Household participation in Payments for Ecosystem Services: A case study from Mozambique

Joao Daniel Mudaca, Toshiyuki Tsuchiya, Masaaki Yamada and Siaw Onwona-Agyeman

Forest Policy and Economics, 2015, vol. 55, issue C, 21-27

Abstract: The success of the PES programme in developing countries depends on the active participation and contribution of rural households. This paper investigates the factors influencing rural households' decision to participate in the PES programme in the N'hambita Community in Sofala Province, Mozambique, based on data collected through a survey of 115 households, using factor analysis and multiple regressions. Factor analysis has shown that the main factors influencing the household decision to participate in the programme are latent variables labelled as economic benefits, followed by social inclusion and forest conservation accounting, with 31%, 19% and 14% of the total variance respectively. Multinomial logistic regression demonstrates that the gender, marital status, household age, the educational level of the head, land area, distance from the project centre and source of income are important variables in explaining the level of participation of the three factors.

Keywords: Payments for Ecosystem Services; Factor analysis; Multinomial logistic regression; N'hambita community (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2015.03.002

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