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MeetingPayments for Environmental Services from Agricultural Landscapes- PESAL. Final Report
Capacity-building workshop, FAO- CARE Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 4-6 February 2008
2008Also available in:
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Book (stand-alone)Reality check on the potential to generate income from mangroves through carbon credit sales and payments for environmental services
Regional Fisheries Livelihoods Programme for South and Southeast Asia. (GCP/RAS/237/SPA)
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No results found.RFLP engaged an international consultant to conduct a desk study to assess the potential of generating income from mangrove areas in the areas of RFLP geographic coverage from the sale of carbon credits and payments from environmental services. The key findings and recommendations are presented -
DocumentPolicy Brief 8. Payment for environmental services
Policy Briefs on the management of natural resources and institutional strengthening for disaster risk reduction in the context of climate change
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Two institutional mechanisms for managing watersheds have been increasingly adopted worldwide: Payments for Environmental Services (PES) and Compensation for Environmental Services (CES). Their adoption is based on the increasing awareness that upstream activities determine the quality and quantity of the environment downstream. Their rationale is the need to provide incentives to help guarantee the provision of these services. The creation of such incentives needs, however, to avoid the risk of transforming them, and water in particular into a commodity, to the point where emerging private rights may be detrimental to the basic rights and livelihood opportunities of the rural populations. On the contrary, these financial schemes could play a leading role in the improvement of livelihoods of upstream smallholders, whenever they attract financial resources for an appropriate management of local watershed resources. In the tropical Andes, for centuries, the farmers have developed their o wn adaptive strategies to climate variability, thus making valuable contributions to the sustainable management of natural resources. Recognizing these contributions, some of these modern financial schemes prefer to be casted as “compensations” instead of “payments”.
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