Public Hearings on the Use, Management and Conservation of Soils
The Public Hearings on the Use, Management and Conservation of Soils establish the participatory methodology through which plans for management, conservation and recovery of soils must be elaborated on and executed. These must include, as a minimum, public hearings in the greater population centers. This hearing must be publicized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock. Attendants can consist of people, whether farmers or not, who live in or are interested in the area where the plan is being developed. The public hearings take the form of participatory workshops that together with studies of soil, climate and production systems must provide the necessary information to make the preliminary draft of the Plan of Use, Management and Conservation of Soils by Area based on the biophysical and socioeconomic characteristics presented.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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