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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, Tobias
 
Contributor Falk, Thomas
Dufhues, Thomas
Kirk, Michael
 
Subject forest
choice experiment
communally managed forests
 
Description Agriculture is considered as one of the major drivers of deforestation worldwide. Especially in Africa, this process is driven by smallscale
agriculture. Agricultural intensification is widely proposed as measure to reduce pressure on forests. Empirical evidence suggests,
however, that winwin
relations between agricultural intensification and forest conservation are the exception. As option, payments for
ecosystem services (PES) could be linked to smallscale
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 nonmonetary
contract attributes. Our results suggest that potential PES recipients in Zambia value inkind
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 nonmonetary
contract attributes, thus allowing to considerably reduce
overall costs of PES if designed appropriately.
 
Date 2016-05-12
2017-02-09T00:16:33Z
2017-02-09T00:16:33Z
 
Type Conference Paper
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/9511
https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/download/hash/Ki3BfY9t
Tobias Vorlaufer, Thomas Falk, Thomas Dufhues, Michael Kirk. (12/5/2016). Reconciling Global and Local Benefits from Communally Managed Forests: Evidence from a Choice Experiment on PES in Zambia. Washington D. C. United States.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/5621
Open access
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher The World Bank - WB