1. Rewarding the upland poor for environmental services: A review of initiatives from developed countries
- Author
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Gouyon, A., Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebase, The Program for Developing Mechanisms for Rewarding the Upland Poor in Asia for Environmental Services They Provide (RUPES), and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
- Subjects
Transfer payments ,Perverse incentives ,Monitoring ,Institutional development ,Matrix of analysis ,Conservation ,Environmental transfer mechanisms ,PES ,Payments for environmental services ,Upland poor ,Rupes mechanisms ,Market-based mechanisms ,Environmental services ,Upland farming ,Institutional capacity building ,Developed countries ,Conditionality ,Rupes ,Poverty alleviation ,Poverty ,Rewards - Abstract
Developed countries have already established a number of mechanisms to implement environmental transfers either within their own country, or towards other countries, including developing nations. The present review looks at a number such of mechanisms with a common matrix of analysis and tries to draw lessons for the design of RUPES mechanisms in Asia. All these mechanisms have been designed to provide reward to farmers for environmental services, and the priority is put on the ones which were clearly targeting upland farmers. Not all these schemes had poverty alleviation as their objective, but many did have a clear social orientation, and in all cases we tried to look at whether these schemes could be targeted to reach poor upland communities. PES-1 (Payments for Environmental Services Associate Award)
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- 2003