Forestry

Forest resources are critical capital for poor people in a number of countries supported by the EfD initiative. Villagers sell timber, work in forest-based tourism, and rely on forests for products like fuelwood, fodder, grazing and fruits that they consume themselves. Furthermore, forests provide benefits not directly used by farmers. For example, in mountainous areas forests protect watersheds from excessive erosion and flooding and provide worldwide values by sequestering carbon that would otherwise remain in the atmosphere. Creating mechanisms and incentives to improve the use of forest resources in the developing world is therefore of critical policy interest.

central america | Agriculture Forestry Más allá de la dimensión financiera: Impacto del Programa Ambiental Mesoamericano en la calidad de vida y los capitales de sus familias beneneficiarias Impacto del Programa Ambiental Mesoamericano (MAP) en la calidad de vida y los capitales de sus familias beneneficiarias Chacón-Cascante, A., Naranjo, M.A., Villalobos, L. “Más allá de la dimensión financiera: Impacto del Programa Ambiental Mesoamericano en la calidad de vida y los capitales de sus familias beneneficiarias.” Informe consultoría Programa Agroambiental Mesoamericano.

central america | Forestry Policy design Contagious development: Neighbor interactions in deforestation To address simultaneity and the presence of spatially correlated unobservables, we measure for neighbors' deforestation using the slopes of neighbors' and neighbors' neighbors' parcels. Robalino, Juan, and Alexander Pfaff. 2012. “Contagious Development: Neighbors’ Interactions in Deforestation”. Journal of Development Economics. 97 (2) 427-36.

central america eeu sweden | Behavior ec. Climate change Forestry Parks & Wildlife Policy design Realizing REDD+: what role for Payments for Environmental Services? This Brief presents a framework that can be used to assess the potential impact of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) schemes. Persson, U. Martin, Francisco Alpízar and Anna Nordén,2012, "Realizing REDD+: what role for Payments for Environmental Services?", Focali Brief No 2012:02, Gothenburg.

central america | Forestry Parks & Wildlife Policy design Francisco Alpízar to lecture in the IDB Biodiversity Speaker Series 2012 The Inter-American Development Bank is organizing a series of lectures with emphasis on Economics of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.

central america | Agriculture Climate change Forestry Parks & Wildlife Policy design Media reports on EfD Policy Day in Costa Rica International and Costa Rican local media showed great interest in covering the EfD Policy Day celebrated on October 25, 2012

ethiopia | Forestry EEPFE Research Fellow presents a paper on Common Property Forest Management EEPFE research fellow, Dr. Abebe Damte presented a paper on 'Common Property Forest Management: Implications for REDD in Ethiopia' at the Climate Change and Development Policy Conference organized by the UNU-WIDER from 28-29 September 2012 in Helsinki, Finland.

central america | Agriculture Climate change Forestry Parks & Wildlife Policy design Policy Day / / Día de Políticas Jueves 25 de Octubre, 2012 Hotel Bougainvillea, Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica EfD-América Central

central america | Agriculture Climate change Forestry Parks & Wildlife Policy design Experts and policymakers meet in Costa Rica to discuss climate change, water and natural resources The goal is to identify needs for policy making and research in these three issues that are key for development in Central America.

central america | Agriculture Climate change Forestry Parks & Wildlife Policy design PRESS RELEASE: Experts and policymakers meet in Costa Rica to discuss climate change, water and natural resources The goal is to identify needs for policy making and research in these three issues that are key for development in Central America.

tanzania | Fisheries Forestry Parks & Wildlife Policy design Success factors for pairing conservation with enhanced forest and fish-based livelihoods In settings in which people rely directly on either forest or marine resources, protecting both the natural resources and livelihoods is challenging. Findings from Tanzania suggest that, where budgets are limited, key factors for a successful combination of livelihood and conservation policies include the strategic location of livelihood projects that target those most dependent on the protected resource rather than those most likely to cooperate with access restrictions. Robinson, E., J. Z., H. J. Albers, R. B. Lokina,Stephen Kirama. 2012. “Success factors for pairing conservation with enhanced forest and fish-based livelihoods – Lessons from Tanzania” EfD Policy brief. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Environment for Development Tanzania http://www.efdinitiative.org/research/publications/publications-repository/success-factors-for-pairing-conservation-with-enhanced-forest-and-fish-based-livelihoods

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