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datestamp: 2017-06-29 10:34:14
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contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@CGIAR.ORG
creators_name: Vorlaufer, T
creators_name: Falk, T
creators_name: Dufhues, T
creators_name: Kirk, M
icrisatcreators_name: Falk, T
affiliation: Chair of Development and Cooperative Economics, Marburg Centre for Institutional Economics (MACIE), University of Marburg (Marburg)
affiliation: ICRISAT (Patancheru)
affiliation: Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) (Halle)
country: Germany
country: India
title: Payments for ecosystem services and agricultural intensification: Evidence from a choice experiment on deforestation in Zambia
ispublished: pub
subjects: Zam1
subjects: s28
subjects: s33
divisions: CRPS4
full_text_status: restricted
keywords: Choice experiment; Deforestation; Payments for Ecosystem Services; PES; Agricultural intensification; Zambia
note: This work was funded by the Southern African Science Service Center
for Climate Change and Adaptive Land-UseManagement (SASSCAL)
through the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research
[grant number 01LG1201B].Special thanks go to all assistants who contributed to the study and
provided invaluable support during data collection, and to all participating
communities for their hospitality.We appreciate the valuable feedback
of Evelyn Korn and Björn Vollan as well as Mauricio Sarria's
response to an econometric challenge we faced. We want to thank
two anonymous reviewers and the editor for valuable feedback for the
improvement of the manuscript. All the remaining errors remain ours.
abstract: Agriculture is considered to be one of the major drivers of deforestation worldwide. In developing countries in particular this process is driven by small-scale agriculture. At the same time, many African governments aim to increase agricultural productivity. Empirical evidence suggests, however, that win-win relationships between agricultural intensification and forest conservation are the exception. Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) could be linked to agriculture support programmes to simultaneously achieve both goals. Due to potentially higher profits from intensified agriculture than from pure cash transfers, potential payment recipients may prefer in-kind over conventional cash payments. Nevertheless, little scientific evidence exists regarding the preferences of potential PES recipients for such instruments. We report from a discrete choice experiment in Zambia that elicited preferences of smallholder farmers for PES contracts. Our results suggest that potential PES recipients in Zambia value in-kind agricultural inputs more highly than cash payments (even when the monetary value of the inputs is lower than the cash payment), highlighting that PES could potentially succeed in conserving forests and intensifying smallholder agriculture. Respondents who intended to clear forest within the next three years were found to require higher payments, but could be motivated to enrol in appropriately designed PES.
date: 2017-11
date_type: published
publication: Ecological Economics
volume: 141
publisher: Elsevier
pagerange: 95-105
id_number: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.05.024
refereed: TRUE
issn: 09218009
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.05.024
related_url_url: https://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?q=Payments+for+ecosystem+services+and+agricultural+intensification%3A+Evidence+from+a+choice+experiment+on+deforestation+in+Zambia&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5
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funders: Southern African Science Service Center for Climate Change and Adaptive Land-Use Management (SASSCAL), German Federal Ministry for Education and Research
citation:   Vorlaufer, T and Falk, T and Dufhues, T and Kirk, M  (2017) Payments for ecosystem services and agricultural intensification: Evidence from a choice experiment on deforestation in Zambia.  Ecological Economics, 141.  pp. 95-105.  ISSN 09218009     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/10067/1/j.ecolecon.2017.05.024.pdf