Group 1

  • Carbon footprint: provide fund for farmers to put trees in their farm
  • Awareness campaign
  • Community based agriculture: more trees in the neighboorhoord -> community trees orchards: farmers will not collect their fruits themselves
  • CAP: subsidies, cheap loans

Group 2

  • Processers:
  • Consumers: buying trees -> cooperative: people pay farmers for trees
  • Subsidy for trees and hedges

Group 3

  • Subsidies: reallocate subsidies to smaller farms
  • Ecological focus area: more shifted towards green area
  • Higher quality woods: more high quality wood, biomass
  • More promotion
  • Weather insurance: reduce the primes for insurance, if they implement certain techniques

Group 4

  • Cooperatives: pick the fresh fruits from neighbours
  • Support and
  • Pay for ecosystem services
  • Prioritize agroforestry when their renting or sell public land

Group 5

  • Research: green accounting
  • Create labels
  • Give subsidies
  • Information campaign: you need to inform the consumer
  • Augment the need of labour -> unemployed people, bring in social groups to work
  • ‘Adopt a tree’ -> shareholders, cofinancing scheme -> some of the returns in the form of fruits

Policy and reallocate subsidies

  • How high does the subsidy has to be
  • One utopia view of what the best hectare of land could represent
  • If you get a maximum subsidy, for every element you have to get. Farmers will be very motivated to
  • Complex to put in place
  • Ask the community and experts what are the benefits
  • Not by the government, but by entrepreuneurs, tradable emission rights, it must not be payed by government (in Austria) ->
  • It is not a good solution to depend everything on subsidies, consumer has to pays
  • It is not always the value of the wood. Pigs -> some of the pigs will live trees, and he will plant trees: image of the farms, link with his clients. It is nice to come to this place, they can walk between the pigs.
  • Ignorant, not well informed, not to do. If we do enough promotion than we don’t need any
  • It is not only money, money is not the main motivation. Otherwise they feel that there are played. It is
  • Consumer/market
  • Is the consumer informed? General knowledge
  • Education
  • Democratic governance

Debates are all on the blackboard

  • Farmers have a lot of constraints
  • Economic more viable -> and still we
  • Systems in organic farming: you can get advice: which steps you have to do to this, subsidized advice
  • Demonstration: it is on the priority list on any of the
  • Quick gain: locally, then you are not alone anymore. Farmers need the support of the people.
  • Carbon trading: airplane ticket: nog” s

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