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Agroforestry Price Supports as a Conservation Tool: Mexican Shade Coffee

Economic policies that boost profits from agroforesty, thereby creating financial incentives for land managers to favor these systems over less environmentally friendly land uses, could, in theory, have ancillary environmental benefits. This paper analyzes primary and secondary data to determine whether a voluntary price support program for Mexican coffee-mostly grown in shaded systems that supply important ecosystem services- has had such "win-win" benefits by stemming land-use change in the coffee sector.

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  • central america
  • rff usa

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  • EfD Discussion paper

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Beatriz Ávalos-Sartorio and Allen Blackman, 2008, "Agroforestry Price Supports as a Conservation Tool: Mexican Shade Coffee", EfD Discussion Paper 08-36, a joint publication of the Environment for Development Initiative and Resources for the Future (www.rff.org), Washington DC. December 2008.

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