Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/73010 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 63.2012
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
Eco-entrepreneurs in developing countries are often subject to market or institutional constraints, e.g. via credit rationing or missing markets. Conservation interventions which relax constraints may be both cost-effective and poverty reducing. A simulation using data from an intervention in Madagascar to relax the technological constraints of forest honey production investigates this possibility. Cost-effectively achieving dual environment-development goals is shown to depend on the severity of constraints, relative prices and, importantly, the nature of technology. Success is more likely for technologies exhibiting close to constant returns to scale or high input complementarity. Forest honey does not meet these requirements, whereas sustainable forest management may well do. Ultimately, where market or institutional constraints are present, knowledge of the recipient technology is required for more informed, efficient and perhaps, more politically-acceptable conservation policy.
Subjects: 
Payments for Environmental Services (PES)
Market Constraints
Cost-Effectiveness
Efficiency
JEL: 
H21
Q28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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