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Integrating ecosystem services from trees and forests into agriculture in OECD countries

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Integrating trees into agricultural landscapes can enhance farm resilience, support biodiversity, and contribute to long-term environmental performance. Policies increasingly promote tree planting and related forest management on agricultural land. These measures range from small-scale support for on-farm tree management to programmes enabling large-scale forestry plantations. Policies that support large-scale tree planting and target carbon sequestration offer the highest average payment rates, at around USD 1 800 per hectare (excluding outliers). In contrast, policies that target additional environmental benefits within agricultural production, mainly to support incremental changes, tend to offer lower average payment rates, at approximately USD 235 per hectare per year (excluding outliers). To enhance the design, implementation, and overall effectiveness of tree planting and related forest management policies, decision makers should reduce key barriers by aligning socio-economic incentives, supporting practices tailored to local environmental conditions, accounting for permanence risks for carbon offsets, and ensuring the availability of suitable seedlings.

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  • Oecd, 2026. "Integrating ecosystem services from trees and forests into agriculture in OECD countries," OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers 229, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:agraaa:229-en
    DOI: 10.1787/b9fda9e9-en
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    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy
    • Q23 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Forestry
    • Q57 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Ecological Economics
    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products

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