Office of Agriculture and Food SecurityBureau for Global ProgramsUSAIDShively, Gerald E.Zelek, C.2016-04-192016-04-192001Paper presented at Sustaining Upland Development in Southeast Asia: Issues, Tools, and Institutions for Local Natural Resources Management Conference, ACCEED, Makati City, Philippines, 27-30 May 2001308_AssessingLocal.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/65377Do the most promising policies to promote sustainable upland farming originate at the local or national level? Will coordination of local and national efforts produce better outcomes? Using a optimization-simulation model of the Manupali watershed in the Philippines we address these issues by comparing the economic and environmental effects of four sets of stylized policy changes: (1) local policies that restrict some forms of land use; (2) local attempts to subsidize environment-friendly technologies; (3) a crop-specific tax levied on vegetable producers; and (4) a hybrid approach that seeks to coordinate local technology initiatives with broader-based incentives rooted in pricing policy. We study the economic and environmental impacts of these stylized policy changes over a 10- year time horizon.application/pdfen-USCopyright 2001 by the authors. All rights are reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided this copyright notice appears on all such copies.Economic policyEnvironmental impactsSoil conservationLocal policyGovernment policyLand use managementModelingSustainable agricultureEconomic impactsOptimization-simulation modelVegetable production taxUpland agriculturePricing policyLand degradationWatershed modelingEconomy-environment tradeoffsGovernance WatershedPresentation