The SARD-M project’s Adelboden Group in October 2007 issued a set of recommendations on ‘policies’ and ‘institutions and processes’ for the remuneration of positive externalities generated by agricultural and rural activities in mountain regions.
Main recommendation are:
- focus on identifying a buyer;
- the level of remuneration must be higher than the opportunity cost of the provider and lower than the benefits of the user
- transaction costs must be as low as possible
- the remuneration system must be compatible with WTO agreements, i.e. trade non-distortive
