Economic valuation of forest ecosystem services in Kenya

Submitted by Petra Hansson on
EfD Authors:
Okumu, Boscow
Muchapondwa, Edwin

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.
Research Brief
Biodiversity, Land, Policy Design, Water

Economic valuation of forest ecosystem services in Kenya: Implications for design of PES schemes and participatory forest management

Submitted by Petra Hansson on
EfD Authors:
Okumu, Boscow
Muchapondwa, Edwin

Forest ecosystem services are critical for human well-being as well as the functioning and growth of economies. However, despite the growing demand for these services, they are hardly given due consideration in public policy formulation. The values attached to these services by local communities in developing countries are also generally unknown. Using a case study of the Mau forest conservancy in Kenya, this study applied choice experiment techniques to estimate the value attached to salient forest ecosystem services by forest-adjacent communities.

EfD Discussion Paper
Biodiversity, Experiments, Forestry, Land

Willingness to accept compensation for afromontane forest ecosystems conservation

Submitted by Petra Hansson on
EfD Authors:
Mulatu, Dawit W.

Highlights

• Farmers would rather receive compensation for soil and water conservation works than biodiversity.

• Significant costs can be shared by farmers for forest conservation.

• Investments in forestland create incentives for farmers to sustainably use forests.

• Accounting for heterogeneity allows better estimation of willingness to accept.

Peer Reviewed
Biodiversity, Forestry, Land, Policy Design

Reconsidering rural land use and livelihood transition under the pressure of urbanization in Vietnam: A case study of Hanoi

Submitted by Luat Do on
EfD Authors:
Quang, Nguyen

Over the last two decades, land acquisition for urbanization has caused a huge loss of farmland on the fringes of Hanoi, Vietnam. Previous studies have often criticized this policy for pushing farmers out of farming and disrupting peri-urban endogenous development. This study provides a case report of a peri-urban commune in western Hanoi to show how this claim is misleading. We found that livelihood transitions in this commune took place early on, and this helped most local laborers prepare to move on from farming when urbanization sped up and land acquisition policies were implemented.

Peer Reviewed
Land, Policy Design
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