Assessing the Feasibility of Wetlands Conservation: Using Payments for Ecosystem Services in Pallisa, Uganda

Nalukenge, Imelda; Antle, John M.; Stoorvogel, J.J.

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-77354-4_11

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“…The common perception that strong winds had become more frequent and more severe in Pallisa is attributed to deforestation and wetland degradation which strips the landscape of its protection from winds by vegetation. Whereas forests reduce the effects of wind by serving as windbreaks (Government of Uganda, 2007), wetland degradation through conversion for rice farming and deforestation due to clearance of swamp forests are major environmental challenges in Pallisa district (Nalukenge et al, 2009). For instance, by the year 2000, 68% of the seasonal wetlands in Pallisa district were already converted for rice cultivation, and Isingiro was facing serious land degradation due to overutilisation (NEMA, 2000).…”

Section: Perception Of Climate Changementioning

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Household perception of climate change in wetland adjacent areas in Uganda

Yiiki¹,

Bashaasha²,

Turyahabwe³

2016

Uganda Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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Climate change is a major cause of food insecurity in developing countries, like Uganda where the poor people and small scale farmers have limited options for adaptation. Households adjacent to wetlands often adapt to climate change by depending on them for food security. However, interventions for climate change adaptation in developing countries are often poorly targeted due to insufficient data on climate trends. The objective of this study was to determine household perception of climate change in wetland adjacent areas, to inform climate change and adaptation policy in Uganda. The study was conducted at two sites, Lake Nakivale wetland system in Isingiro district (south-western Uganda) and Lake Kyoga basin wetland systems in Pallisa district (eastern Uganda). The study employed a cross sectional design, using a semi-structured questionnaire, and surveyed a total of 520 households. Results of the study show that a majority (92%) of the households were aware of climate change. Climate change was perceived by households in form of prolonged dry weather (54%) and hotter and drier seasons (34%). Over 90% of the respondents had noticed climate change in various forms: increased temperature (92%), decreased rainfall (95%), changes in the length of seasons (97%), more frequent droughts (93%), more severe droughts (92%) and more severe floods in Pallisa. Households perceived climate change in the form of increased temperatures and droughts, and generally had a gloomy outlook for the future, insisting that climate change will be more severe than currently experienced. More households in Isingiro district perceived climate change to be more severe in the future than expected (χ χ χ χ χ 2 (2) =43.67, P<0.001). Owing to the perception of more frequent and severe droughts and reduced rainfall, households around wetlands will continue to use wetlands for farming and other livelihood needs. Thus, unless 140 F. Yikii et al.wetland farmers (a) integrate wetland conservation by employing climate smart practices like minimum tillage, soil and water conservation, and (b) diversify their livelihoods through commercially viable initiatives like fish farming, household food security and sustainability of wetlands will be further jeopardized.

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Section: Perception Of Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Household perception of climate change in wetland adjacent areas in Uganda

Yiiki¹,

Bashaasha²,

Turyahabwe³

2016

Uganda Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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“…PES provides positive incentives for farmers to preserve environmental resources. While a PES system also requires monitoring and verification of compliance with contracts to provide ecosystem services, it allows for a more positive relationship between farmers and the government (Nalukenge 2006). Several policy initiatives have attempted to balance the needs for agricultural production and for ecosystem services.…”

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Evaluation of agricultural ecosystem services in fallowing land based on farmers’ participation and model simulation

Liu

Chang

Stoorvogel³

et al. 2011

Paddy Water Environ

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Fallowing with green fertilizer can benefit agricultural ecosystem services (AES). Farmers in Taiwan do not implement fallow practices and plant green fertilizer because the current subsidy level (46,000 NT$ per ha) is too low to manage fallowing. This paper defines the objective of government agriculture policy or the farmer's objective as maximization of farm productivity, approximated to the value of social welfare and AES. Farms, which do not follow proper fallowing practices, often have poorly maintained fallow land or left farmland abandoned. This results in negative environmental consequences such as cutworm infestations in abandoned land, which in turn can affect crops in adjacent farmlands. The objectives of this study are twofold. First, it determines the proper fallowing subsidy based on the concept of payment for ecosystem services to entice more farmers to participate in fallowing. Second, it simulates the benefit of planting green manure in fallow land to the supply of AES based on the rate of farmers who are willing to participate in fallow land practices and essential parameters that can affect soil fertility change. The approach involves a series of interviews and a developed empirical model. The value of AES when the rate of farmer participation is 100% represents a 1.5% increase in AES (448,317,000 NT$) over the value at the current participation rate of 14%. This study further concludes that the appropriate fallowing subsidy has a large positive impact on AES and social welfare (e.g., benefit from food and biofuel supplies) and is seen as a basis of ecological governance for sustainable agro-ecosystems.

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“…Since its introduction, the MD model has been made available in several formats on the world wide web (as an Excel spread sheet, and in SAS), disseminated through graduate courses and training workshops, used to evaluate ES supply for a number of production systems (e.g., Immerzeel et al. 2008; Nalukenge et al. 2009; Claessens et al.…”

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Minimum‐data analysis of ecosystem service supply in semi‐subsistence agricultural systems

Antle¹,

Diagana²,

Stoorvogel³

et al. 2010

Aus J Agri & Res Econ

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Antle and Valdivia (2006, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 50, 1-15) proposed a minimum-data (MD) approach to simulate ecosystem service supply curves that can be implemented using readily available secondary data and validated the approach in a case study of soil carbon sequestration in a monoculture wheat system. However, many applications of the MD approach are in developing countries where semi-subsistence systems with multiple production activities are being used and data availability is limited. This paper discusses how MD analysis can be applied to more complex production systems such as semi-subsistence systems with multiple production activities and presents validation analysis for studies of soil carbon sequestration in semi-subsistence farming systems in Kenya and Senegal. Results from these two studies confirm that ecosystem service supply curves based on the MD approach are close approximations to the curves derived from highly detailed data and models and are therefore sufficiently accurate and robust to be used to support policy decision making.

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Assessing the Feasibility of Wetlands Conservation: Using Payments for Ecosystem Services in Pallisa, Uganda

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Household perception of climate change in wetland adjacent areas in Uganda

Household perception of climate change in wetland adjacent areas in Uganda

Evaluation of agricultural ecosystem services in fallowing land based on farmers’ participation and model simulation

Minimum‐data analysis of ecosystem service supply in semi‐subsistence agricultural systems

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