Developing a crediting protocol for the Ecosystem Services Market

In 2018 and 2019, Kieser & Associates, LLC of Kalamazoo, Michigan lead a national team of pragmatic market-makers and shapers for the Ecosystem Service Market Consortium to develop functional protocols to advance markets that incentivize farmers and ranchers to improve soil health systems that benefit society focusing on soil carbon, water quality and water quantity. The team was comprised of service providers, scientists, policy-makers, legal, financial and market influencers that understood the importance of environmental, economic and societal benefits of production agriculture. Our pragmatic strategy was built off existing market initiatives to comprehensively develop an easy-to-use protocol, flexible and valuable to farmers that focused on marketable ecosystem services encompassing soil carbon, water quality and water quantity. Credits would be suitable for use in ecosystem service markets and yield economic benefits to the producer while ultimately providing a range of environmental and societal benefits.

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