Bundling environmental services’ payments and encouraging Sample Clauses

Bundling environmental services’ payments and encouraging local farmers to invest in carbon-rich land uses for better income With the current level of PES payments in the study areas at just 2–3 USD/ha for watershed functions, according to Decree 99 (see Table 6), and around 1–5 USD/ha for carbon (applied estimation from OPCOST modeling in Dak Nong for forest conversion to shifting cultivation (Palm et al., in press), the total income from PES would be around 3–8 USD/ha (equal to 60 000– 160 000 VND/ha, with an exchange rate of USD 1 = VND 20 000). This is much less compared to what farmers need for their livelihood, which ranges from 3 million to 6 million VND/ha/year. Ideally, local farmers would be supported to shift from current unstainable practices to carbon-rich land use that can provide both PES payments for carbon and water as well as a good income from land-use products. The main land-use issues found from PRA/RRA in the four villages that are representative for the three study districts of Na Ri, Ba Be and Pak Nam in Bac Kan province are shown in Table 7. Given the high dependence of local people on forest resources, some of the current practices observed during the study are considered unsustainable because they would potentially degrade forest and forest land faster than it can recover under local conditions. Those uses are slash and burn, illegal logging, agriculture on sloping and forest land, mono-cropping of maize, and unrestricted cattle grazing. Table 6. Estimation of PES according to Decree 99 No. Step Source/Implementer Output 1 Mapping of border of Nang River watershed National Institute of Agricultural Planning and Projections (NIAPP) Topography map of Nang River watershed (scale: 1/50 000) with watershed border 3 Estimating amount to be paid by Na Hang hydropower plant Report on commodity electricity of Na Hang hydropower plant (2009 and 2010) Commodity electricity of Na Hang hydropower plant: 1238 million KWh in 2009 and 1005 million KWh in 2010. Estimated payment by Na Hang hydropower plant: 13 billion VND/year in 2009 and 12 billion VND/year in 2010 4 Estimation of amount of PES payment per hectare of forest in Nang River watershed Outputs of Steps 2 and 3; K-factor is assumed to be 1 for all types of forest PES amount for 1 ha of forest in Ba Be, Pac Nam and Na Hang districts paid by Na Hang hydropower plant: 53 206 VND/ha/year in 2010 Table 7. Unsustainable land-use practices in the study villages (PRA/RRA survey, 2011) Unstainable practices Xxx Xxx Khuoi Xxxx To Dooc and Na Muc Main ...
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