En route to professional nature management.
Abstract
The Dutch government has as vision that 100 000 ha grasslands will be managed in the near future for nature conservation by a network of approximately 500 professionally trained nature farmers. The establishment of a framework for training of these farmers is outlined, based on 8 steps related to the Canvas business model. The report also describes the approach for the evaluation of business plans and the setting of norms within the Green quantitative information network.