Recreation demand and pricing policy for international tourists in developing countries: evidence from South Africa

Submitted by Petra Hansson on

National park agencies in Africa often lack incentives to maximize revenue, despite the decline in conservation subsidies from the State. We explore the potential of pricing policy to generate funds for extensive conservation. We estimate recreation demand by international tourists for a popular South African park, calculate the consumer surplus and find the revenue-maximizing entrance fee. Our results suggest substantial underpricing and therefore significant forgone income.

Biodiversity, Conservation, Land, Policy Design

Determinants of successful collective management of forest resources: Evidence from Kenyan Community Forest Associations

Submitted by Jane Nyawira Maina on
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The collective participation of local communities in the management and utilization of forest resources is now widely accepted as a possible solution to the failure of centralized, top-down approaches to forest conservation.Under such initiatives, communities in Kenya have organized themselves into Community Forest Associations

Forestry

Welfare and forest cover impacts of incentive based conservation: Evidence from Kenyan community forest associations

Submitted by Jane Nyawira Maina on
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This paper examines whether offering landless forest-adjacent communities options to grow appropriate food crops inside forest reserves during early stages of reforestation programmes increases incomes of low-income households and conserve forests. We consider the forest cover and household welfare impacts of a unique incentive scheme in Kenya known as the Plantation Establishment and Livelihood Improvement Scheme (PELIS). PELIS seeks to deepen community participation in forestry, and improve the livelihoods of adjacent communities.

Conservation, Forestry

Can local communities afford full control over wildlife conservation? The case of Zimbabwe

Submitted by Jane Nyawira Maina on

Wildlife is widely becoming an important vehicle for rural development in most third-world countries across the globe. With wildlife, as with other conservation and development policies, policymakers are usually not informed about the needs and wants of poor rural households and roll out programmes that are not tailor made to suit their desires, which often results in policy failure. We use a survey-based choice experiment in this paper to investigate household preferences for various attributes of a wildlife management scheme. The survey was administered in

Conservation

Volatility linkages between energy and wine prices in South Africa

Submitted by Petra Hansson on
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Energy prices (for fuel and electricity) and energy price volatility impact wine prices. In the long run, we find a clear link between fuel and wine prices, implying that the two markets positively influence each other to the extent that a change in fuel prices influences wine prices. In the short run, we find that past volatility from wine prices as well as shocks from other markets, i.e., fuel and electricity, influence the current wine prices.

Agriculture, Energy, Policy Design