Step two Aggregating supply and demand
Once an opportunity has been identified, the next step is to develop a local purchasing partnership and supply consortia able to provide the environmental outcomes that the buyers need. Aggregating parties on both the supply and demand sides has many advantages and is a central selling point of the Eden Model. It helps to avoid ‘free riders’ and enables funding to reach a level that can unlock action at the landscape scale, which is what is necessary for many environmental outcomes. It also allows more complex and environmentally beneficial interventions by providing funding for multiple outcomes from the same piece of land, or even from the same interventions. For buyers, this introduces considerable efficiencies which may be crucial in making the benefits outweigh the costs. For suppliers, it opens up opportunities to deliver services they could not provide at the individual farm level. Demand Businesses and other beneficiaries Shared interest
Supply consortium
Supply consortium Farmers and other land managers
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