Designing payment for ecosystem services to harmonize agriculture and environment in southeast Asia

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26281052
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Environmental and ecological symbiosis
• Research Institution: Shijonawate Gakuen University
• Principal Investigator: Kada Ryohei 四條畷学園大学, リハビリテーション学部, 教授 (90111947)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 田中 勝也 滋賀大学, 学内共同利用施設等, 准教授 (20397938) ; 吉田 謙太郎 長崎大学, その他の研究科, 教授 (30344097) ; 湯本 貴和 京都大学, 霊長類研究所, 教授 (70192804) ; 市川 昌広 高知大学, 自然科学系, 教授 (80390706) ; 宗村 広昭 島根大学, 生物資源科学部, 准教授 (90403443)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 生態系サービス / 環境保全型農業 / 環境支払制度 / インドネシア / プランテーション農業 / フィリピン

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research examines the management of land-use system in the catchment area of Upper Sekampung, Indonesia and Laguna Lake area in the Philippines, with respect to the ecosystem health and resilience of the watershed. Schemes of payment for environmental services (PES) and eco-certification schemes where coffee farmers can voluntarily choose to comply with eco-friendly practices. An important key for policy advocacy in the future is by building up partnership the above mentioned tasks with locally organized leaders and major steakholders involved in land use changes affecting ecological risks at the landscape and regional level. It includes (1) awareness on ecological degraradtion, complex, diverse and specific local conditions, (2) observation based on scientific data collection and reporting system partly collected by local people, (3) identification of potential risks, analysis and evaluation, and (4) action by goverments, legislative actions, and science for community.

Free Research Field

環境経済学