Implications for Participatory Forest Management and Payments to Communities for Ecosystem Services
- Communities living near Kenya’s forests place a monetary value on conservation.
- Mountain forests are the source of rivers that provide water for agriculture and other “ecosystem services” such as flood control and water purification.
- It is possible for downstream communities that benefit from these ecosystem services to pay the upstream communities to conserve the forests.
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EfD Research Brief DP 21-04, RB MS 1022