Performance of an agro-forestry based Payments-for-Environmental-Services project in Mozambique: A household level analysis

ID:

AFEGM28

Full title:

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the household level impacts of a small scale agro-forestry based carbon sequestration project in rural Mozambique. The project used a Payments-for-Environmental-Services (PES) scheme.The authors used the propensity score matching technique to assess the PES-project impacts on household cash income, consumption expenditure, forest resource use and crop yields.

Publication date:

15 November 2011

Maps:

Agroforestry Evidence Gap Map

Study design:

Propensity Score Matching (PSM)

Regions:

Sub-Saharan Africa

Countries:

Mozambique

Interventions:

Incentive provision