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Opportunities for economic incentives to promote sustainable land and water management in the sloping lands of South and Southeast Asia. Chu Thai Hoanh, BMZ project. 20 March 2014, Vientianei. BMZ project objective.
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Opportunities for economic incentives to promote sustainable land and water management in the sloping lands of South and Southeast Asia Chu Thai Hoanh, BMZ project 20 March 2014, Vientianei
BMZ project objective To generate viable institutional and economic benefit sharing mechanisms that promote equitable incentive systems for sustainable upland watershed management in current and planned large dams
Partners • International Water Management Institute (IWMI) • University of Hohenheim, Germany • Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), France • Challenge Program for Water & Food (CPWF), CGIAR • Vietnamese Academy for Agricultural Science (VAAS) and collaborators • National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI), Lao PDR and collaborators • Chiang Mai University, Thailand and collaborators • Mekong Institute of Cambodia and collaborators
Activities 1. Intelligence compilation 2. Economic quantification 3. Institutional assessment and strategy 4. Outreach, implementation and capacity building
Outputs • Understanding environmental impacts of land and water management practices and costs and benefits of soil and water conservation practices • Economic and institutional options for feasible benefit sharing mechanisms, including PES in Laos and Vietnam, and complementary in Nepal, Cambodia and Thailand • Promoting benefit sharing amongst upland farming communities, dam operators, governments and donors