Purpose and contents

• A practical tool to help businesses and developers understand and implement Insetting

• Aimed at those with an interest in enhancing ecosystems such as commodity producers and development agencies

• Written for laypeople

• Section One: explains Insetting• Section Two: benefits of Insetting• Section Three: examples of Insetting projects• Section Four: Five Steps of Insetting

Section One: What is Insetting?• An approach which strengthens the link between

farmers and buyers along procurement chains

• Payments are often made to smallholder farmers (PES)

• Ecosystem Service applications:

• Mitigation of carbon emissions• Water provision (quality and evenness of flow)• Enhancement of

biodiversity• Increasing soil

nutrients

Section Two: Benefits of InsettingSolutions to critical business issues:

• Buttressing fragile supply chains• Degradation of supporting ecosystems• Reduction of ‘difficult to address’ supply chain GHGs• Customer demand for procurement chain transparency• Evolving CSR agenda• Long term: supports livelihoods, protects cash crop incomes

and ecosystems

Section Three: How is Insetting Used?

Section Four: 5 steps to successful Insetting

• Is your agricultural supply chain threatened by climate change or are supporting ecosystems degraded?

• Are your customers demanding more transparency about your interaction with the supply chain?

• Have you undertaken a carbon footprint of your value chain, do you have GHG mitigation targets and are you looking for ways to reduce your Scope III emissions?

• Are you interested in strengthening relationships with smallholder farmers and improving livelihoods?

If the answer is YES to any of the questions below, Insetting could help you..

1. Suitable location

2. Farmerscommunities

3. Potential activities

4. Scale and time

5. Incentives to farmers

6. Funding and resources

7. Team

8. Getting technical

9. Certification

10.Project Idea Note (PIN)

This could include:

1.Good governance

2.Management

3.Carbon / ecosystems

4.VALID credits

5.Farmer and communitypayments

6.Project DesignDocument (PDD)

7.Validation

This could include:

1.Launch event

2.Farmer clubs

3.Farmer contracts

4.Training and demonstration

5.Monitoring

6.Payment and realising ecosystembenefits

Common tasks and techniques:

1.Expanding the scope

2.Local partnerships

3.Verification

4.External communication

Issues to consider:

Acknowledgements

• Special thanks to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

• And all contributors:

Dr Richard Tipper of Ecometrica, Paul Comey of Sustainable Food Lab, Mårten Lind of ZeroMission, TristanLecomte of Pur Projet, Simon Locke of Body Shop, Damien Canning of Costain, Jefferson Shriver of Catholic Relief Services and Cristina Talens of Source Climate Change Coffee