Understanding forest users' participation in participatory forest management (PFM): Insights from Mt. Elgon forest ecosystem, Kenya

Submitted by Jane Nyawira Maina on
EfD Authors:
Ateka, Josiah

Participation of local communities in forest management decision-making has been promoted as a mechanism of improving livelihoods and forest conditions, yet the level of participation in many programs remains low. Using data from a cross-sectional survey of 924 forest-dependent households in Western Kenya, we examine the factors that support or constrain forest dependent people's participation in a Participatory Forest Management (PFM) program.

Peer Reviewed
Forestry

Decentralized Forest Management: Experimental and Quasi-experimental Evidence

Submitted by Petra Hansson on
EfD Authors:
Blackman, Allen
Bluffstone, Randall

Developing country forests sustain livelihoods, help to control flooding, recharge aquifers, pollinate crops, cycle nutrients, harbor biodiversity, and sequester carbon. As a result, forest loss and degradation have serious environmental and socioeconomic consequences. Decentralization and devolution of governance have arguably been the most important policy trend affecting developing countries’ forests over the past three decades.

Peer Reviewed
Forestry

The value of forest water purification ecosystem services in Costa Rica

Submitted by Petra Hansson on
EfD Authors:
Piaggio, Matías
Siikamäki, Juha

Highlights

•  Avoiding 1% of catchment's forest loss reduces chemicals use by 0.026% in Costa Rica.

• Improving the turbidity by 1% decreases 0.005% aluminum sulfate needed at the water plants.

• The value of water purification service by forests is USD 9.5 per hectare per year.

• The contribution of forest (per ha) becomes larger as the size of the catchment decreases.

Peer Reviewed
Biodiversity, Forestry, Water

Urbanisation and domestic energy trends: Analysis of household energy consumption patterns in relation to land-use change in peri-urban Accra, Ghana

Submitted by Vicentia Quartey on
EfD Authors:
Yiran, Gerald

Highlights

  • Consumption of firewood decreases while charcoal and LPG increases with land-use change/intensity The factors that determine the choice of energy included Land-use change/intensity and the livelihood activities.
  • Sustainable energy policy should embrace energy stacking and strongly encourage reforestation.
Peer Reviewed
Forestry, Urban

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
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