Evaluation of the Permanence of Land Use Change Induced by Payments for Environmental Services in Quindío, Colombia.

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Author(s): Pagiola S;Pagiola S; Honey-Rosés J; Honey-Rosés J; Freire-González J; Freire-González J
Source:
PloS one [PLoS One] 2016 Mar 01; Vol. 11 (3), pp. e0147829. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Mar 01 (Print Publication: 2016).
Publication Type:
Evaluation Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Language:
English

Additional Information
- Source:
  Publisher: Public Library of Science Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101285081 Publication Model: eCollection Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1932-6203 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 19326203 NLM ISO Abbreviation: PLoS One Subsets: MEDLINE
- Publication Information:
  Original Publication: San Francisco, CA : Public Library of Science
- Subject Terms:
  Agriculture/*economics ; Conservation of Natural Resources/*economics; Agriculture/trends ; Animals ; Colombia ; Family Characteristics ; Forests ; Grassland ; Humans ; Livestock ; Middle Aged ; Natural Resources
- Abstract:
  The effectiveness of conservation interventions such as Payments for Environmental Services (PES) is often evaluated--if it is evaluated at all--only at the completion of the intervention. Since gains achieved by the intervention may be lost after it ends, even apparently successful interventions may not result in long-term conservation benefits, a problem known as that of permanence. This paper uses a unique dataset to examine the permanence of land use change induced by a short-term, asset-building PES program implemented in Quindío, Colombia, between 2003 and 2008. This the first PES program to have a control group for comparison. Under this program, PES had been found to have a positive and highly significant impact on land use. To assess the long-term permanence of these changes, both PES recipients and control households were re-surveyed in 2011, four years after the last payment was made. We find that the land use changes that had been induced by PES were broadly sustained in intervening years, with minor differences across specific practices and sub-groups of participants, indicating that these changes were in fact permanent. The patterns of change in the period after the PES program was completed also help better understand the reasons for the program's success. These results suggest that, at least in the case of productive land uses such as silvopastoral practices under conditions such as those at the study site, asset-building PES programs can be effective at encouraging land owners to adopt environmentally-beneficial land management practices and that the benefits will persist after payments cease.
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- Publication Date:
  Date Created: 20160302 Date Completed: 20160721 Latest Revision: 20191210
- Publication Date:
  20240513
- Accession Number:
  PMC4773100
- Accession Number:
  10.1371/journal.pone.0147829
- Accession Number:
  26930668

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