Malawi economic monitor, February 2024
Watersheds play a crucial role in sustaining the ecosystem, biodiversity, wildlife, agriculture, and human population by serving as the natural resource base for all forms of life. These natural boundaries
Watershed Development
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Rising prices and issues of governance
Effective management from the production stage to the distribution stage is necessary to maintain the price line. The PDS has a crucial role in ensuring this. The prices of essential articles and commodities have been rising over the last several months, and the life of the poor people, the common person and the middle classes has become miserable. The government has initiated certain steps to control prices, but their impact is insufficient to compensate for the suffering.
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WB to help raise forest cover
The Forest Department will soon finalise the mechanism for making payments to farmers under the carbon credit scheme for raising forests on private and community land as part of the World Bank-funded Mid-Himalayan Watershed Development Project.
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Selling two environmental services: In-kind payments for bird habitat and watershed protection in Los Negros, Bolivia
Marketing several environmental services from a single area can help access diverse sources of funding and make conservation a more competitive land use. In Bolivia's Los Negros valley (Department of Santa Cruz), bordering the Ambor
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Watershed management approaches, policies, and operations: lessons for scaling up
This report begins with definitions of watersheds and watershed management, a characterization of the problem of watershed degradation, and a short history of watershed management operations and policies. It discusses the findings on watershed management approaches and methodologies. It looks at findings on institutions for watershed management and reviews the economics of watershed management.
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Decentralized payments for environmental services: The cases of Pimampiro and PROFAFOR in Ecuador
Few payment for environmental services (PES) schemes in developing countries operate outside of the central state's umbrella, and are at the same time old enough to allow for a meaningful evaluation. Ecuador has two such decentralised, consolidated experiences: the five-year old Pimampiro municipal watershed-protection scheme and the twelve-year old PROFAFOR carbon-sequestration programme.
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Taking stock: A comparative analysis of payments for environmental services programs in developed and developing countries
Payments for environmental services (PES) are an innovative approach to conservation that has been applied increasingly often in both developed and developing countries. To date, however, few efforts have
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Paying for the hydrological services of Mexico's forests: Analysis, negotiations and results
Mexico faces both high deforestation and severe water scarcity. The Payment for Hydrological Environmental Services (PSAH) Program was designed to complement other policy responses to the crisis at the interface of these problems. Through the PSAH, the Mexican federal government pays participating forest owners for the benefits of watershed protection and aquifer recharge in areas where commercial forestry is not currently competitive. Funding comes from fees charged to water users, from which nearly US$18
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Mainstreaming gender, engendering development: Reflections on a case study
Mainstreaming gender and engendering development has now become a part of feminist and development discourse. This paper is a case study of the mv Foundation, which has implemented its programme of "Empowering Women through Collective Action' in the Ranga Reddy district of Andhra Pradesh.
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Sustaining benefits from small reservoirs: World Bank terms watershed management critical
Watershed management is critical to sustain the benefits from the development of small water storages or small dams in Barani Areas, said Asian Development Bank's experts. In a project review report on "Watershed Management Constraints in Barani Areas", Sedimentation Surveys of sample dams in the Pothowar region reveal that loss in water storage capacity can be as high as 4.2 percent per year, which could lead to full siltation of the dam's dead storage after 24 years.