Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations- FAO
Payments for Environmental Services (PES) from Agricultural Landscapes
There is a growth in demand and willingness to pay for environmental services at global, regional and local level. The actual purchaser of an environmental service is often not the same as the beneficiary. Most of the PES schemes so far are led by the public sector, at national and international level, although private sector is increasingly involved in paying to promote environmental service provision. click here for more
Main marketsThis section examines more closely the trends in demand for the four main markets: climate change mitigation, watershed services, biodiversity conservation and landscape aesthetics. click here for more
Future trendsThe private sector is an important source of potential increases in external funding for PES programmes, mostly in developed countries. The two global environmental service markets - carbon emission reductions and biodiversity conservation - appear to have the greatest potential for bringing new streams of finance into the agricultural sector also of developing countries. click here for more
