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\parbox[b]{13.4cm}{\centering \large{\textbf{Tropentag, September 14-16, 2010, Zurich}}\\[1ex] \Large{``World Food System  ---\\A Contribution from Europe''\\[2ex]}}
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\Large{\textbf{Conservation Performance Payment Schemes: An Economic Incentive to Save the Declining State Forests in Developing Countries\footnote{\textbf{Contact Address:} Mercelyne Khalumba, University of Bonn, Centre for Development Research  (ZEF), Economic and Technical Change, Walter-Flex-St.3, 53113 ~Bonn, Germany, \mbox{e-mail}: \email{khalumbamercelyne@yahoo.com}}\\[0.8ex]}}
\normalsize{\textsc{Mercelyne Khalumba$^{1}$, Karin Holm-Mueller$^{2}$, Tobias Wünscher$^{1}$}}
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\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{1}$University of Bonn, Centre for Development Research  (ZEF), Economic and Technical Change, Germany}}}
\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{2}$University of Bonn, Institute of Food and Resource Economics, Germany}}}
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Little is known about conservation performance payment schemes in state forests in developing countries. Kakamega forest is a biodiversity"=rich remnant of tropical rain forest located in a densely populated area inhabited by poor farming communities that heavily utilise non"=timber forest products from Kakamega forest. To contribute to the efforts geared towards conservation of this unique ecosystem this study conducted an experiment in Kakamega forest with the emphasis of linking the forest adjacent community to the state forest.    Conservation performance payment auctions were held in two villages around Kakamega forest with the main aim of enrichment planting in the state forest using funds raised from payment of forest user rights by the community. The Dutch- descending simultaneous open auction was used to allocate planting sites to the households in the selected villages that boarder the forest. The lowest bidders were awarded the contract. Payment was divided into two parts (i)~Sixty percent down payment at the start of the contract (ii)~The remaining \mbox{40\,\%} was paid after a period of five months basing on the conservation score. The planted site was evaluated by the community and state agency based on the conservation score parameters. At the same time the state agency planted their sites using fixed rate payment. The results show that there was cost saving of \mbox{47\,\%} in the community planted site and high seedling survival rate of \mbox{87\,\%}. (Kibiri forest station)  and \mbox{68\,\%} (Kakamega forest station) for the two villages compared to fixed rate planted site with high costs and low seedling survival of \mbox{48\,\%} at Kibiri forest station and \mbox{58\,\%} Kakamega forest station by the state agency. Involvement of individual households in forest conservation on competitive bases could be a viable option to save the declining state of state forests in developing countries.







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\noindent \textbf{Keywords:} Cost"=saving and economic incentives, conservation performance payment
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