The Conservation Reserve Program

By P. Sullivan, Daniel Hellerstein, L. Hansen, R. Johansson, S. Koenig, R. Lubowski, William D. McBride, D. McGranahan, M. Roberts, Stephen Vogel and 1 more. 2004

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Designing payments for ecosystem services: Lessons from previous experience with incentive-based mechanisms (2008, background): “Additional analysis of large-scale PES policies can help us to understand the broader effects on the economy from scaling-up PES schemes (12, 13).”
Forest Conservation and Slippage: Evidence from Mexico’s National Payments for Ecosystem Services Program (2012, background): “…In the majority of the forest-holding communities in Mexico, deforestation is due to the incremental loss of forest from expansion of agricultural or pastoral activities (Alix-Garcia, de Janvry, and Sadoulet 2005; Alix-Garcia 2007); our model therefore focuses on the relative returns to these uses.”
Cost-effective design of agri-environmental payment programs: U.S. experience in theory and practice (2008, background): “A more complete accounting of annual CRP benefits shows environmental benefits of $1.12 billion (Sullivan et al., 2004).”
The Estimated Amount, Value, and Calories of Postharvest Food Losses at the Retail and Consumer Levels in the United States (2014, background): “, 2011); and (4) soil erosion, salinization, and nutrient depletion that arise from unsustainable production and irrigation practices (Hansen and Ribaudo, 2008; Sullivan et al., 2004).”