Incentives for Ecosystem Services

Step 3: Identify barriers to adoption

Farmers require support to overcome adoption barriers to implement best practices identified in Step 2.

Key questions to ask

  1. What are the barriers for farmers to adopt these practices?
    • Technical
    • Financial
    • Cultural
    • Legal (enforcement of regulations, tenure issues)
    • Institutional (ownership, negotiation, trust)
    • Administrative 
    • Equity (access to resources, benefit sharing)
  2. What are the limiting factors to improving productivity?

Expertise needed

Expertise needed

  • Facilitator to lead stakeholder discussion to understand farmer and other stakeholders' barriers to adoption

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