakeholders
Sustainability
Teamwork
United States > US
Lithuania
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Summary:Stakeholder participation in the process of agricultural policy-making is a way to express public interest and thus to better ensure sustainability of the sector as well as of a country. In agriculture, variety of stakeholders and their organizations is huge, and their power and ability to protect common interests are uneven. Studies on interest management note that contradictions between interest-based actors could be solved most effectively through their collaboration. Thus, the article aims to identify key capacities of agricultural organizations to fulfil their members' interests at the level of agricultural policy. With this aim, interviews with the leaders of agricultural NGOs were carried out. Opinions of experts were elicited using the 10-point Likert scale. The LiT method of grades' transformation given in the Likert scale to weights was proposed and used. The resulting weights revealed the significance of each question. As the result, shared resources, stakeholders' motivation and commitment, teamwork and synergy between intersectorial actors was found as the main collaborative capacities while influence-making, and the ability to act according to regulations and procedures has been estimated as a highly important participative capacity for agricultural NGOs.
ISSN:2071-789X
2306-3459
DOI:10.14254/2071-789X.2019/12-3/20