Can Forest-protection carbon projects improve rural livelihoods? Analysis of the Noel Kempff Mercado climate action project, Bolivia

By N. Asquith, María Teresa Vargas Ríos, Joyotee Smith. 2002

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. Sven Wunder
2. S. Scherr
3. Joyotee Smith
4. F. Paumgarten
5. Katharine R. E. Sims
6. Edward B. Barbier
7. C. Shackleton
8. A. Angelsen

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Sven Wunder
2. M. van Noordwijk
3. B. Leimona
4. S. Scherr
5. M. Grieg-Gran
6. I. Porras
7. J. Kerr
8. Rohit Jindal

Citations in the corpus

• Capturing the Value of Forest Carbon for Local Livelihoods (2003, methodology): “For instance, while the Noel Kempff project covers 634,000 ha (Asquith et al., 2002), the Profafor small-holder project established around 24,000 ha of plantations during 1993– 2000 (Igino Emmer, unpublished data).”
• Payments for Environmental Services: Evolution Toward Efficient and Fair Incentives for Multifunctional Landscapes (2012, result): “In contrast, an evaluation of the Noel Kempff project in Bolivia had a mixed effect, with net benefits for the large majority of local people, but a large proportion of community members expressed dissatisfaction with the project as it had not met their expectations (144).”
• Fresh tracks in the forest: assessing incipient payments for environmental services initiatives in Bolivia (2005, background): “With regards to infrastructure, Moira had maintained, prior to the park expansion, the road out of Florida for 10 months of the year and provided free daily transportation to Santa Cruz, 500 km away (Asquith et al. 2002).”
• Research, part of a Special Feature on Do we need new management paradigms to achieve sustainability in tropical forests? Are Direct Payments for Environmental Services Spelling Doom for Sustainable Forest Management in the Tropics? (2006, unknown): “An elaborate case study (Asquith et al. 2002) of the Noel Kempff carbonconservation PES program in Bolivia, which was established a decade ago in three remote communities adjacent to an extended national park, found that conservation had indeed reduced their traditional forest incomes by limiting…”
• How can market mechanisms for forest environmental services help the poor?: preliminary Lessons from Latin America (2005, background): “There was no contract, either implicit or explicit, detailing the communities’ and [the buyer’s] rights and responsibilities’’ (Asquith et al., 2002, p. 333).”