Events | Webinar: Payments for Ecosystem Services in Agriculture
Date & Time
Friday,
September 23, 2011
3pm – 4.30 p.m. (CET)
Location
Paris
Registration
RSVP to Karine Cariou.
There is divergence of opinion about how we can feed 9 billion people adequately by 2050 while conserving natural resources, securing food supply, and bolstering rural incomes. Increasingly, attention is focusing on viable economic models which:
- Pay farmers to preserve agricultural biodiversity
- Help efforts to mitigate/adapt to climate change
- Protect watersheds
- Alleviate rural poverty
Such “payments for ecosystem services” (PES) can take many forms, including government subsidies to ensure farmers avoid farming on poor quality, erodible land, payments for carbon offsets using market based mechanisms, and corporate grants to build smallholder capabilities for managing environmental externalities.
The purpose of this webinar with companies from the food, beverage, and agricultural (FBA) sector is to:
• Share learning about the different PES models available, and their application in different markets
• Discuss opportunities for corporate led innovation in PES around the world
• Provide practical insights and learning on how to operationalize a PES approach.
Who Should Attend?
This webinar is open to CSR practitioners from FBA companies and food value chain actors across Europe, Middle East and Africa.
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