Paying for Biodiversity Conservation Services in Agricultural Landscapes

By S. Pagiola, P. Agostini, José Gobbi, C. D. Haan, M. Ibrahim, E. Murgueitio, E. Ramírez, M. Rosales, Juan Pablo Ruíz. 2004

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This paper describes the contract mechanism developed for the Regional Integrated Silvopastoral Ecosystem Management Project, which is being implemented with financing from the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The project is testing the use of the payment-for-service mechanism to encourage the adoption of silvopastoral practices in three countries of Central and South America: Colombia, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua. The project has created a mechanism that pays land users for the global environmental services they are generating, so that the additional income stream makes the proposed practices privately profitable.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change

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Performance of dairy heifers in a silvopastoral system (2011, background): “Also worthy of attention is that sustainable practises are liable to payment as environmental services, among which the silvopastoral system for rearing heifers could be beneficial (Pagiola et al., 2004).”
Paying for the environmental services of silvopastoral practices in Nicaragua (2007, methodology): “The Silvopastoral Project is piloting the use of PES to generate biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration by encouraging the adoption of silvopastoral practices in degraded pastures in three areas: Quindío, in Colombia; Esparza, in Costa Rica; and Matiguás-Río Blanco, in Nicaragua (Pagiola”
An assessment of market-based approaches to providing ecosystem services on agricultural lands (2007, background): “…in the Catskills watershed, or payments by water utilities in Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico to farmers for conserving critical watershed forests (Pagiola et al., 2004). biological resources found on that land to some extent may constitute public goods, and as such are not amenable to being…”
Can the poor participate in payments for environmental services? Lessons from the Silvopastoral Project in Nicaragua (2008, methodology): “We used our estimates of household income per capita to classify households into three groups using the poverty lines given in the World Bank’s (2003) report on poverty in Nicaragua: those with incomes below the extreme poverty line (‘extremely poor’), those with incomes between the extreme poverty ”
Payments for environmental services: some nuts and bolts (2005, methodology): “…production methods using best practice to minimize negative environmental impacts (e.g. certified timber, proposed certifi cation of soy and cattle producers in Brazil). compensate the direct costs of establishing ES, often through investments within agricultural systems (Pagiola et al. 2004).”
All That Glitters: A Review of Payments for Watershed Services in Developing Countries (2009, background): “Similarly, the three silvopastoral schemes involve payment according to a complex set of points for different land-use practices but without taking into account differences in the location (Pagiola et al. 2004).”
The Devil in the Detail: A Practical Guide on Designing Payments for Environmental Services (2016, background): “Approaches proposed in the literature include (Wünscher and Engel, 2012): a weighted sum of standardized indices (Claassen et al., 2008; Pagiola et al., 2004), normalizing indicators to make indicators directly comparable (Wünscher et al.”
Payments for environmental services in watersheds: Insights from a comparative study of three cases in Central America (2007, background): “Direct payments for environmental services have been proposed as promising tools, alternative to command-and-control instruments for forest protection (Nathan and Kelkar, 2001), biodiversity conservation (Pagiola et al., 2004) and watershed management.”
Payments for Environmental Services in Costa Rica (2008, background): “Another GEF grant, for the Costa Rica component of the Regional Integrated Silvopastoral Ecosystem Management Project, is also channeled through the PSA program (Pagiola et al .”
LivestockPlus - The sustainable intensification of forage-based agricultural systems to improve livelihoods and ecosystem services in the tropics * (2015, unknown): “The value of these services can be made directly to providers, through PES or associated with the agricultural product via marketing and certification schemes (Pagiola et al. 2004; Wunder 2005; Van Noordwijk and Leimona 2010).”