{"id":2610,"date":"2020-02-03T20:25:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T01:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2024-04-26T09:55:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T13:55:21","slug":"evaluating-redd-at-subnational-level-amazon-fund-impacts-in-alta-floresta-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/2020\/02\/03\/evaluating-redd-at-subnational-level-amazon-fund-impacts-in-alta-floresta-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluating REDD+ at Subnational Level: Amazon Fund impacts in Alta Floresta, Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"authors\">Juliano Correa, Elias Cisneros, Jan Borner, Alexander Pfaff, Marcelo Costa, Raoni Rajao<\/div>\n<div class=\"published\">Forest Policy and Economics 116:102178<\/div>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><a class=\"paper\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/04\/Correa-et-al.-2020-Amazon-Fund-Alta-Floresta-Forest-Policy-and-Economics.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/06\/pdf-icon-50x50-1.png\" alt=\"PDF link icon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">The Amazon Fund is the world\u2019s largest program to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+), funded with over US $1b donated by Norway and Germany between 2008 and 2017 to reward Brazil for prior deforestation reductions. Olhos D\u2019\u00c1gua da Amaz\u00f4nia is cited as a leading project success \u2212 with over one thousand small-to-medium-sized crop and livestock producers in the municipality of Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso State receiving more from the Amazon Fund than all but two other municipalities. To secure property rights, aid environmental planning, and raise farmers\u2019 productivity and output diversity, the project helped farmers register in Brazil\u2019s environmental cadaster and receive property certificates. Furthermore, Olhos D\u2019\u00c1gua supported milk and honey production and paid farmers to conserve riverine forest sites. We estimate causal effects of Olhos D\u2019\u00c1gua, versus a counterfactual estimate of what would have happened without the project, using a synthetic-control method. We build from the pool of blacklisted municipalities weighted averages (synthetic controls) that best match pre-treatment outcomes for Alta Floresta. Project effects are estimated as post-treatment differences between Alta Floresta and the synthetic controls. We find that the project increased new CAR registrations, and INCRA certifications, and may have moderately increased honey and milk production. Alta Floresta\u2019s annual forest losses remained historically low but we find no clear causal effect of the project on deforestation rates. Our results support that rigorous impact evaluation can motivate and guide project improvements.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juliano Correa, Elias Cisneros, Jan Borner, Alexander Pfaff, Marcelo Costa, Raoni Rajao Forest Policy and Economics 116:102178 The Amazon Fund is the world\u2019s largest program to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+), funded with over US $1b donated by Norway and Germany between 2008 and 2017 to reward Brazil for prior deforestation reductions. Olhos D\u2019\u00c1gua da Amaz\u00f4nia is cited as a leading project success \u2212 with over one thousand small-to-medium-sized crop and livestock producers in the municipality of Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso State receiving more from the Amazon Fund than all but two other municipalities. To secure property rights, aid environmental planning, and raise farmers\u2019 productivity and output diversity, the project helped farmers register in Brazil\u2019s environmental cadaster and receive property certificates. Furthermore, Olhos D\u2019\u00c1gua supported milk and honey production and paid farmers to conserve riverine forest sites. We estimate causal effects of Olhos D\u2019\u00c1gua, versus a counterfactual estimate of what would have happened without the project, using a synthetic-control method. We build from the pool of blacklisted municipalities weighted averages (synthetic controls) that best match pre-treatment outcomes for Alta Floresta. Project effects are estimated as post-treatment differences between Alta Floresta and the synthetic controls. We find that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/2020\/02\/03\/evaluating-redd-at-subnational-level-amazon-fund-impacts-in-alta-floresta-brazil\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evaluating REDD+ at Subnational Level: Amazon Fund impacts in Alta Floresta, Brazil<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,29,39,45],"tags":[54,78,79,133],"class_list":["post-2610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-23","category-brazil","category-land-use-climate-mitigation","category-secondary-data","tag-amazon-fund","tag-decentralization","tag-deforestation","tag-political-economy","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Evaluating REDD+ at Subnational Level: Amazon Fund impacts in Alta Floresta, Brazil - Alex Pfaff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/2020\/02\/03\/evaluating-redd-at-subnational-level-amazon-fund-impacts-in-alta-floresta-brazil\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Evaluating REDD+ at Subnational Level: Amazon Fund impacts in Alta Floresta, Brazil - Alex Pfaff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Juliano Correa, Elias Cisneros, Jan Borner, Alexander Pfaff, Marcelo Costa, Raoni Rajao Forest Policy and Economics 116:102178 The Amazon Fund is the world\u2019s largest program to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+), funded with over US $1b donated by Norway and Germany between 2008 and 2017 to reward Brazil for prior deforestation reductions. 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