2007 PES policy seminars
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Seminars explore payments for ecosystem services
"Pro-Poor Payment for Ecosystem Services" was the topic for an Oct. 4 policy seminar, the second in a series sponsored by SANREM CRSP and USAID for the federal agency’s personnel and guests.
Payments for environmental services (PES) is a new economic instrument being used to promote development and reduce poverty. Key speakers for the daylong session were John Kerr and Rohit Jundal, Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies, Michigan State University; Theo Dillaha, SANREM CRSP program director; Paul Ferraro, Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University; and Sven Wunder, senior economist with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Belem, Brazil, a SANREM partner.
The full-day seminar, also sponsored by the BASIS CRSP, was held at Virginia Tech's Northern Virginia Center in Falls Church. It followed a July 13 midday session featuring presentations by economist Wunder and Bruce Byers of ARD Inc.