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Agriculture is required to fulfil the needs and wants of society in a variety of fields: foodsupply, environmental services, landscape preservation and finally: climate mitigation.Using the example of land-use change in peatland in order to create possibilities forgreenhouse-gas reduction, a survey about the intentions and future expectations of stakeholderswas undertaken. The underlying network structure of these stakeholders in threerepresentative peatland areas of Germany was determined and compared.The results show that considerable differences exist in the degree of knowledge aboutclimate change and in the willingness to cooperate. Depending on the area studied, themost influential political entities are different and thus require different strategies foragenda setting. From the study it can be concluded, that the realisation of a political orsocietal goal, for example greenhouse-gas reduction, relies largely on the intentions amongthe stakeholders and structural differences in the stakeholder networks. Our example hasshown that for these reasons, land-use change for climate protective reasons will be supportedmore in the study-area in the South of Germany in comparison to the case in theeastern part.
