Forest Conservation and Slippage: Evidence from Mexico’s National Payments for Ecosystem Services Program

Alix‐Garcia, Jennifer; Shapiro, Elizabeth N.; Sims, Katharine R. E.

doi:10.3368/le.88.4.613

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“…For example, some soil BMPs may benefit farmers downstream by retaining soil and reducing erosion. Other research has focused on the spatial slippage that occurs when conservation programs increase productive farm land scarcity and some less productive land is brought into production temporarily [122][123][124]. Temporal spillover has been examined by studying the impact of adoption of certain BMPs (such as enrollment in a conservation program) on the later adoption of other practices (such as staying in the same conservation program or switching to another program) [80].…”

Section: Interactions Among Bmps and Spatial And Temporal Spillover mentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors Influencing Farmers’ Adoption of Best Management Practices: A Review and Synthesis

2018

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Best management practices (BMPs) for reducing agricultural non-point source pollution are widely available. However, agriculture remains a major global contributor to degradation of waters because farmers often do not adopt BMPs. To improve water quality, it is necessary to understand the factors that influence BMP adoption by farmers. We review the findings of BMP adoption studies from both developed and developing countries, published after (or otherwise not included in) two major literature reviews from 2007 and 2008. We summarize the study locations, scales, and BMPs studied; the analytical methods used; the factors evaluated; and the directionality of each factor's influence on BMP adoption. We then present a conceptual framework for BMP adoption decisions that emphasizes the importance of scale, the tailoring or targeting of information and incentives, and the importance of expected farm profits. We suggest that future research directions should focus on study scale, on measuring and modeling of adoption as a continuous process, and on incorporation of social norms and uncertainty into decision-making. More research is needed on uses of social media and market recognition approaches (such as certificate schemes and consumer labeling) to influence BMP adoption.

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Factors Influencing Farmers’ Adoption of Best Management Practices: A Review and Synthesis

2018

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“…Syntheses of PES findings increasingly point to institutional and socio‐ecological contextual factors in explaining its impacts (Wunder, ; Wunder et al , ; Angelsen, ; Greiber, ; Muradian et al , ; Pascual et al , ; Vatn, ; Ferraro, ; Corbera, ; Raes et al , ). Impact assessments of PES have recently included administrative heterogeneity and presence of other instruments (Alix‐Garcia et al , ; Pfaff and Robalino, ; Robalino et al , ). Fletcher and Büscher () note that much of the recent literature (Vatn, ; Dempsey and Robertson, ; Pirard and Lapeyre, ; Gómez‐Baggethun and Muradian, ; Van Hecken et al , ) argues that PES is not a market instrument or neoliberal because of the substantial mix of public funding and regulation of PES implementation on the ground.…”

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confidence: 99%

Payments for Ecosystem Services as a Policy Mix: Demonstrating the institutional analysis and development framework on conservation policy instruments

Barton

Benavides²,

Chacón-Cascante

et al. 2017

Env Pol Gov

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Policy mix analysis has been applied in research on energy, climate, urban and transport policy, and more recently biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services. However, policy mix analysis has thus far been employed at a high conceptual level, focusing on describing interactions between instrument types. Policy mix analysis rarely describes instrument ‘structure’ or functional characteristics in a way that would answer the question ‘what constitutes an instrument’? We describe how the rules‐in‐use taxonomy of the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework, developed for research on common pool resource management, can be used to characterize conservation policy instrument interactions. We demonstrate the approach on the well‐known payments for ecosystem services (PES) program in Costa Rica and cross‐compliance policies, arguing that PES is a policy mix rather than a single economic instrument. Our analysis shows how design features of PES described in the economics literature map to ‘rules‐in‐use’ in the IAD framework. The framework provides a terminology for defining what constitutes institutional context, comparing economic, regulatory and information instruments, and studying their interactions. The rules‐in‐use taxonomy of IAD is a ‘structural’ diagnostic approach, which needs to be combined with other tools that analyse the role and ‘agency’ of actors, as part of integrative environmental governance research. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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“…However, in some countries, such as Nepal and Mexico, community-based resource management is a dominant conservation strategy. In such cases, it makes sense to make payments to communities [16,17]. Community-held property rights may also offer some scale-economies (similar to government-financed programs) and reduce transaction costs [7].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Financing Watershed Services in the Foothills of the Himalayas

Kumar

Shyamsundar

Nepal

et al. 2018

Water

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Watershed management is critical for the sustainable supply of clean water to urban centers, particularly in areas of developing countries where large-scale infrastructure projects are costly to implement. In this paper, we discuss the potential for financing improvements in watershed services in the foothills of the Himalayas through Payments for Ecosystem Services. Through the use of a choice experiment to disentangle household preferences, we show that downstream water users are interested in improvements in water quality through source water protection. Households in Dharan municipality are willing to finance watershed management to the extent of USD 118,000 per year. These payments can be used to incentivize upstream households to decrease domestic livestock grazing, change agricultural practices and reduce open defecation to improve the drinking water quality and quantity in downstream areas. The estimated cost of these activities is less than $50,000 per year. Through discussions with local stakeholders, we propose a tri-partite institutional structure to facilitate transactions between downstream and upstream communities and to improve watershed services.

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Forest Conservation and Slippage: Evidence from Mexico’s National Payments for Ecosystem Services Program

Cited by 246 publications

References 67 publications

Factors Influencing Farmers’ Adoption of Best Management Practices: A Review and Synthesis

Factors Influencing Farmers’ Adoption of Best Management Practices: A Review and Synthesis

Payments for Ecosystem Services as a Policy Mix: Demonstrating the institutional analysis and development framework on conservation policy instruments

Financing Watershed Services in the Foothills of the Himalayas

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