CASCADE project promotes adaptation to climate change in vulnerable communities of smallholder farmers in Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala, through Ecosystem-based Adaptation strategies (EbA). In
CATIE and Conservation International joined forces to work together in research and capacity building to bring impacts at both the policy and field implementation scale. Central American smallholder…
The conference is organized by Ecosystem Service Partnership and the workshop by CGIAR, ICRAF and CIFOR. Martin Persson EfD Research Associate has been invited to give a presentation in one of the…
CALL FOR PAPERS: Centro Vernon Smith announces a three-day international conference to be held in Antigua Guatemala, October 25th-27th, 2012. The Centro Vernon Smith de Economía Experimental is…
Costa Rica has shown how a small developing country can reverse environmental degradation and one of the highest deforestation rates in Latin America. Key to its achievement has been the country’s PES programme, which began in 1997 and which many countries are now looking to learn from, especially as water markets and schemes to reward forest conservation and reduced deforestation (REDD+) grow.
Payments for ecosystem services in Costa Rica: Does it matter who gets paid and why for the efficiency of payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs aimed to reduce deforestation and forest
Organic grain producers exhibited a diversity of motivations, including profit and stewardship.
Resultados de estudio económico y línea base de las actividades de los funcionarios en el Parque Nacional Corcovado y Marino Ballena
Rigorous, objective evaluation of forest conservation policies in developing countries is needed to ensure that the limited financial, human, and political resources devoted to these policies are put to good use. Yet such evaluations remain uncommon.
According to proponents, voluntary agreements (VAs) negotiated with polluters sidestep weak institutions and other barriers to conventional environmental regulation in developing countries. Yet little is known about their effectiveness.