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Evaluating TEEB Agrifood Options: Report for the Steering Committee

9 Mar 2022

Owing to the size of the Ganga basin, the large number of industries/communities affecting the delivery of ecosystem services, and the heterogeneity in property rights/land tenure arrangements, it would be difficult to operationalize a basin-wide PES scheme in the basin. [...] The Organic Farming policy of 2017 recognizes the importance of sustainable agriculture and the need to move away from the chemical-intensive farming practices adopted during the green revolution which resulted in the near stagnant levels of productivity in many crops. [...] This indicates that most studies have captured the impact of the earlier version of the organic farming policy but not the impacts of the activities spurred by the policy released in 2017. [...] Crops for consideration in Karnataka While a landscape approach to crops is the basis of the systems thinking methodology of a TEEBAgriFood project study, there is the possibility of focusing on a few crops such that the results of the study also have specific and direct takeaways for policy mainstreaming. [...] For instance, during the 12th Finance Commission, the Himachal Pradesh State Government demanded compensation from the Central Government for the opportunity costs of maintaining land under forest cover, reduced revenue from not logging, and the benefits of forest cover to the nation (supply of water for irrigation to the bread baskets of Punjab and Haryana, reduced silt loads, etc.)51.

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TEEB

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36
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Canada