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Choosing Indicators for a “Climate-Friendly” Landscape

Apr 16th, 2009 by Patricia Casal

Criterion I4: The market provide incentives for climate-friendly landscapes. Producers need access to markets for products and services that return a profit as well as incentives to invest in sustaining ecosystem function and food security. Examples include market access for certified agricultural products and markets for ecosystem services and payment for ecosystem services.


Optimum efforts to mitigate climate change through changes and innovation in land-use practices should achieve co-benefits for rural communities for the climate-friendly landscapes to be sustained.

Next is a list of some institutional actions and market incentives that contribute to achieve a sustainable production and improve rural livelihoods and thus, help building ecoagricultural landscapes.

Click on the Indicators to see means of measure.


Indicators of Institutional Support of Incentives for Stakeholders

  • Presence/absence of programs to improve farmers access to the market.
  • Presence/absence of funding programs to facilitate changes in the land use practices.


Indicators of Consumers Awareness of Food and Fiber “Footprint”

  • Consumer demand of “climate-friendly” products.
  • Relationship between the buyers and the producers (abundance of local markets)
  • Availability of educative programs to encourage buyers to support climate-friendly products.


Indicators of Product Certification Standards

  • Presence/absence of certification schemes, including information about GHG emisions reduction.
  • Farmer access to certified markets.


Indicators of Benefits for Farmers from Carbon Sequestration and other Climate Change Mitigation Practices

  • Payments from ecosystem services (PES)


Go back to Unit 4 for more information about how to select indicators.

Continue to Unit 5 Establishing a Baseline


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