Payments for environmental services and development. Combining conservation incentives with investment

Paying communities or producers to maintain the quality of water or biodiversity; encouraging farmers to adopt environmentally friendly practices; paying developing countries to avoid deforestation and thereby reduce CO2emissions: interest in payments for environmental services (PES) is growing throughout the world. However, past experience shows that PES are not without their problems: the criterion used to determine the amount; the methods used to evaluate effectiveness; and the uncertain use of payments, etc. Hence the proposal to combine direct incentives to protect ecosystems, especially forests, with the ecological intensification of agriculture and investment in land.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Karsenty, Alain
Format:	article biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	CIRAD
Subjects:	P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières, E13 - Investissements, financement et crédit, service, services écosystémiques, incitation, politique de l'environnement, conservation des ressources, investissement, intensification, évaluation de l'impact, document d'orientation, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6989, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1348040570280, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3818, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2597, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6523, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3930, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_33485, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_37938, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4ceffa55,
Online Access:	http://agritrop.cirad.fr/589276/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/589276/1/Perspective_7_Karsenty_ENG.pdf
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