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Insights into innovative contract design to improve the integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural management

verfasst von
Birte Bredemeier, Sylvia Herrmann, Claudia Sattler, Katrin Prager, Lenny van Bussel, Julia Rex
Abstract

Innovative contracts are needed that promote the provision of biodiversity and diverse ecosystem services from land under agricultural production, given that mainstream agri-environment-climate measures (AECM) funded by the public purse have shown limited effectiveness. Recently, various actors from the public, private and third sectors have experimented with and implemented innovative contracts that incentivise farmers for the increased provision of environmental public goods alongside private goods. Due to their evolving and experimental nature, detailed information on characteristics of contract design and governance context of these contracts is lacking, hence preventing them from being used more widely. This paper addresses this gap and reports the findings of an analysis of 62 cases, based on information from a literature review and complemented by expert knowledge. Following an actor-based typology, we identified innovative payments for ecosystem services (PES) as the most common contract type, followed by value chain approaches and very few land tenure contracts. Alternative classifications are possible, with hybrid contracts showing promising combinations of different contract characteristics such as basis of payment (action-based, results-based) and contract parties (collective or bilateral arrangements). The most innovative approaches were value chain contracts. They exhibited more tailored contracts between (single) producers and processors instead of the generic publicly-funded AECM, a stronger bottom-up approach to define the (mostly action-based) measures, and the interest of processors to use these activities for marketing purposes. In contrast, publicly-funded PES contracts appeared to be more innovative with respect to results-based payments rewarding the environmental performance of farmers, and providing them more flexibility and autonomy. Future research should focus on the benefits of such innovative contracts, e.g. with regard to costs and environmental effectiveness.

The corresponding dataset is available at doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5078082.


Organisationseinheit(en)
Institut für Umweltplanung
Externe Organisation(en)
Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e.V.
University of Aberdeen
Wageningen University and Research
Typ
Übersichtsarbeit
Journal
Ecosystem Services
Band
55
ISSN
2212-0416
Publikationsdatum
28.04.2022
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Globaler Wandel, Geografie, Planung und Entwicklung, Ökologie, Agrar- und Biowissenschaften (sonstige), Natur- und Landschaftsschutz, Management, Monitoring, Politik und Recht
Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung
SDG 2 – Kein Hunger, SDG 13 – Klimaschutzmaßnahmen, SDG 15 – Lebensraum Land
Elektronische Version(en)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101430 (Zugang: Offen)