Forest conservation in Mexico: Ten years of PES

Bauche Petersen, P.

Forest conservation in Mexico: Ten years of PES

Case studies on Remuneration of Positive Externalities (RPE)/ Payments for Environmental Services (PES) Prepared for the Multi-stakeholder dialogue 12-13 September 2013 FAO, Rome

Year of publication 2014

Pages 8p.

Author Bauche Petersen, P.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Edition 1

Full item page

Synopsis (short abstract) The Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) Program has been operated nationwide by the Mexican Government since 2003. It has preserved more than 3.2 million hectares of forests and directly compensated more than five thousand landowners who voluntarily decided to implement good land management activities. Over ten years, the program has evolved to better suit the national conditions. Since 2008 the real users of the ecosystem services, including local governments, water utilities and private com panies, have become involved in the payments.

Language English

Related items

Showing items related by metadata.

Document
2002 International Year of Mountains 2002

Also available in:

French
Spanish

Statements from FAO's Director-General and the King of Nepal, profiles of mountain issues and activities from countries such as Bolivia, Italy, Kyrgyzstan and Peru, and information on mountain forests, tropical cloud forests and sacred mountains complete Unasylva's foray into the mountains.
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Implementing PES within public watershed structures: A case of the Sasumua watershed in Kenya
Case studies on Remuneration of Positive Externalities (RPE)/ Payments for Environmental Services (PES) Prepared for the Multi-stakeholder dialogue 12-13 September 2013 FAO, Rome
2014

Also available in:

No results found.

The ICRAF PRESA project has been operating in Sasumua watershed, northwest of Nairobi since September 2008. Characterised by steep slopes and heavy populations of smallholder farmers, upstream practices have caused sedimentation and pollution into the Sasumua reservoir, supplied by the catchment supplies and operated by the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company (NWSC). The potential to use PES to address land degradation issues has been explored by ICRAF and JKUAT (Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology) through its program, Pro-poor Rewards for Environmental Services in Africa (PRESA).
Document

Info Note. Chanje Lavi Plantè in Haiti: Hillside soil conservation as a measure to increase yields and sequester carbon in Haiti
CCAFS Info Note. November 2016
2016

Also available in:

No results found.

Analysis of the potential mitigation impacts of the agricultural development project Chanje Lavi Plantè in Haiti indicated that large amounts of carbon sequestration could be achieved through reforestation and perennial crop expansion. The project’s strategy for watershed and landscape restoration links investments in profitable orchard systems with hillside stabilization. Reforestation of watersheds (–478,828 tCO2e/yr) and perennial crop expansion (–230,854 tCO2e/yr), drive 98% of the project’s sizable climate change mitigation co-benefits that are foreseen under successful project implementation.