‘Gold runs through these trees’: Preferences for ecosystems payment programs in Papua New Guinea

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.donorAustralian Centre for International Agricultural Researchen
cg.contributor.donorAustralian Department of Foreign Affairs and Tradeen
cg.coverage.countryPapua New Guinea
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2PG
cg.coverage.regionOceania
cg.creator.identifierRishabh Mukerjee: 0009-0007-6346-9913en
cg.creator.identifierEmily Schmidt: 0000-0003-0109-7687en
cg.creator.identifierBrian Holtemeyer: 0000-0002-4064-5570en
cg.creator.identifierGimiseve, Harryen
cg.creator.identifierSafi, Wendyen
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategies and Governance Uniten
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Foresight and Policy Modeling Uniten
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Papua New Guinea Strategy Support Programen
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot rankeden
cg.number2327en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
cg.subject.impactAreaClimate adaptation and mitigation
cg.subject.impactAreaEnvironmental health and biodiversity
cg.subject.impactAreaPoverty reduction, livelihoods and jobs
dc.contributor.authorMukerjee, Rishabhen
dc.contributor.authorSchmidt, Emilyen
dc.contributor.authorHoltemeyer, Brianen
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-27T19:45:29Zen
dc.date.available2025-02-27T19:45:29Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/173423
dc.title‘Gold runs through these trees’: Preferences for ecosystems payment programs in Papua New Guineaen
dcterms.abstract<b>This item is currently unavailable due to an in-process journal submission.</b> Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs (such as REDD+ and voluntary carbon credit programs) have been designed to provide improved forest governance, reduced carbon emissions and diversified income sources for forest communities. However, recent evaluations of REDD+ projects across diverse countries have shown mixed results. In 2022, the government of Papua New Guinea put a moratorium on voluntary carbon credit programs due to inadequately specified processes on contract design and targeting, resulting in ongoing deforestation and lack of transparent remuneration in participating communities under select programs. As the country reassesses how to engage in voluntary carbon credit programs, this study aims to inform the design of PES programs tailored to meet the needs of forest landholders. Using recently collected rural household survey data, we evaluate the unique characteristics that are correlated with forest-owning households’ likelihood of accepting a PES contract. The discrete choice experiments included in the survey, and complementary focus group discussions suggest that forest landholders prefer PES contracts with higher financial incentives and lower land area commitments, requiring an additional $39.07 per hectare per year to preserve all forested land compared to committing half of their forested land to a PES contract. Other factors, such as household size, the use of forest land for timber production and commercial logging, ongoing forest preservation activities within a community and market access also influence respondents’ preferences for PES contracts.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMukerjee, Rishabh; Schmidt, Emily; Holtemeyer, Brian; Gimiseve, Harry; and Safi, Wendy. 2025. ‘Gold runs through these trees’: Preferences for ecosystems payment programs in Papua New Guinea. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2327. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/173423en
dcterms.extent43 p.en
dcterms.isPartOfIFPRI Discussion Paperen
dcterms.issued2025-02en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseOther
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/140437en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/145066en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.12404en
dcterms.subjectecosystemsen
dcterms.subjectforest governanceen
dcterms.subjecthouseholdsen
dcterms.subjectpayment agreementsen
dcterms.subjectwillingness to payen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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