Best management practices (BMPs) for reducing agricultural non-point source pollution are
widely available. However, agriculture remains a major global contributor to degradation of …

We develop a theory of change for payments for environmental services (PES) to review
their imminent strengths and weaknesses in light of a growing body of impact evaluation …

The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector encompasses managed
ecosystems and offers significant mitigation opportunities while delivering food, wood and …

Recent decades have witnessed a considerable increase in Payments for Ecosystem
Services (PES)—programmes that exchange value for land management practices intended …

We evaluated a program of payments for ecosystem services in Uganda that offered forest-
owning households annual payments of 70,000 Ugandan shillings per hectare if they …

We adopt a theory-based approach to synthesize research on the effectiveness of payments
for environmental services in achieving environmental objectives and socio-economic co …

Between 2004 and 2012, multiple policies contributed to one of the great conservation
successes of the twenty-first century—an 84% decrease in the rate of Brazilian Amazon …

An important part of conservation practice is the empirical evaluation of program and policy
impacts. Understanding why conservation programs succeed or fail is essential for …

Land use is regulated through various mixes of command-and-control interventions that
directly affect land use via land use restrictions, and other public interventions that indirectly …

This article presents a meta-analysis of what drives deforestation and what stops it, based
on a comprehensive database of 121 spatially explicit econometric studies of deforestation …