Paying smallholders not to cut down the Amazon forest: impact evaluation of a REDD+ pilot project.

Authors
  • SIMONET Gabriela
  • SUBERVIE Julie
  • EZZINE DE BLAS Driss
  • CROMBERG Marina
  • DUCHELLE Amy
Publication date
2020
Publication type
Other
Summary We estimate the additional effects of a REDD+ pilot project offering Payments for Envi-ronmental Services to reduce deforestation by smallholders in the Brazilian Amazon. We collected original data from 181 individual farmers. We use DID-matching and find evi-dence that supports the parallel trend assumption. We estimate that an average of 4 ha of forest have been saved on each participating farm in 2014, at the expense of pastures versus croplands. This amounts to a decrease in the deforestation rate of about 50 percent. We find no evidence of leakage effects. Finally, we find that the project is cost-effective.
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