During these months, in the CONSOLE project we are making known the 58 case studies, from 13 European countries (2 case studies in non-European countries) in which we are carrying out our project through the information sheets. In them, you can find a series of data from more than 70 experts and interested parties.
The information structured in Infoboxes
These information sheets are structured in infoboxes in the margins of the pages that allow a quick understanding – and through the use of icons – of the types of contract, characteristics, public goods, payment mechanisms, duration of the contract, etc.
The four types of contracts
In this publication we want to present the four main types of contract of the CONSOLE project:
Results-based / Results-oriented (RB / RO)
Contracts that specify an environmental / climate result as a benchmark (in RB solutions, results are the benchmark Even for payments).
Collective implementation / cooperation (CO / COOP)
Contracts Implementation of a formalized cooperation between farmers / actors to deliver AECPG (in CO solutions, even payments are issued collectively and then distributed among members of the collective).
The value chain Contracts based on the (CV)
Contracts that connect the delivery of AECPG with the production of private goods.
Land tenure-based contracts (LT)
Land tenure arrangements with environmental clauses.
Figure shows that 22 contract solutions are assigned to the main contract type of collective implementation/cooperation (CO/COOP), including 18 cases representing collective implementation and 4 representing cooperations. Five collective case studies are double-counted because a second main contract type is involved. CO/COOP contract solutions are thus the most numerous in the project closely followed by result-based/result-oriented (RB/RO) solutions (21 cases). The distribution of RB and RO contract solutions in the RB/RO pillar is nearly half/half; 11 of the contract solutions are explicitly result-based, 10 contract solutions are result-oriented contracts. Again, 7 RB/RO contract solutions are characterised by incorporating a second main contract type. 15 case studies are assigned to the contract type group of value chain (VC) based solutions; 10 case studies belong to the group of land tenure (LT) based contracts (4 case studies each includes a second main contract type). Finally, there are 3 case studies which are not directly assignable to one of the four contract types, therefore, they are assigned to an additional category named “others”.
