Agroforestry Price Supports as a Conservation Tool: Mexican Shade Coffee

Beatriz Avalos-Sartorio Sartorio and Allen Blackman

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Abstract: 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. We find that although the program attracted the types of growers associated with land-use change, it attracted only a relatively small number of them, did not target growing areas hardest hit by conversion to other land uses, and provided subsidies that were probably too small to affect land-use decisions. These results raise serious questions about the ability of an agroforestry price support program with a modest price floor to have a significant conservation impact

Keywords: agroforestry; shade-grown coffee; Mexico; price supports; land use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q23 Q56 Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-12-15
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