Brenninkmeijer, Jonas (2024) Credits to Food Forests. Bachelor thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
This paper explores the perceptions of Dutch food forest owners towards carbon credits as a way to make their food forest more sustainable. Food forests deal with a finance gap of large start-up costs and low revenue in the first years, therefore additional income streams are often needed. In the last decades, the voluntary carbon market has been established to facilitate the exchange of carbon credits, which represent carbon avoided or removed. Selling a credit of the sequestered carbon in a food forest on the voluntary carbon market could be a way to generate more finance for food forest projects. There is however no insight into the perceptions of food forest owners towards the carbon market. Such perceptions are important, because they indicate to what extent food forest owners might want to enter the carbon market. Through literature review, questionnaire and interviews, this research has found that food forest owners are somewhat positive towards carbon credits, whilst also holding that carbon sequestration is secondary to food forest health. Owners favour a simple, transparent and local market, that creates a reasonable compensation. They have concerns about the complexity of the carbon market, how much carbon is stored and income is earned, and the ability of the carbon market to create positive change. Whilst these worries cannot be adequately answered at this moment, they could be overcome to some extent by maintaining a critical eye on the progression of the market. The findings of this paper are limited by the research population and the nascent status of Dutch food forest research, but they can serve as a starting point of further exploration.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Name supervisor: | Zutphen, T. van |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jun 2024 11:53 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jun 2024 11:53 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/440 |
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