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CIFOR–ICRAF publishes over 750 publications every year on agroforestry, forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy and much more – in multiple languages.

CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

We deliver actionable evidence and solutions to transform how land is used and how food is produced: conserving and restoring ecosystems, responding to the global climate, malnutrition, biodiversity and desertification crises. In short, improving people’s lives.

Understanding risk and coping strategies in forest-agriculture landscapes: Can the structure of environmental incentives (as credit, insurance or payments) influence land use behavior?

The research aims to link the various strands of work relating to PES, risks and insurance by: 1) Examining how farmers with different levels of farming intensity and forest dependence are exposed to risks related to climatic, market-based and resource tenure/access and resulting income fluctuations, and the livelihood strategies that they use to reduce exposure to, and cope with, risks. 2) Examining how environmental incentives can be better structured for effective and sustained behavior change to achieve the desired environmental outcomes. We will use experimental economic methods to assess preferences for the delivery of incentives as direct payments, formal credit and insurance against risk. Results of this research will be of particular interest to institutions in the rural development sector, and institutions developing or implementing environmental incentive systems such as PES or REDD+.

Dataset's Files

CDE report_landcover_analysis_ch_20151015.pdf
MD5: 5bd3296b5efe7e1d29eb24e8b2947360
Report on the land cover analysis for the study area in Laos
Authors

Wong, G

Publication date

2016-12-02

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.17528/CIFOR/DATA.00050

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