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  • Bakun indigenous people use modern mechanisms for selling environmental services to preserve a traditional way of life without its poverty traps
    The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) (2006-10-23)
    One of the activities that the Bakun people have been involved in, as part of the partnership with IFAD, has been reforestation and agroforestry projects that increase their livelihood opportunities and to protect their natural resources. While the two hydroelectric plants operating in the watershed pay taxes to the local and national government it is unclear how much of this support gets back to the local communities. RUPES and the local people are working to implement methods for conditional payment for environmental services.
  • Ikalahan people document and quantify provision of environmental services from forest management systems to solicit local and global service buyers
    The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF); Kalahan Educational Foundation (KEF) (2006-10-23)
    The Ikalahan Ancestral Domain covers 58,000 ha of mountainous forest and farmlands and provides water for the cities and irrigation systems below. There are many endangered bird species present which need protection. RUPES will study carbon sequestration, watershed protection, and biodiversity and the test payments for these services. The potential buyers are the irrigation systems downstream and ecotourism. The community-based forest management approach of the Ikalahan promotes conservation, reforestation, and productive agroforest management, as well as data collection on carbon sequestration, biodiversity, and watershed services (such as water flow and quality) in order to strengthen their capacity to negotiate with potential buyers of the environmental services they provide.
  • Linking rewards and governance to effects of land use on environmental services at the scale of a lake: Lake Singkarak, Indonesia
    The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) (2006-10-11)
    Intensive upland agriculture and fishing are the major income producers for those individuals living around Singkarak Lake. Poor agricultural management, over fishing, and hydroelectric draw downs are negatively impacting the lake. The local communities are becoming aware of the environmental issues and are currently working on a reforestation project. Potential environmental services buyers are the state hydropower company and the international community.
  • Market-based rewards for rubber agroforest products in Bungo district, Indonesia
    The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) (2006-10-11)
    "The Bungo district in the Batang Hari watershed located in Jambi is the third largest rubber-producing province in Indonesia. The 'jungle rubber' agroforests in this area are becoming increasingly important as a reservoir of forest diversity and other 'forest services' valued in natural forests.
  • PES scheme in Cidanau watershed, Indonesia
    The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF); Forum Komunikasi DAS Cidanau (FKDC - Cidanau Watershed Communication Forum) (2006-10-11)
    The Cindanau watershed plays two main roles in the areas economic development, as a source for industrial and domestic water usage and as the only remaining mountain swamp conservation site with several endemic species. As a result of the encroachment into the swamp and intensified land use the watershed the Banten Governor established integrated management as a priority in the watershed. TKI, the company that pipes water for industrial and domestic use, is helping fund conservation activities and compensate community efforts to maintain good forest cover on a pilot site. In the contract between farmer groups and KTI, the state-owned water company, farmers agree to maintain at least 500 fruit and timber trees per hectare. For every 500 trees maintained during the contract, farmers receive USD 120 per year. A more formal environmental science management body will likely be formed to to administer the growing program - additional farmers groups have expressed willingness to join and other government and private companies have indicated a willingness to pay for similar environmental services.
  • Rewarding upland farmers to improve hydropower water supply in Sumberjaya, Indonesia
    The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) (2006-10-11)
    The RUPES project in the Sumberjaya sub-district of Indonesia addresses both the degradation of the downstream water supply (from soil sedimentation and contamination) and the land conflict between the untitled farmers and the forestry department. In a region that has had a history of conflict over land rights, offering conditional land tenure (dependent on farmers maintaining existing natural forest stands and implementing sustainable agroforestry practices) is an effective mechanism to secure provision of watershed environmental services from upland farmers. Maintaining multistrata shade coffee gardens has potential to reduce erosion and sedimentation while also providing income to farmers. This RUPES project is also exploring reward mechanisms of direct payment from a downstream power company for demonstrated reduction in sedimentation.
  • Rewarding Upland Poor for Environmental Services (RUPES)
    The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) (2007-06-15)
    The activities of RUPES seek to quantify environmental services, develop environmental service agreements, support an enabling environment for the transfer of rewards to upland poor, raise awareness of the value of environmental services, and form effective partnerships.
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    RUPES Bakun site profile
    The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) (2007-06-21)
    One of the activities that the Bakun people have been involved in, as part of the partnership with IFAD, has been reforestation and agroforestry projects that increase their livelihood opportunities and to protect their natural resources. While the two hydroelectric plants operating in the watershed pay taxes to the local and national government it is unclear how much of this support gets back to the local communities. RUPES and the local people are working to implement methods for conditional payment for environmental services.
