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Reconciling Global and Local Benefits from Communally Managed Forests: Evidence from a Choice Experiment on PES in Zambia

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Title Reconciling Global and Local Benefits from Communally Managed Forests: Evidence from a Choice Experiment on PES in Zambia
 
Creator Vorlaufer, T
Falk, T
Dufhues, T
Kirk, M
 
Subject Others
 
Description Agriculture is considered as one of the major drivers of deforestation worldwide. Especially
in Africa, this process is driven by small-scale agriculture. Agricultural intensification is
widely proposed as measure to reduce pressure on forests. Empirical evidence suggests,
however, that win-win relations between agricultural intensification and forest conservation
are the exception. As option, payments for ecosystem services (PES) could be linked to
small-scale agricultural support programs and safeguard reduced deforestation while
achieving agricultural intensification. Nevertheless, little scientific evidence exists regarding
perceptions of potential PES recipients for such designs. We report from a discrete choice
experiment in Zambia, that elicited preferences of small scale farmers for PES contracts
incorporating incentives for agricultural intensification. The experimental design included
both monetary and non-monetary contract attributes. Our results suggest that potential PES
recipients in Zambia value in-kind agricultural inputs higher than cash payments,
highlighting that PES could potentially succeed in conserving forests and intensifying smallscale
agriculture. Respondents also put significant emphasis on improved tenure security and
non-monetary contract attributes, thus allowing to considerably reduce overall costs of PES if
designed appropriately.
 
Date 2016-03
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/9511/1/Vorlaufer_432.pdf
Vorlaufer, T and Falk, T and Dufhues, T and Kirk, M (2016) Reconciling Global and Local Benefits from Communally Managed Forests: Evidence from a Choice Experiment on PES in Zambia. In: 2016 World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, March 14-18, 2016, World Bank, Washington DC, USA.