The authors are members of the team that prepared and is implementing the RISEMP project. Stefano Pagiola, Paola Agostini, Cees de Haan, and Juan Pablo Ruíz are at the World Bank; José Gobbi and Muhammad Ibrahim at CATIE (Costa Rica); Enrique Murgueitio at CIPAV (Colombia); Elías Ramírez at Nitlapan (Nicaragua); and Mauricio Rosales at LEAD-FAO.
The opinions expressed in this paper are the authors’ own and do not necessarily reflect those of the World Bank, CATIE, CIPAV, Nitlapan, or LEAD-FAO. We would like to thank Ken Chomitz, John Kellenberg, Agustin Arcenas, and Benjamin Kiersch for helpful comments and suggestions. An earlier draft of this paper was presented at the Third BioEcon Workshop, Contract Mechanisms for Biodiversity Conservation, Montpellier, France, May 22-24, 2003; comments from participants at that workshop are also gratefully acknowledged.