Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations- FAO
Payments for Environmental Services (PES) from Agricultural Landscapes
PES and the poor
Synergies
Reducing poverty and enhancing the provision of environmental services are two distinct policy objectives that would need to be addressed separately. However there is the interest towards multi-objective PES programmes.
In many cases there is strong potential for poor farmers to supply environmental services and to participate in PES schemes. Nevertheless, it should be noted that poverty reduction and environmental protection are two distinct policy objectives and using one policy instrument to reach both objectives could reduce its effectiveness in achieving either. This requires a good understanding in how PES programmes can be designed to maximize poverty reduction and minimize possible negative effects, whilst not undermining the achievement of their environmental goals- for more on this see the section providing guidance on Setting up a PES Scheme.
