Agriculture is considered to be one of the major drivers of deforestation worldwide. In
developing countries in particular this process is driven by small-scale agriculture. At the …

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs aim to improve environmental outcomes
by providing direct incentives to land managers for the provision of ecosystem services …

Certain smallholder farmers in parts of sub-Saharan Africa engage in conservation
agriculture and participate in agroforestry ecosystem services schemes that generate …

Are the forest conservation practices sustained after Payment for Environmental Services
(PES) programmes end? Using a sample of 268 (former) PES recipients and non-recipients …

Designers and funders of payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs have long
worried that payments flow to landholders who would have conserved forests even without …

Despite many efforts to conserve tropical forests, high rates of deforestation and forest
degradation continue, threatening the products and environmental services they supply. We …

How do different levels of individual payments for environmental services (PES) affect
intrinsic and social motivations for forest conservation? Does introducing small PES crowd …

This paper adds to the limited literature on the bequest value of environmental resources. A
choice experiment (CE) was carried out in order to estimate the economic value of changes …

Abstract Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) have emerged as a popular conservation
tool, yet evaluation alongside other direct conservation strategies remains piecemeal. We …

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) is a market based policy tool that is increasingly
being recommended for effective and sustainable management of watersheds, especially for …