Payments for agrobiodiversity conservation services - related publications
A set of policy briefs, factsheets, research findings, technical notes and journal articles about Bioversity International's work on Payments for agrobiodiversity conservation services.
Case studies, blogs and news items
- A case study of amaranth in Cusco, Peru (2019)
- Your Quinoa Habit Really Did Help Peru's Poor. But There's Trouble Ahead - in NPR's The Salt
- Q is for quinoa - in The Economist's letters to the editor
- Injecting diversity to bolster immunity to climate change and food insecurity - Bioversity International news (2018)
- Learning from the Andeans and safeguarding crop diversity in mountain communities in China - Bioversity International news
- Cooperation and competition to conserve native diversity in Peru - Bioversity International news (2016)
- Incentives to conserve agricultural biodiversity: Peru at the forefront - Bioversity International news
Journal articles
- Drucker, A.G.; Ramirez, M. (2020) Payments for agrobiodiversity conservation services: An overview of Latin American experiences, lessons learned and upscaling challenges. Land Use Policy 99:104810 9 p. ISSN: 0264-8377
- Nordhagen, S., Pascual, U., Drucker, A. 2017. Feeding the Household, Growing the Business, or Just Showing Off? Farmers' Motivations for Crop Diversity Choices in Papua New Guinea Ecological Economics
- Midler, E.; Pascual, U., Drucker, A.G., Narloch, U., Soto, J.L. 2015 (online). Unraveling the effects of payments for ecosystem services on motivations for collective action. Ecological Economics.
- Narloch, U., Drucker, A.G., Pascual, U. 2015 (online). What role for cooperation in conservation tenders? Paying farmer groups in the High Andes. Land Use Policy (Special Issue on Competitive Tenders)
- Martin-Collado, D., Diaz, C., Drucker, A.G., Carabaño, M.J., Zander, K.K. 2014. Determination of non-market values to inform conservation strategies for the threatened Alistana-Sanabresa cattle breed. Animal. 3:1-9
- Samuel, A., Drucker, A.G., Andersen, S.B., Simianer, H., van Zonneveld, M. 2013. Development of a cost-effective diversity-maximizing decision-support tool for in situ crop genetic resources conservation: the case of cacao. Ecological Economics, 96:155–164.
- Zander, K.K., Signorello, G., de Salvo, M., Gandini, G., Drucker, A.G. 2013. Assessing the total economic value of threatened livestock breeds in Italy: Implications for conservation policy. Ecological Economics 93: 219-229.
- Narloch, U., Pascual, U. and Drucker A.G. 2013. How to achieve fairness in payments for ecosystem services? Insights from agrobiodiversity conservation auctions. Land Use Policy 35:107-118.
- Krishna, V., Drucker A.G., Pascual, U., Raghu P. T., King, E. D. I. O. 2013. Estimating compensation payments for on-farm conservation of agricultural biodiversity in developing countries. Ecological Economics 87:110-123
- Narloch, U., Pascual, U. and Drucker A.G. 2012. Collective Action Dynamics under External Rewards: Experimental Insights from Andean Farming Communities. World Development. Vol. 40 (10): pp. 2096–2107
- Narloch, U., Drucker A.G. and Pascual, U. 2011. Cost-effectiveness targeting under multiple conservation goals and equity considerations in the Andes. Environmental Conservation 38(4):417-425
- Narloch, U., Drucker A.G. and Pascual, U. 2011. Payments for agrobiodiversity conservation services (PACS) for sustained on-farm utilization of plant and animal genetic resources'. Ecological Economics 70(11):1837-1845.
Research Findings
- Research findings (Bolivia/Peru 1): Competitive tenders: Designing agrobiodiversity conservation programmes so as to minimise costs while maximising social equity
- Research findings (Bolivia/Peru 2): Payment for agrobiodiversity conservation services (PACS) and implications for institutions of collective action
- Research findings (India 1): Assessing the risk status of minor millets in the Kolli Hills, Tamil Nadu, India
- Research findings (India 2): Assessing farmer willingness to participate in minor millet conservation programmes and estimating conservation programme costs
Technical Notes
- Technical Note 1: Weitzman’s 'Noah’s Ark Problem'- how to identify agrobiodiversity conservation priorities
- Technical Note 2: Competitive tenders for the conservation of local plant and animal genetic resources
- Technical Note 3: Identifying in situ conservation goals: a safe minimum standards approach
- Technical Brief 4: Collective action, property rights and payments for agrobiodiversity conservation services (PACS)
Book chapter
- Drucker, A.G., Pascual, U., Narloch, U., Midler, E., Soto, J.L., Pinto, M.; Valdivia, E. and Rojas, W. 2014. Los pagos voluntarios para la conservación de la diversidad de la quinua: explorando el papel de los pagos por servicios ambientales en los Andes. Chapter 1.7 in: Bazile, D. et al. (eds.), Estado del arte de la quinua en el mundo en 2013. FAO
Other
- Video - Developing incentives for farmers to conserve agrobiodiversity for the public good
- Video: Guardianes de la Quinua
- Drucker, A.G., Padulosi, S. and Jager, M. 2013. No free lunches: PES and the funding of agricultural biodiversity conservation. Insights from a competitive tender for quinoa-related conservation services in Bolivia and Peru (opens PDF hosted on FAO website)
- Should farmers get paid for providing ecosystem services? Farming Matters, June 2010 - 26.2
- Harvesting quinoa diversity with payment for agricultural biodiversity conservation services - a story of progress. 2013.
- Economics of Agricultural Biodiversity and Use: Further Reading List (488 KB)