Designing REDD+ Schemes to Address Permanence Concerns: Empirical Evidence from Kenya
| dc.creator | Veronesi, Marcella | |
| dc.creator | Schlondorn, Tim | |
| dc.creator | Zabel, Astrid | |
| dc.creator | Engel, Stefanie | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T19:32:59Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T06:05:14Z | |
| dc.description | Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) is an important topic in the debate on policies to mitigate climate change. This is the first study to test and compare the environmental impact of different REDD+ payment schemes in the field, and provide some insights on the effectiveness of different policies with respect to the permanence of forest-based emission reductions. This study implements a stated preference experiment of time allocation in the unique setting of the Kasigau Corridor REDD+ Project in Kenya, where charcoaling is a major source of forest degradation. The impact on time allocation is analyzed under the presumption that a hypothetical agricultural policy or an eco-charcoaling policy was introduced. We find that a policy that indexes eco-charcoal payments to charcoalers’ opportunity costs is the most effective policy in providing permanence in REDD+: it lowers the amount of labor allocated to charcoaling even at high charcoal prices. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.124131 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/124131/files/Veronesi_Designing%20REDD_%20Schemes%20to%20Address%20Permanence%20Concerns.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/124131 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/572189 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/124131 | |
| dc.title | Designing REDD+ Schemes to Address Permanence Concerns: Empirical Evidence from Kenya | |
| dc.type | Text |