David Zilberman (University of California at Berkeley) Leslie Lipper (Agricultural and Development Economics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization) Nancy McCarthy (International Food Policy Research Institute, IFPRI)
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The impact of payment for environmental services (PES) on poverty varies. Generally, PES is good for landowners and may negatively affect consumers if food demand is inelastic. Impacts also depend on the correlation between poverty and environmental amenities. If the richer farmers also provide the best environmental services (ES), then the poor farmers may lose. If there is negative correlation between ES and productivity, then the poorer landowners may gain from ES. The distribution of land matters. If smallholders depend on earnings from work on larger farms, then PES may affect them negatively. Program specifications also matter. Working land programs may have better distributional effects then PES for land diversion.
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Paper provided by Agricultural and Development Economics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO - ESA) in its series Working Papers with number
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Length: 40 pages Date of creation: 2006 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:fao:wpaper:0604
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