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1 Hope, R. A.; Porras, I.; Borgoyary, M.; Miranda, M.; Agarwal, C.; Tiwari, S.; Amezaga, J. M. 2007. Negotiating watershed services. London, UK: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) 22p. (IIED Markets for Environmental Services 11)
Watershed management ; Farmers attitudes ; Stakeholders ; Land use ; Constraints ; Agreements ; Farm management / Costa Rica / India / Kolans watershed / Bhoj wetlands / Madhya Pradesh / Bhopal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042247)
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In response to the disappointing results of many regulatory or public investment approaches to watershed management, payments for environmental services has emerged as a new mechanism to maintain socially optimal environmental services by compensating people for the services they provide. However, without adequate understanding of stakeholders’ willingness to modify or maintain land use or water resource decisions, market-based mechanisms may prove to be unsustainable, with uncertain social and environmental outcomes. Negotiating resource use patterns is a process that requires an understanding of the type, level and duration of incentives for stakeholders to co-operate meaningfully. In this paper, we describe a negotiation support framework that has been developed from the literature and field experiences in Costa Rica and India. The framework then serves to critically examine a case study from each country to draw empirical lessons from the inherently political and contested process of watershed management.
2 Hope, R.; Borgoyary, M.; Agarwal, C. 2008. Smallholder preferences for agri-environmental change at the Bhoj Wetland, India. Development Policy Review, 26(5):585-602.
Smallholders ; Farmers ; Organic agriculture ; Wetlands ; Models ; Incentives ; Watersheds / India / Bhoj wetlands / Madhya Pradesh / Kolans watershed
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044289)
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Incentive-based approaches have gained policy interest in linking change in agricultural land management with environmental conservation. This article investigates how scheme design influences smallholder farmers’decisions to switch to organic farming to reduce water pollution, drawing on a study at a Ramsar wetland site providing water for the city of Bhopal. Results from a choice experiment suggest that transitional payments are necessary to overcome farmer constraints to adopt organic farming, and that effective land certification has the potential to act as a self-enforcing mechanism linking farmer incomes with wetland conservation benefits.
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