Reducing Hunger with Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES): Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guigonan Serge Adjognon ◽  
Daan van Soest ◽  
Jonas Guthoff
2021 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 101270
Author(s):  
Maria Perevochtchikova ◽  
Ricardo Castro-Díaz ◽  
Alfonso Langle-Flores ◽  
Juan José Von Thaden Ugalde

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Alfonso Langle-Flores ◽  
Adriana Aguilar Rodríguez ◽  
Humberto Romero-Uribe ◽  
Julia Ros-Cuéllar ◽  
Juan José Von Thaden

Summary Payments for ecosystem services (PES) programmes have been considered an important conservation mechanism to avoid deforestation. These environmental policies act in social and ecological contexts at different spatial scales. We evaluated the social-ecological fit between stakeholders and ecosystem processes in a local PES programme across three levels: social, ecological and social-ecological. We explored collaboration among stakeholders, assessed connectivity between forest units and evaluated conservation activity links between stakeholders and forest units. In addition, to increase programme effectiveness, we classified forest units based on their social and ecological importance. Our main findings suggest that non-governmental organizations occupy brokerage positions between landowners and government in a dense collaboration network. We also found a partial spatial misfit between conservation activity links and the forest units that provide the most hydrological services to Xalapa. We conclude that conservation efforts should be directed towards the middle and high part of the Pixquiac sub-watershed and that the role of non-governmental organizations as mediators should be strengthened to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the local PES programme.


Author(s):  
Heidi J. Albers ◽  
Stephanie Brockmann ◽  
Beatriz Ávalos-Sartorio

Abstract Low and highly variable prices plague the coffee market, generating concerns that coffee farmers producing in shade systems under natural forests, as in biodiversity hotspot Oaxaca, Mexico, will abandon production and contribute to deforestation and reduced ecosystem services. Using stakeholder information, we build a setting-informed model to analyze farmers' decisions to abandon shade-grown coffee production and their reactions to policy to reduce abandonment. Exploring price premiums for bird-friendly certified coffee, payments for ecosystem services, and price floors as policies, we find that once a farmer is on the path toward abandonment, it is difficult to reverse. However, implementing policies early that are low cost to farmers – price floors and no-cost certification programs – can stem abandonment. Considering the abandonment that policy avoids per dollar spent, price floors are the most cost-effective policy, yet governments prefer certification programs that push costs onto international coffee consumers who pay the price premium.


Author(s):  
Stefania Troiano ◽  
Francesco Marangon

La protezione del paesaggio č stata per lungo tempo affidata alla Pubblica Amministrazione, che per lo svolgimento di questo compito si č avvalsa degli strumenti vincolistici. Questi ultimi, perň, si sono dimostrati incapaci di far fronte alle conseguenze negative derivanti dall'abbandono dei terreni. Questa constatazione ed il declino delle risorse finanziarie stanziate a favore della protezione delle risorse paesaggistico-ambientali hanno favorito l'affermarsi di strumenti alternativi, quali gli strumenti economici per la tutela delle risorse paesaggistico-ambientali, che prevedono un ruolo preponderante degli attori privati. In base agli studi sulla valutazione monetaria e non monetaria dei beni paesaggistico- ambientali condotti negli ultimi anni, che hanno consentito, da un lato, di individuare le caratteristiche che rendono attraente un paesaggio, e, dall'altro lato, di identificare la disponibilitŕ a pagare per fruire di un servizio paesaggistico-ambientale, l'articolo descrive le possibilitŕ di creazione di un mercato per i servizi derivanti dalla protezione del paesaggio. Viene approfondito, in particolare, il caso dei Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), strumenti economici utilizzati a favore della conservazione/ valorizzazione dei servizi forniti dalle risorse paesaggistico-ambientali. Dopo una sintetica analisi di questa strumentazione, l'articolo si sofferma sulle prospettive di sviluppo in Italia di specifiche categorie di PES, che hanno per oggetto alcune risorse paesaggistico- ambientali preferite dagli utenti.


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