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Household participation in a Payments for Environmental Services programme: the Nhambita Forest Carbon Project (Mozambique)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2014

Ravi Hegde ,
Gary Q. Bull ,
Sven Wunder  and
Robert A. Kozak
Ravi Hegde
Affiliation:
Horticulture Australia, Economic Analysis, 3 Sligo Place, Prestons, NSW 2170, Australia. Tel: 61-2-98268372. E-mail: [email protected]
Gary Q. Bull
Affiliation:
Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. E-mail: [email protected]
Sven Wunder
Affiliation:
Center for International Forestry Research, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected]
Robert A. Kozak
Affiliation:
Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Quantitative research on household participation in the Payments for Environmental Services (PES) programme remains scarce. This paper aims to determine the key factors influencing household participation in a PES programme in Mozambique. Questionnaire-based quarterly surveys were conducted with 290 randomly selected households. We used the instrumental variables technique to identify the factors influencing household participation. The instrumental variables used for forest dependence were: household head born in the village, duration of residence of the household head in the village, ethnicity of the household head, business ownership of the household head and off-farm income of the household. The results show that education of household head and households' trust towards community members positively influenced household participation in PES, while forest dependence influenced it negatively. Future PES projects may thus need to focus more on developing social capital and the resource dependence of households.

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Environment and Development Economics , Volume 20 , Issue 5 , October 2015 , pp. 611 - 629
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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