Payment for environmental services at the local level: Comparing two cases in Ecuador
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2005
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This presentation analyzes the two local experiences of implementing payment for environmental services (PES) in Ecuador. PROFAFOR, which has been establishing plantations to fix carbon, mainly in the Sierra for the last 13 years, and the pioneering experience of Pimampiro, which is five years old and has become a model of protection of water resources among small municipalities.
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Carbon sequestration, Payments for environmental services, Forest management, Livelihoods, Environmental services, Water, Forests, Water quality, Livestock, PES, Pimampiro, Cloud forests, Profafor, FACE, Water bill, Ecosystem Farm/Enterprise Scale Watershed
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Presented at the ZEF-CIFOR workshop: Payments for Environmental Services (PES): Methods and Design in Developing and Developed Countries, Titisee, Germany, 15-18 June 2005