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Household participation in a payments for Environmental Services Program : the Nhambita Forest Carbon Project (Mozambique) Hegde, Ravi; Bull, Gary; Wunder, Sven; Kozak, Robert A.

Abstract

Quantitative research on the household participation in Payments for Environmental Services (PES) program remains scarce. This paper aims to determine the key factors influencing household participation in a PES program in Mozambique. Questionnaire based quarterly surveys were conducted of 290 randomly selected households. We used Instrumental Variables technique to identify the factors influencing household participation. The instrumental variables used for forest dependence were household head born in the village, duration of residence of the household head in the village, ethnicity of the household head, business ownership of the household head, and off-farm income of the household. The results show that education of household head and households’ trust towards community members positively influenced household participation in PES, while forest dependence influenced it negatively. Future PES projects may thus need to focus more on developing social capital and resource dependence of households.

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Title
Household participation in a payments for Environmental Services Program : the Nhambita Forest Carbon Project (Mozambique)
Creator
Hegde, Ravi; Bull, Gary; Wunder, Sven; Kozak, Robert A.
Date Issued
2015
Description
Quantitative research on the household participation in Payments for Environmental Services (PES) program remains scarce. This paper aims to determine the key factors influencing household participation in a PES program in Mozambique. Questionnaire based quarterly surveys were conducted of 290 randomly selected households. We used Instrumental Variables technique to identify the factors influencing household participation. The instrumental variables used for forest dependence were household head born in the village, duration of residence of the household head in the village, ethnicity of the household head, business ownership of the household head, and off-farm income of the household. The results show that education of household head and households’ trust towards community members positively influenced household participation in PES, while forest dependence influenced it negatively. Future PES projects may thus need to focus more on developing social capital and resource dependence of households.
Subject
PES; instrumental variables; household surveys; agro-forestry; carbon sequestration; household participation; Mozambique
Genre
Article; Postprint
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2015-10-24
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada
DOI
10.14288/1.0074717
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54861
Affiliation
Forest Resources Management, Department of; Forestry, Faculty of; Non UBC
Citation
Hegde, R., Bull, G.Q., Wunder, S., & Kozak, R. (2014). Household participation in a payments for environmental services programme: The Nhambita forest carbon project (Mozambique). Environment and Development Economics, 20(05), 611-629.
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Researcher
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/
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