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Socio-economic Impact Analysis of USAID Agroforestry Development Projects in Leyte, Philippines

Investigators:

Evan Mercer, Southern Research Station
Hermie Francisco, University of the Philippines at Los Baños
Belita Vega, Visayas State College of Agriculture
Subhrendu Pattanayak, Duke University
Yuki Yoshida, Duke University

Description:

Conventional wisdom suggests that agroforestry projects can provide both ecological and economic benefits. Most agroforestry project evaluations, however, have failed to adequately assess the socio-economic impacts. This results from a number of factors including the lack of farm-level input and output data, standardized methods for basic tree and crop yield assessments, and guidelines for data collection and analysis. Given this background, this study developed and tested data collection and analysis methods for assessing the socio-economic impacts of agroforestry projects using USAID projects on the island of Leyte in the Philippines as a case study.

Problem Area(s): Tropical forestry, Market-level models
Status: Ongoing

Products:

Pattanayak, Subhrendu; Mercer, D. Evan. 1998. Valuing soil conservation benefits of agroforestry: contour hedgerows in the Eastern Visayas, Philippines. Agricultural Economics 18(1998): 31-46.

Pattanayak, Subhrendu. 1997. Pricing Ecological Services Provided by Protected Watersheds: Micro-econometric Applications in Agrarian Communities of Indonesia and the Philippines. PhD Dissertation. Duke University.

Pattanayak, Subhrendu; Mercer, D. Evan. 1996. Valuing soil conservation benefits of agroforestry practices. In: FPEI Work. Pap. 59. Research Triangle Park, NC: Southeastern center for Forest Economics Research; 21 p.

Yoshida, Yukiko. 1996. Ex-post economic evaluation of the USAID funded agroforestry projects in the Philippines. Durham, NC: Duke University. 60. M.S. thesis.

Mercer, Evan; Vega, Belita; Francisco, Hermie; Maille, Robin. 1995. Measuring the socioeconomic impacts of agroforestry projects in the Philippines. In: Rietveld, W.J. tech. coord. Agroforestry and sustainable ecosystems: symposium proceedings; 1994 August 7-10; Fort Collins, CO. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-GTR-261. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 26. Poster.

Mercer, D. Evan. 1993. A framework for analyzing the socioeconomic impacts of agroforestry projects. In: The Forestry Private Enterprises Initiative (FPEI) Working Papers. FPEI Working Paper No. 52. Research Triangle Park, NC: Southeastern Center for Forest Economics Research: 1-34.

Mercer, D. Evan. 1992. Executive summary. In: Sullivan, Gregory M.; Huke, Susan M.; Fox, Jefferson M. Financial and economic analyses of agroforestry systems; Proceedings of a workshop; 1991 July; Honolulu, HI. Paia, HI: Nitrogen Fixing Tree Assoc: xv-xix.

Mercer, D. Evan; Hyde, William F. 1992. The economics of agroforestry. In: Burch, William R., Jr.; Parker, J. Kathy, comps., eds. Social science applications in Asian agroforestry. New Delhi, India: Mohan Primlani, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd.: 111-143.

modified: 13-MAR-2000
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