Adoption of Policy Incentives and Land Use: Lessons From Frontier Agriculture in Southeastern Peru

Chavez, Andrea; Perz, Stephen G.

doi:10.1007/s10745-012-9494-3

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“…8 These policies directly address households' decisions to deforest by altering the payoffs to different land uses. Therefore, their effects on land-use change depend on the farmers' livelihood and crop options and the related opportunity costs of altering land uses [98]. This is confirmed by Newton et al's [99] evaluation of the impact of Bolsa Floresta, a PES scheme with an undifferentiated reward structure in the Brazilian Amazon.…”

Section: Key Policiesmentioning

confidence: 78%

Drivers of Households’ Land-Use Decisions: A Critical Review of Micro-Level Studies in Tropical Regions

Hettig

Lay

Sipangule

2016

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This paper reviews 91 recent empirical and theoretical studies that analyzed land-use change at the farm-household level. The review builds on a conceptual framework of land-use change drivers and conducts a meta-analysis. Results show that the conversion of forests into cultivated land or grassland, mainly used for agriculture or ranching, are most frequently analyzed. Only a small number of studies consider the transition of wetlands for agriculture and few cases deal with the conversion from agriculture into protected zones. Moreover, interactions between drivers add to the complexity of land-use change processes. These interrelationships are conditioned by institutions and policies. In particular, the market-oriented reforms adopted by many developing countries in the 1980s and 1990s seem to have had an important role in altering land use, while impacts of more recent policies need to be better explored. Many studies rely on small samples and face problems of internal validity. Despite these weaknesses, the literature points at micro-level economic growth, for example in income and capital endowments, as a strong catalyst of human induced land-use change. However, the review suggests that-across the different studies and cases-there is considerable heterogeneity in the relationship between these factors and land-use change.

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Section: Key Policiesmentioning

confidence: 78%

Drivers of Households’ Land-Use Decisions: A Critical Review of Micro-Level Studies in Tropical Regions

Hettig

Lay

Sipangule

2016

Land

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“…In order to inform REDD+ processes, research studies looked at how previous initiatives to reduce deforestation worked, or how deforestation has been affected by agricultural policies or road development in Peru [89,95]. Information for policy formulation also included analyses of the effects of possible policy options.…”

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Research on Climate Change Policies and Rural Development in Latin America: Scope and Gaps

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Abstract:Research on climate change policies can contribute to policy development by building an understanding of the barriers faced in policy processes, and by providing knowledge needed throughout policy cycles. This paper explores the thematic coverage of research on climate change policies related to rural areas, rural development, and natural resource management in Latin America. A three-tier framework is proposed to analyse the selected literature. The results show that research studies have focussed on the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from forests, and adaptations to climate change in agriculture. There is little policy research on other vulnerable sectors (e.g., water and health) and emitting sectors (e.g., energy and industry) in the context of rural development. Our analysis highlights the various research gaps that deserve increased scientific attention, including: cross-sector approaches, multi-level governance, and the stages of policy adoption, implementation and evaluation. In addition, the selected literature has a limited contribution to theoretical discussions in policy sciences.

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“…Taken together, these findings show how a thoughtfully designed portfolio of policy instruments, or a 'policy mix,' is needed to achieve high levels of enrollment and effectiveness across the MAT Corridor. As shown by Chavez and Perz (2012), a policy mix is often needed in frontier landscapes because individual landholders favor some policies over others, there are limited amounts of available resources to implement policies, and each policy will have varying levels of impact depending on local circumstances.…”

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Designing conservation-development policies for the forest frontier

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The conservation of forests in expanding frontier landscapes is critically important to maintain intact forest ecosystems and support forest dependent communities. To conserve frontier forests, policy approaches are needed that conserve forests and advance the well-being of local resource dependent communities. To identify such approaches, the forest conservation and development framework (FCDF) was designed to find place-based conservation-development policies that target system leveragepoints influencing land-use practices. To demonstrate the utility of the FCDF, a portfolio of conservation-development policies were identified for Peru's Manu-Tambopata Corridor (MAT) and evaluated by local land-users. Results of the MAT case study show high levels of interest in the proposed policies, but a wide variation in interest levels relative to personal circumstances and policies proposed. Barriers to implementing conservation-development policies in frontier environments were also identified, including high value land-use alternatives generating high opportunity costs for accepting PES payments (e.g., REDD?), insecure land tenure and conflicting authorizations limiting land-users policy choices, and broad demographic diversity among local land-users. Collectively, this research suggests the FCDF is a useful approach for identifying policies matched to local conditions that advance conservation and human development. This research also indicates policy design in frontier environments is most effective when adapted to local conditions, seeks to identify a mix of complementary policies, and is targeted at key system variables influencing land-use practices (i.e., system leverage-points). Importantly, the MAT case study also highlights how even in rapidly changing frontier landscapes, land-users are interested in policies that advance conservation and development goals.

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Adoption of Policy Incentives and Land Use: Lessons From Frontier Agriculture in Southeastern Peru

Cited by 23 publications

References 40 publications

Drivers of Households’ Land-Use Decisions: A Critical Review of Micro-Level Studies in Tropical Regions

Drivers of Households’ Land-Use Decisions: A Critical Review of Micro-Level Studies in Tropical Regions

Research on Climate Change Policies and Rural Development in Latin America: Scope and Gaps

Designing conservation-development policies for the forest frontier

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