Farmers’ perspectives on payments for ecosystem services in Uganda

摘要: Abstract Payments for ecosystem services (PES) is a market based policy tool that increasingly being recommended effective and sustainable management of watersheds, especially Sub-Saharan Africa, where soil watershed degradation are currently very severe. The design PES projects challenging insights in the local context indispensable. Using choice experiment, this study investigates perspective farmers on program Mount Elgon region Uganda. We use mixed logit latent class models to reveal explain preference heterogeneity attributes. calculate willingness accept values perform cost analysis identify most cost-efficient programs. Our results point strong participate contract. majority willing adopt different conservation measures, even absence compensation; minority strongly averse buffer strips along river do require significant compensation. find have preferences individual over communal compensation, additional in-kind rewards form labour assistance or tools increase findings imply promising avenue improved region; differentiation specific targeting such programs may benefit their effectiveness.