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PB0026-11
TitleCan rewards for providing environmental services benefit the poor? Lessons from Asia
AuthorBeria Leimona, Laxman Joshi and Meine van Noordwijk
Year2011
PublisherWorld Agroforestry Centre - ICRAF, SEA Regional Office
City of PublicationBogor, Indonesia
Number of Pages8
Call NumberPB0026-11
Abstract:
Rewards for environmental services (RES) link global priorities on poverty reduction and environmental sustainability and are designed to balance effectiveness and efficiency with fairness and propoor characteristics. This paper assesses some key issues associated with design and implementation of RES by developing and exploring two propositions related to conditions required for RES to effectively contribute to poverty alleviation, and to preferred forms of pro- poor mechanisms.

The concept of rewarding local people who protect the environment and the services provides links to two global priorities: to reduce poverty and to sustain the environment.

Pilot schemes based on the concept should ideally aim to balance effectiveness and efficiency with fairness and supporting poor people.

However, most tend to focus primarily on the efficiency of providing the environmental services and often neglect the local people involved in managing the natural resources, their livelihood strategies and the multi-dimensional nature of poverty.
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