What involvement of the agriculture sector in ecological compensation? Toward territorial approaches

Abstract

Getting farmers and other rural stakeholders actively engaged in biodiversity offsetting requires to assess the compatibility of biodiversity offset goals with the management practices that farmers are actually willing to carry out on their land. We describe the impediments to enrolling farmers as offset providers and assess innovations available to overcome them. Finally, we propose another perspective that considers the transitional role, at the territorial level, that collective ecological and agricultural compensation could play to accompany the agro-ecological transition.