P4ges: Can paying for global ecosystem services reduce poverty?

P4ges: Can paying for global ecosystem services reduce poverty?

P4ges project sought to address a key question: How can international ecosystem service payment schemes most effectively reduce poverty in low income countries, given bio-physical, economic and political realities?

I led the socio-economic work package within the project. I led the design of household surveys; coordinated data collection in rural Madagascar; and led socioeconomic data management and archiving within the project, with two datasets archived with ReShare UK. My blog posts and publications related to this project are listed below.

Posts

BBC News wrote “Climate compensation schemes ‘failing to reach poorest’” covering our recently published paper …

Notes from a rural study site Antenina Commune, North-Eastern Madagascar, 6 February 2015 Every time I come to the field in Madagascar …

All of the WP6 in-depth sites are purposively selected based on a set of criteria, such as their distance from the protected areas (new …

The teacher, the porter and the translator Moramanga, 21 August 2014 He kept repeating the word mahafinaritra (pronounced maaf-na-tra — …

What proportion of individual income goes into bribes in Madagascar?

‘We simply do not know’ is the answer to above …

Challenging fieldworks: lions or lice 31 July 2014, near Moramanga Thinking of challenging fieldworks, I’ve had to come …

Where have the Indris gone? 10 July 2014, near Moramanga For the first time in this field trip, I heard Indri the other day as I was …

Publications