The primary activity is the only economic sector that offer products and also offer other goods that improve the quality of life of citizens; such as water regulation, as the biodiversity, soil loss regulation, climate change mitigation, etc. These assets are called Agro-environmental Climate Public Goods, which to facilitate reading we will call AECPG.
Public assets are so important that the European Commission has subsidized numerous projects that highlight the risks to which they are subjected and highlight the ways in which they can be valued. In the case of the CONSOLE project, you already know that it is carried out through the evaluation of contractual relations (formal agreements) between farmers and the public administration.
On the CONSOLE project website, we have also echoed the Sister projects; However… did you know that there are many projects related to Agri-environmental public goods?
Below is a list of projects that highlight the promotion of public goods while ensuring a bottom-up approach to innovation in agriculture:
PEGASUS
Grant agreement ID: 633814
PEGASUS will develop innovative, practical ways of making public goods and ecosystem service concepts accessible and operational: it will identify how, where and when cost-effective mechanisms and tools for policy, business and practice can most effectively be applied, increasing the sustainability of primary production in pursuit of the EU2020 vision of ‘smart, sustainable and inclusive growth’.
Closed project
PROVIDE
Grant agreement ID: 633838
PROVIDE will develop a conceptual basis, evidence, tools and improved incentive and policy options to support the «smart» provision of public goods by the EU agriculture and forestry ecosystems, in the light of trade-offs and conflicts brought about by prospective intensification scenarios. PROVIDE will consider a wide range of public goods in relation to a wide set of legislations.
Closed project
Contracts2.0
Grant agreement ID: 818190
Contracts2.0 aims to develop novel contract-based approaches to incentive farmers for the increased provision of environmental public goods along with private goods using results-based, collective, land tenure and value chain approaches. Contracts2.0 will improve existing contracts and design new ones through a co-design process and by establishing ‘contract and policy innovation labs’ (CILs and PILs) in nine EU countries.
Open project
EFFECT
Grant agreement ID: 817903
EFFECT will develop and pilot a package of new contractual frameworks, that will enable farmers to reconcile agricultural production with enhanced delivery of environmental and climate public goods and services. It will achieve this by combining agricultural and environmental science knowledge with theoretical and empirical insights from law, political science and economics.
Open project
ALTERFOR
Grant agreement ID: 737301
ALTERFOR’s goal is to facilitate the implementation of forest management models (FMM) by: Identifying and developing FMM robust in their capacity to deliver ecosystem services (ES) and overcome projected socio-ecological risks and uncertainties; Assessing the impact of different FMM combinations in terms of resultant ES baskets on the landscape level, and improving cross-national knowledge transfer regarding their benefits, costs, management, and utilization.
Closed project
DIABOLO
Grant agreement ID: 636434
DIABOLO will strengthen the methodological framework towards more accurate, harmonized and timely forest information, to enable the analysis of sustainable biomass supply and facilitate near real-time forest disturbance monitoring. It will support EU policy processes, international reporting obligations, forest administration and planning entities and make innovative use of existing field- collected data and EC space-based applications and global monitoring systems.
Closed project
InnoForESt
Grant agreement ID: 763899
InnoForESt’s overall objective is to spark a transformation of the European forest sector by steering policies and businesses towards an economically viable provision of the wide range of forest ecosystem services. New actor alliances and comprehensive networks will be initiated in the forestry sector and beyond. Innovation platforms will support interactive information exchange best practices and alternative income streams from forest ecosystem services.
Closed project
SINCERE
Grant agreement ID: 773702
SINCERE Responding to society’s demands for services such as wood production, recreation, biodiversity provision and carbon storage, the project will look at innovative ways to value and implement such “forest ecosystem services”. SINCERE will develop novel policies and new business models by connecting knowledge and expertise from practice, science and policy, across Europe and beyond.
Open project
FAIRWAY
Grant agreement ID: 727984
The objective of FAIRWAY is to review policy, governance and farm water management approaches protect drinking water resources in the EU and to identify and further develop innovative measures and governance approaches which will simultaneously increase the sustainability of agriculture.
