Building a Forest Sector Model for China: Analysis of Domestic and International Impact of Forest Policy Change
The Objectives of this project are two folds. One is to establish the Spatial Equilibrium Model (SEM) for China’s domestic wood product markets that links domestic and international policy changes to
Combining state of the art science with practitioner´s wisdom in the design of PES schemes: Lessons from the Costa Rican experience
Our goal is to learn about the Costa Rican experience from the inside, working closely with FONAFIFO staff to understand how they have sought to improve efficiency and to explore options for setting
Impact evaluation of the Payments for Environmental Services Program on welfare in Costa Rica
Our hypothesis base on previous studies’ findings (see literature review section) suggest that so far PES are being assigned to big and relatively wealthy landowners, and that most landowners use the
Rich get richer in Ethiopian forests
Since the Ethiopian government has changed the nature of forestry related property rights in order to allow communities in south-western Ethiopia to harvest timber and other resources in state forests…
Ethiopia: communities should monitor their own forest use
When it comes to enforcing harvesting limits in forests in Ethiopia, it is more effective when communities monitor themselves, rather than when the state serves this function. But the cost of this…
World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty
Theme: Scaling up Responsible Land Governance: Examples, policies, and impact With more than 1,000 participants from 125 countries at the 2015 conference, this event has become one of the main venues…
Does Eco-certification Stem Tropical Deforestation? Forest Stewardship Council Certification in Mexico
Since its creation more than two decades ago as a voluntary market-based approach to improving forest management, forest certification has proliferated rapidly in developing countries. Yet we know little about whether and under what conditions it affects deforestation.
Livestock and Private Tree Holdings in Rural Ethiopia: The Effects of Collective Action Institutions, Tenure Security and Market Access
This article uses househld panel data spanning the period 2000–2007 to test hypotheses from the literature that secure land tenure, market access and collective action promote accumulation of private capital assets in rural highland Ethiopia. The three natural capital assets analysed in the article, livestock, eucalyptus trees and non-eucalyptus trees on households’ farm plots, make up virtually 100 per cent of privately held disposable assets. Incomes and capital stocks are extremely low and constant and tree assets are at least as important as livestock.
The Effect of Land Restitution on Poverty Reduction among the Khomani San “Bushmen” in South Africa
This paper looks at the impact of land restitution involving the Khomani San “bushmen” in the
Kgalagadi area of South Africa. It seeks to investigate the effect of land restitution on poverty
reduction among the beneficiaries. We run two-stage least squares models of access to nature, per
capita income and poverty status on the use of restituted land, among other variables. Our results
suggest that the Khomani San beneficiaries have gotten more access to natural resources but that