Sustainable Agriculture & Natural Resource Management (SANREM)

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Getting started before you begin: Experiences from environmental service benefit transfer schemes in Indonesia

Abstract: ‘Payment for environmental services’ (PES), or what we refer to in this paper as ‘rewards for environmental services’, is recognised as an innovative scheme to […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): L. Beria; J. Prihatno
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document

Research planning of the Vietnam TMPEGS team for technology research

Objectives: Develop economically viable and ecologically-sound integrated vegetable-agroforestry (VAF) systems to increase farm productivity and income, and reduce vulnerability and risks.

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): L.V. Du; P.H.D.Phuoc; T.V. My
  • Type of Document: Media

The Green Buck: Using economic tools to deliver conservation goals: A WWF field guide

This guide demonstrates some of the ways in which WWF has developed economic approaches to the achievement of conservation success around the world, and some of […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): T. Le Quesne; R. McNally
  • Type of Document: Research Report

Social Networks Shaping Integrated Pest Management Knowledge and Practice

Abstract: Conventional technology transfer is based on the assumption of autonomous individuals independently making behavioral decisions. In contrast, the idea of “social networks” is that people […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): K. Moore
  • Type of Document: Media

Developing markets for watershed protection services and improved livelihoods: Early findings from country work and literature review

This presentation summarizes the IIED program “Developing markets for watershed protection services and improved livelihoods”, suggests early findings from literature review, and concludes with emerging issues […]

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

Farm size and nonparametric efficiency measurements for coffee farms in Vietnam

We study the efficiency of smallholder coffee farms in Vietnam. Data from a 2004 survey of farms in two districts in Dak Lak Province are used […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): A.R. Rios; G. Shively
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document

Designing payments for environmental services in the context of weak property rights and commercial interests

Outline: 1. Introduction 2. Game-theoretic model of community-firm interactions 3. Implications for PES design 4. Empirical application 5. Conclusions Using data collected in Indonesia on actual […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): S. Engel; C. Palmer
  • Type of Document: Media

Payments for environmental services as an alternative to logging under weak property rights: The case of Indonesia

Abstract: Decentralization reforms in Indonesia have led to local communities engaging in logging agreements with timber companies for relatively low financial payoffs and at high environmental […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): S. Engel; C. Palmer
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document

Linking economic policies and environmental outcomes at a watershed scale

In this chapter, the authors reported the results from an optimization-simulation model used to illustrate potential impacts of local and national policies to enourage sustainable land […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): G. Shively; C. Zelek
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

Review of developments of environmental services markets in Indonesia

Summary: The objectives of this study was to assess the development of the market for environmental services in Indonesia through a review of literature on related […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): S. Suyanto; B. Leimona; R.P. Permana; F.J.C. Chandler
  • Type of Document: Research Report