Rewarding the upland poor for environmental services: A review of initiatives from developed countries

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2003
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Bogor, Indonesia: World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
Abstract

Developed countries have already established a number of mechanisms to implement environmental transfers either within their own country, or towards other countries, including developing nations. The present review looks at a number such of mechanisms with a common matrix of analysis and tries to draw lessons for the design of RUPES mechanisms in Asia. All these mechanisms have been designed to provide reward to farmers for environmental services, and the priority is put on the ones which were clearly targeting upland farmers. Not all these schemes had poverty alleviation as their objective, but many did have a clear social orientation, and in all cases we tried to look at whether these schemes could be targeted to reach poor upland communities.

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Payments for environmental services, Transfer payments, Environmental services, Institutional capacity building, Poverty, Conservation, PES, Developed countries, Rupes, Upland poor, Environmental transfer mechanisms, Upland farming, Upland poor, Rupes mechanisms, Market-based mechanisms, Perverse incentives, Poverty alleviation, Matrix of analysis, Rewards, Conditionality, Monitoring, Institutional development
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RUPES Working Papers