Closed project
WATERPROTECT
Grant agreement ID: 727450
WATERPROTECT objective is to contribute to effective uptake and realization of management practices and mitigation measures to protect drinking water resources. It will create an integrative multi-actor participatory framework, including innovative instruments that enable actors to monitor, finance and effectively implement these practices and measures.
Closed project
COASTAL
Grant agreement ID: 773782
COASTAL aims to improve rural-coastal synergy in strategic business and policy decisions and the collaboration between coastal and rural actors. It will develop, demonstrate and apply a set of tools and indicators by combining multi-actor approaches with system dynamics modelling. This will improve the understanding of interactions between land and sea activities and help develop evidence- based solutions jointly improving economic development and environmental protection, including inland water quality.
Open project
PoshBee
Grant agreement ID: 773921
PoshBee is addressing the issue of stressors – Agrochemicals, pathogens, and nutrition – to ensure the sustainable health of bees and their pollination services in Europe. Integrating the knowledge and experience of local beekeeping and farming organizations and academic researchers (including the EU RefLab for bee health), it will provide a comprehensive pan-European assessment of the exposure hazard of chemicals, pathogens and nutritional stress for solitary, bumble, and honey bees across two major cropping systems.
Open project
ROBUST
Grant agreement ID: 727988
Ecosystems provide a wide variety of goods and services such as purification of air and water, climate change mitigation and adaptation. Urbanization impact upon land use and therefore on the availability, accessibility and quality of ecosystem goods and services. This makes it important to identify the functional relationships between rural and urban areas and their effect on the provision of these services.
Closed project
LANDMARK
Grant agreement ID: 635201
LANDMARK deals with the sustainable management of land and soil in Europe. It builds on the concept that soils are a finite resource that provides a range of ecosystem services known as “soil functions”. Functions relating to agriculture include: primary productivity, water regulation & purification, carbon- sequestration & regulation, habitat for biodiversity and nutrient provision & cycling.
Closed project
HNV-Link
Grant agreement ID: 696391
High nature value (HNV) farmland defines areas where agriculture support and is associated with exceptionally high biodiversity, but also with cultural heritage, quality products and rural employment. HNV-Link network will develop and share innovations that support HNV farming systems across Europe through a multi-actor approach.
Closed project
LANDSUPPORT
Grant agreement ID: 774234
LANDSUPPORT aims to develop a web-based, open-access GeoSpatial Decision Support System to support sustainable agriculture and forestry, evaluate trade-offs between land uses and contribute to the development and implementation of land use policies in Europe. To this end, it will integrate existing databases with newly developed high performance modelling engines simulating agriculture & forestry, land degradation and environmental factors. It will develop and test the new tools at EU, national, regional and local levels.
Open project
SUPER-G
Grant agreement ID: 774124
SUPER-G aims to co-develop sustainable permanent grassland systems and policies with farmers and policy makers that will be effective in optimizing productivity, whilst supporting biodiversity and delivering a number of other ecosystem services. The benchmarking and testing involves a network of farms and experimental platforms in 14 countries covering the Mediterranean, Atlantic, Continental, Alpine, Pannonian and Boreal regions.
Open project
LIFT
Grant agreement ID: 770747
LIFT explores the potential benefits of the adoption of ecological farming in the EU and seeks to increase the understanding of how socio-economic and policy factors impact the adoption, performance and sustainability of ecological farming at various scales, from the level of the single farm to that of a territory. LIFT will also develop new private arrangements and policy instruments that could improve the adoption and subsequent performance and sustainability of the rural nexus.
Open project
UNISECO
Grant agreement ID: 773901
UNISECO seeks to enhance the understanding of socio-economic and policy drivers and barriers for further development and implementation of agro-ecological practices in EU farming systems. Using multi-actor platforms UNISECO will co-construct improved and practice-validated strategies and incentives for the implementation of agro-ecological practices and provide a methodological toolkit to assess the environmental, economic and social impacts of innovative strategies and incentives at the farm and territorial levels.
Closed project
We hope it has been useful to you. If you know of other related project, please let us know and we will include it in this section.
