Incentivizing sustainable production practices: improving and scaling extension, certification, carbon markets and other incentive systems

Incentivizing sustainable production practices: improving and scaling extension, certification, carbon markets and other incentive systemsIn the absence of subsidies and secure land ownership, farmers often have weak incentives to adopt sustainable production practices. Potential means to change that include improved extension services, certification schemes, access to finance, and results based payments (e. g. for carbon offset credits). This chapter highlights such incentive systems and reviews major implementation challenges and underlying drivers. It offers guidance on how to

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