Changing environments

Agroforestry projects have the potential to help mitigate global warming by acting as sinks for greenhouse gasses. However, participation in [...]

Many dryland regions are considered less favoured areas as they face a variety of either biophysical or socio-economic constraints to [...]

The impact of payment for environmental services (PES) on poverty varies. Generally, PES is good for landowners and may negatively [...]

Improving agricultural productivity and farm level resilience to agricultural production shocks is a critical component of reducing poverty and improving [...]

We review claims about the potential for carbon markets that link both payments for carbon services and poverty levels to [...]

We summarize existing theoretical claims linking poverty to rates of deforestation and then examine this linkage empirically for Costa Rica [...]

The understatement or omission of the environmental costs and benefits associated with forest management options results in project evaluations and [...]

Land use change is a key requirement for improving rural incomes and making a significant reduction in poverty levels globally. [...]

This paper provides an assessment of the potential for smallholder agroforestry projects to be competitive in markets for carbon emission [...]

Since 1988 the ejido sector in Mexico has been buffeted by a series of policy changes and exogenous shocks that [...]