Summary

The acceptance of the new contract solutions for increasing the provision of agri- environmental-climate public goods (AECPG) were studied from the land managers’, i.e. farmers and forest owners who make the land-use decisions on the land they manage, and the other stakeholders’ point of view. The stakeholders represented organisations acting at different levels (local, regional, state) and in different roles regarding the land-use. The studied types of contracts were result-based, collective, value chain and land tenure.
The results showed that land managers prefer the result-based and, secondly, the value chain contract solutions. These contract solutions were perceived as both easier to understand and apply on their holdings, as well as more economically beneficial. In contrast, land tenure and collective contract solutions were considered less easy to understand, and less economically beneficial for the holdings. The land manager survey data consisted of 2,721 individual responses from 12 European countries.