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    RUPES Bungo illustrated diagram
    The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) (2007-06-25)
    "The Bungo district in the Batang Hari watershed located in Jambi is the third largest rubber-producing province in Indonesia. The 'jungle rubber' agroforests in this area are becoming increasingly important as a reservoir of forest diversity and other 'forest services' valued in natural forests.
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    RUPES Bungo site profile
    The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) (2007-06-25)
    "The Bungo district in the Batang Hari watershed located in Jambi is the third largest rubber-producing province in Indonesia. The 'jungle rubber' agroforests in this area are becoming increasingly important as a reservoir of forest diversity and other 'forest services' valued in natural forests.
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    RUPES Kalahan site profile
    The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) (2007-06-21)
    The Ikalahan Ancestral Domain covers 58,000 ha of mountainous forest and farmlands and provides water for the cities and irrigation systems below. There are many endangered bird species present which need protection. RUPES will study carbon sequestration, watershed protection, and biodiversity and the test payments for these services. The potential buyers are the irrigation systems downstream and ecotourism. The community-based forest management approach of the Ikalahan promotes conservation, reforestation, and productive agroforest management, as well as data collection on carbon sequestration, biodiversity, and watershed services (such as water flow and quality) in order to strengthen their capacity to negotiate with potential buyers of the environmental services they provide.
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    RUPES Kulekhani site profile
    The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) (2007-06-21)
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    RUPES Singkarak illustrated diagram
    The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) (2007-06-25)
    Intensive upland agriculture and fishing are the major income producers for those individuals living around Singkarak Lake. Poor agricultural management, over fishing, and hydroelectric draw downs are negatively impacting the lake. The local communities are becoming aware of the environmental issues and are currently working on a reforestation project. Potential environmental services buyers are the state hydropower company and the international community.
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    RUPES Singkarak site profile
    The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) (2007-06-25)
    Intensive upland agriculture and fishing are the major income producers for those individuals living around Singkarak Lake. Poor agricultural management, over fishing, and hydroelectric draw downs are negatively impacting the lake. The local communities are becoming aware of the environmental issues and are currently working on a reforestation project. Potential environmental services buyers are the state hydropower company and the international community.
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    RUPES Sumberjaya illustrated diagram
    The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) (2007-06-25)
    The RUPES project in the Sumberjaya sub-district of Indonesia addresses both the degradation of the downstream water supply (from soil sedimentation and contamination) and the land conflict between the untitled farmers and the forestry department. In a region that has had a history of conflict over land rights, offering conditional land tenure (dependent on farmers maintaining existing natural forest stands and implementing sustainable agroforestry practices) is an effective mechanism to secure provision of watershed environmental services from upland farmers. Maintaining multistrata shade coffee gardens has potential to reduce erosion and sedimentation while also providing income to farmers. This RUPES project is also exploring reward mechanisms of direct payment from a downstream power company for demonstrated reduction in sedimentation.
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    RUPES Sumberjaya site profile
    The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) (2007-06-25)
    The RUPES project in the Sumberjaya sub-district of Indonesia addresses both the degradation of the downstream water supply (from soil sedimentation and contamination) and the land conflict between the untitled farmers and the forestry department. In a region that has had a history of conflict over land rights, offering conditional land tenure (dependent on farmers maintaining existing natural forest stands and implementing sustainable agroforestry practices) is an effective mechanism to secure provision of watershed environmental services from upland farmers. Maintaining multistrata shade coffee gardens has potential to reduce erosion and sedimentation while also providing income to farmers. This RUPES project is also exploring reward mechanisms of direct payment from a downstream power company for demonstrated reduction in sedimentation.
  • Watershed services for hydroelectricity scheme in Nepal: Transition from "command and control" regulations to "buyers" and upland "sellers" of environmental services
    Winrock International; The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) (2006-10-23)
    A major supplier of Nepal's hydropower, the Kulekhani watershed was the target of government watershed conservation activity in recent decades, mandating catch dam construction, reforestation with pine trees and changes in land use practices. These measures were successful in reducing sedimentation and providing the environmental services need to maintain hydroelectric dam activity. However, the royalties paid by the hydropower company did not go toward compensating the upland communities that provide these environmental services. RUPES has worked to create more direct linkages between the providers and beneficiaries of environmental services in the watershed and empower upland communities to have more voice and influence in their land use management decisions. In 2006, 20% of the local district's share of the hydropower royalties went to an Environmental Management Special Fund (EMSF) to finance conservation and development activities proposed by the communities.