Incentives for Ecosystem Services

Policy recommendations for supportive IES policies

Public programmes to improve agricultural productivity can act as incentives to comply with conservation regulation; by actively improving natural resource use efficiency to reduce competition with conservation goals. Public policies can create requirements to combine public investments in enforcing environmental regulation with enabling complementary investment from the private sector. 

Key questions: Main policy improvement

  • Which policies and institutions can facilitate and/or block the coordination of agro-environmental policies?
  • How can public policies create better synergies with private sector and civil society initiatives?
  • Which financing mechanisms can facilitate the transfer of resources between different administrative areas, public sectors, private investment and civil society initiatives?