It has often been assumed that payments for watershed services (PWS) would go mostly to poor land users, thus contributing to poverty reduction, but there has been little empirical verification to date. This paper uses data from highland Guatemala to assess the potential for PWS to reduce poverty by examining whether the recipients of payments for environmental services are likely to be poor. The watersheds in which PWS would be feasible due to the...
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2008/07/01
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87059
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2014/04/16
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Assessing the potential for payments for watershed services to reduce poverty in highland Guatemala
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consultative group on international agricultural research