WEF releases report on financing sustainable agriculture
Hagstrom Report | SOURCE: THE FENCE POST
The World Economic Forum, which is meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this week, has released a report proposing a model for achieving sustainable agriculture worldwide.
The report says, “To support the adoption of practices and sustain their implementation, a key source of financing should come from the monetization of the full value of all ecosystem services delivered by regenerative practices, including improved resilience and environmental outcomes like healthier soils, carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions avoidance, reduced freshwater use and pollution, and enhanced biodiversity.”
“In exchange for ecosystem services, all the actors that benefit from regenerative agriculture, including value chain participants (across crop rot...