Domestication of payments for ecosystem services: new evidence from the Andes

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationBioversity Internationalen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Cambridgeen
cg.contributor.affiliationBasque Centre for Climate Changeen
cg.contributor.affiliationCentro de Investigacion de Recursos Naturales y Medio Ambienteen
cg.contributor.affiliationFundación PROINPAen
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Marketsen
cg.creator.identifierAdam Drucker: 0000-0002-9800-6800en
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2499/capriwp118en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI Archive - CGIAR Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi)en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Environment and Production Technology Divisionen
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot rankeden
cg.number118en
cg.placeWashington D.C. (USA)en
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
cg.subject.bioversityECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTen
cg.subject.bioversityECOSYSTEM SERVICESen
cg.subject.bioversityAGRICULTUREen
cg.subject.bioversityBIODIVERSITYen
cg.subject.bioversityFIELD EXPERIMENTATIONen
cg.subject.ilriRANGELANDSen
dc.contributor.authorDrucker, Adam G.en
dc.contributor.authorNarloch, U.en
dc.contributor.authorPascual, U.en
dc.contributor.authorSoto, J.L.en
dc.contributor.authorPinto, M.en
dc.contributor.authorMidler, E.en
dc.contributor.authorValdivia, E.en
dc.contributor.authorRojas, W.en
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-25T10:12:43Zen
dc.date.available2016-01-25T10:12:43Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/70126
dc.titleDomestication of payments for ecosystem services: new evidence from the Andesen
dcterms.abstractThe current project has sought to assess i) the potential of agricultural biodiversity-focused PES to serve as a cost-effective and socially equitable domesticated diversity conservation incentive scheme, as well as ii) how economic incentive mechanisms such as PES can be designed to build on and complement local institutions of collective action. Results are presented from pilot Payment for Agrobiodiversity Conservation (PACS) schemes and framed field experiments implemented in the Bolivian and Peruvian Andes aimed at sustaining diversity within quinoa, a traditional Andean grain. Findings indicate that opportunity costs of conservation vary widely not only between the two study sites, but also between community-based groups within each site. This creates opportunities to minimize intervention costs by selecting least-cost conserving farmers. However, as shown with respect to the role of wealth and cooperation in determining opportunity costs, this also has implications for the type of farmer to be included in the conservation programme. Promisingly, depending on the fairness principle deemed most important in the local context, there does not necessarily have to be a significant trade-off between the schemes’ potential cost-effectiveness and equity outcomes. The observed behavior in the farmer experimental games further supports such findings and suggests that understanding farmer perceptions of fairness can have important implications for the design of conservation incentive mechanisms, particularly given the important influence of such perceptions on the pro-social behavior that underlies much de facto conservation. Incentive mechanisms, such as PACS, that can support socially valued ends not only by harnessing selfish preferences to public ends but also by evoking public-spirited motives are also more likely to be sustainable over the long-term. The use of PACS incentives for the maintenance of traditional crop varieties and the improvement of smallholder farmer livelihoods thus appears promising for further development and up-scaling.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2015en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationDrucker, A.G.; Narloch, U.; Pascual, U.; Soto, J.L.; Pinto, M.; Midler, E.; Valdivia, E.; Rojas, W. (2015) Domestication of payments for ecosystem services: new evidence from the Andes. CAPRi Working Paper No. 118. International Food Policy Research Institute. 61 p. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/70126en
dcterms.extent61 p.en
dcterms.isPartOfCAPRi Working Paperen
dcterms.issued2015en
dcterms.languageenen
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/129275en
dcterms.subjectdevelopmenten
dcterms.subjectbiodiversityen
dcterms.subjectagrobiodiversityen
dcterms.subjectcollective actionen
dcterms.subjecteconomic developmenten
dcterms.subjectfield experimentationen
dcterms.subjectcost benefit analysisen
dcterms.subjectequityen
dcterms.subjectquinoaen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectincentivesen
dcterms.subjectconservationen
dcterms.subjectcrowding effectsen
dcterms.subjectexperimental designen
dcterms.subjectecosystem servicesen
dcterms.typeWorking Paperen

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