The configurations of agri-environmental schemes: a typology of systems encouraging farms to produce environmental goods

Abstract

A comparative study on different angles (making, implementation, actors, aims, means, etc.), of several agri-environmental schemes permitted the building of an expert typology of these encouraging systems. The constants lead to the description of four types (called configurations), based on the interactions between representatives of the social demand and farmers during the making of the projects and the implementation of the prescriptions. This typology gives light to systems encouraging the production of environmental goods and allows to develop suitable strategies for different contexts.