Sustainable Agriculture & Natural Resource Management (SANREM)

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Climate, community & biodiversity

This presentation describes the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA), reviews multiple-benefit projects in Madagascar, and assesses the current carbon market opportunities & limitations with respect […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): B. Vitale
  • Type of Document: Media

Market for ecosystem services in Australia: Practical design and case studies

Abstract: The use of market-based approaches to provide and protect ecosystem services in has gained significant attention in Australia. Unfortunately the novelty of market-based approaches has […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): S. Whitten; D. Shelton
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document

Payments for Environmental Services: Some nuts and bolts

This publication discusses the conservation paradigm of Payments for Environmental Services (PES). CIFOR provides a definition of PES with five fundamental principles; PES is a (1) […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): S. Wunder
  • Type of Document: Research Report

Beyond “markets”: Why terminology matters

What is in a name? Does a rose by any other name truly smell as sweet? Aware that terms such as markets and payments for ecosystem […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): S. Wunder; M.T. Vargas
  • Type of Document: Newspaper Article

Payment is good, control is better: why payments for forest environmental services in Vietnam have so far remained incipient

Summary: The study discusses the types of PES and PES-like initiatives that have been implemented in Vietnam. The authors summarize both the achievements and challenges for […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): S. Wunder; B.D. The; E. Ibarra
  • Type of Document: Research Report

Modeling spatial diversity: A forest-site selection tool for the Costa Rican program of Payments for Environmental Services (PES)

This presentation describes research to address problems with the current setup of Costa Rica’s PES program. The budget is too small to cover all the priority […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): T. Wunscher
  • Type of Document: Media

Land use changes in Madiama Commune

In chapter 5, Wynne et al. combine remote sensing and ground truthing in the analysis of land use change during a fifty-year period (1952-2002) in the […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): R. Wynne; M. Sidi; M. Toure; N. Sengupta; A. Ballo
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

The WWF Cork Oak Landscapes Programme: PES as a tool to enhance conservation?

This presentation discusses WWF’s Cork Oak programme, highlighting possible opportunities for developing payments for environmental services. It provides an Overview of Cork Oak landscapes, describes the […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): X. Escute
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document

Impacts of irrigation development on agricultural productivity, resource allocation and income distribution: A longitudinal analysis from Palawan, the Philippines

Abstract: This study evaluates the impacts of irrigation development on farming communities in Palawan. This study focus on three major issues: (1) production efficiency in the […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): R. Yao
  • Type of Document: Thesis or Dissertation

How successful are government interventions in food markets? Insights from the Philippine rice market

The study investigates the Philippine government s price stabilization policy for rice. Seemingly Unrelated Regressions are used to examine the effectiveness of the program at regional […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): R.T. Yao; G.E. Shively; W.A. Masters
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document