Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations- FAO
Payments for Environmental Services (PES) from Agricultural Landscapes
PES Links
International organizations
| Forest Trends, an NGO working to promote incentives and accelerating the evolution of economic systems that will result in the maintenance and restoration of forest ecosystems. |
| As part of their team, the Ecosystem Marketplace provides information on markets and payment schemes for ecosystem services to bridge the gap between buyers and sellers on their website. It offers updates on the 4 main markets, and particularly carbon, also though a series of specialized newsletters: Marketplace eNewsletter, V-Carbon News, Mitigation Mail, or Community Forum. |
| The Katoomba Group, an international working group composed of leading experts from forest and energy industries, research institutions, the financial world and environmental NGOs, seeks to address the key challenges for developing markets for ecosystem services. |
| Communities, Conservation and Markets project. A World Bank joint project with the Ecoagriculture Partners and the Katoomba Group that provides support to rural resource managers to manage their landscapes using ecoagriculture approaches and payments for ecosystem services (PES). |
| Ecoagriculture Partners, an NGO who works to improve knowledge and capacity to manage agriculture activities to achieve three complementary goals: to enhance rural livelihoods, conserve biodiversity and sustainably produce crops, livestock, fish, and forest products. On their website its possible to download resource materials and read about case studies. |
| PES research and guidelines at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) |
| PES research and guidelines at the Centre for International Forestry Research(CIFOR) See also ZEF-CIFOR workshop: Payments for environmental services in developed and developing countries- expert papers available at http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/pes/_ref/news_events/events/germany/papers.htm and the Toolbox for sustainable forest management |
| Work on economics and the environment, including PES, at The World Conservation Union (IUCN) |
| World Bank PES page providing guidelines on PES Design, pro-poor options and links to their own PES portfolio |
| PES page -Pro-poor Market for Ecosystem Services at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) |
| PREM -Poverty reduction and environmental management. Research and policy analysis in environmental and resource economics in developing countries, specifically focused on the relationship between poverty and the environment. See for example the projects on PES for improved watershed management in Tanzania and The Philippines. |
| The Natural Capital Project is developing global support system to advance the mapping, modelling, measuring, and valuing of ecosystem services as well as to promote incorporation of these values into decision-making. |
