Reducing Hunger with Payments for Ecosystem Services : Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso
Does financial compensation for providing environmental conservation, improve the food security of the rural poor in the drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa? This paper explores this question using data from a randomized controlled trial of a large scal...
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okr-10986-322672022-09-05T00:22:59Z Reducing Hunger with Payments for Ecosystem Services : Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso Adjognon, Guigonan Serge van Soest, Daan Guthoff, Jonas ECOSYSTEM ACCOUNTING ECOSYSTEM SERVICES HUNGER FOOD SECURITY REFORESTATION REDD+ ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION Does financial compensation for providing environmental conservation, improve the food security of the rural poor in the drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa? This paper explores this question using data from a randomized controlled trial of a large scale reforestation implemented by the Government of Burkina Faso. Members of communities located around selected protected forests were invited to plant indigenous tree species on degraded areas, and to take care of their maintenance. The financial compensation they would receive depended on the number of trees still alive a year later. The vast majority of the community members participating in the project were farmers, and the timing of the payments coincided with the lean season, when most farmers were at risk of food insecurity. Compared with the control group, the project's participants' households reported 12 percent higher food consumption expenditures, and a reduction in moderate and severe food insecurity by 35 percent to 60 percent. The transfers received were spent mostly on cereals, meat, and pulses, with no evidence of increased consumption of temptation goods. 2019-08-16T15:10:20Z 2019-08-16T15:10:20Z 2019-08 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/234661565613345896/Reducing-Hunger-with-Payments-for-Ecosystem-Services-PES-Experimental-Evidence-from-Burkina-Faso http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32267 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8974 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Burkina Faso |
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ECOSYSTEM ACCOUNTING ECOSYSTEM SERVICES HUNGER FOOD SECURITY REFORESTATION REDD+ ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION Adjognon, Guigonan Serge van Soest, Daan Guthoff, Jonas Reducing Hunger with Payments for Ecosystem Services : Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso |
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Does financial compensation for
providing environmental conservation, improve the food
security of the rural poor in the drylands of Sub-Saharan
Africa? This paper explores this question using data from a
randomized controlled trial of a large scale reforestation
implemented by the Government of Burkina Faso. Members of
communities located around selected protected forests were
invited to plant indigenous tree species on degraded areas,
and to take care of their maintenance. The financial
compensation they would receive depended on the number of
trees still alive a year later. The vast majority of the
community members participating in the project were farmers,
and the timing of the payments coincided with the lean
season, when most farmers were at risk of food insecurity.
Compared with the control group, the project's
participants' households reported 12 percent higher
food consumption expenditures, and a reduction in moderate
and severe food insecurity by 35 percent to 60 percent. The
transfers received were spent mostly on cereals, meat, and
pulses, with no evidence of increased consumption of
temptation goods. |
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Working Paper |
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Adjognon, Guigonan Serge van Soest, Daan Guthoff, Jonas |
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Adjognon, Guigonan Serge van Soest, Daan Guthoff, Jonas |
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Adjognon, Guigonan Serge |
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Reducing Hunger with Payments for Ecosystem Services : Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso |
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Reducing Hunger with Payments for Ecosystem Services : Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso |
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Reducing Hunger with Payments for Ecosystem Services : Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso |
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Reducing Hunger with Payments for Ecosystem Services : Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso |
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Reducing Hunger with Payments for Ecosystem Services : Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso |
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reducing hunger with payments for ecosystem services : experimental evidence from burkina faso |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2019 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/234661565613345896/Reducing-Hunger-with-Payments-for-Ecosystem-Services-PES-Experimental-Evidence-from-Burkina-Faso http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32267 |
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