Ecosystem Services Approach for Revitalizing Agriculture in India

Manjula, M.; Venkatachalam, L.; Mukhopadhyay, Pranab; Kumar, Lalit

doi:10.18520/cs/v116/i5/723-727

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“…Furthermore, the protected areas, on one hand, may conserve ways of life for indigenous people and, on the other hand, may decrease the household’s economic status to some degree, despite not hindering their development. Socioeconomic evaluations of the current PES policies also conclude that such preservation schemes are likely to result in adverse effects to local livelihoods, for instance, inefficiency production and lower agricultural productivity, and may lead to social pressure due to unbalanced allocation of economic benefits (Kanchanaroek & Aslam, 2018; Manjula et al, 2019; Treacy et al, 2018).…”

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Estimate the Impact of Payments for Environmental Services on Local Livelihoods and Environment: An Application of Propensity Scores

2021

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Payments for environmental services (PES) are usually considered as a useful tool to both protect the environment and generate multiple income streams for mountainous households who receive the payments, and thus, it has been widely implementing in many developing countries so far; however, the impact of it on local livelihoods and environment has been questioned. Therefore, the article aimed to evaluate the Vietnamese PES scheme’s effect on both environment and local livelihoods by surveying 282 households living in Quang Nam, Vietnam, and utilized the propensity score matching (PSM) technique to investigate the intervention policy’s influence. Furthermore, to evaluate PES’s effect on the environment, the article used Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as a measure of the photosynthetic level of forest trees. The calculation of NDVI relied on satellite images downloaded from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer. The results indicated that (a) the natural forest status has been improved during PES implementation compared with that of pre-PES period regarding total forest areas, percentage of forest coverage, and vegetation cover; and (b) PES-participants have got a significantly lower income than nonparticipants regarding total annual income, agricultural income, and hired labor income. The limitation is that the impact of interventions on livelihoods and the environment is determined by the mutual combination of implemented programs rather than only the PES regime. So, we highly recommend that the future study separate the PES scheme’s actual impact to precisely evaluate the PES project’s effect on financial and environmental outcomes.

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Estimate the Impact of Payments for Environmental Services on Local Livelihoods and Environment: An Application of Propensity Scores

2021

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“…Successful PES models exist in Indonesia, Tanzania, and Nepal, where farming systems and practices are used as entry points to achieve ecological benefits (Ottaviani 2010). The potential for using PES to double farmers' incomes by getting them to shift to ecosystem service generating, environmentally friendly farming practices has also been explored in the Indian context 2 (Devi et al 2017;Kumar et al 2019;Manjula et al 2019).…”

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“…This system, like the System of National Accounts, can assist in the estimation of the green gross domestic product (GDP) as well, through the generation of data on net ecosystem service changes and their value. Alternately, the methodology from Kumar et al . (2019) (detailed in Footnote 2) could be adopted to arrive at the per hectare value of non-market ecosystem services from organic farming, and the rupee value of the ecological incentive to be paid out as PES to organic farmers.…”

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Organic Farming in India

Manjula

Devi

2021

Ecol. Econ. Soc.

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Organic farming has been receiving policy support from both the central and state governments in India since 2005. The shift in policy thrust from conventional chemical-input based farming to organic farming comes as a response to the sustainability concerns surrounding Indian agriculture. Despite this, organic farming remains niche, with less than 2% of the net sown area in the country under organic production. This paper suggests market-based instruments—which have been successful in inducing changes in farming practices in some countries across the globe—as complementary policy mechanisms for catalysing the transition to organic farming in India.

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