ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the development of incentives for farmers to support pollinators in Europe and America. The idea of paying farmers financial incentives to take actions that help the environment, or reduce the impacts of farming on the environment, emerged in the 1980s. Later, the incentives for farmers became much more widely available, applying to all kinds of agricultural land, and in Europe used to subsidize organic farming. In Europe, incentives to farmers for environmental management are paid through what are known as agri-environment schemes, administered under the Common Agricultural Policy. Unlike Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) which provides annual rental payments to farmers for fallowing land, Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and other Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)-administered programmes offer incentives to farmers to adopt specific conservation-oriented management practices and to install engineered conservation systems. Another important conservation programme administered by the NRCS is the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), formerly known as the Conservation Security Program.
