THE ECONOMICS OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION: A STUDY IN A COFFEE GROWING REGION OF INDIA / доклад на 25 конференции IAAE, Reshaping Agriculture’s Contribution to Society, International Convention Centre, Durban, South Africa, 16-23 August 2003
Опубликовано на портале: 30-11-2003
2003
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This paper analyses the economics of biodiversity conservation in the context of
a tropical forest ecosystem
in India, where coffee is the main competitor for land use. Using primary data covering
a cross-section of
coffee growers, the study notes that the opportunity costs of biodiversity
conservation in terms of coffee
benefits foregone are quite high. Even after including external costs due to wild
life damages and defensive
expenditure to protect against wild life, the NPVs and IRRs from coffee
for all land holding groups were
high. Even if the expected benefits were to decrease by 20% and costs rise by a
similar proportion, still the
IRRs from coffee were quite high (19.5 to 20.1 per cent). The study notes that the
external costs accounted
for between 7 to 15 per cent of the total discounted costs of coffee
cultivation, and smaller holdings
proportionately incurred higher external costs as compared to large holdings.
The study also notes high
transaction costs incurred by the growers to claim compensation for wild
life damages. Notwithstanding
these disincentives, the study notes that the local community were willing
to pay in terms of time for
participatory biodiversity conservation, and they preferred a decentralized
government institution for this
purpose.
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biodiversity conservation coffee benefit and cost contingent valuation external and transaction costs indian agriculture participatory conservation wild life damage
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