(PES) to economic development and poverty reduction is an issue of importance since they may represent a new source of … focus upon the equity implications of ES programs and how can they affect poverty alleviation. The final section addresses …

This paper examines the relationship between rurality and poverty, and the role the agricultural sector can play in … rural development, poverty reduction, and overall development. The historical views regarding the role of the primary sector …

equivalence scales are likely to produce significant changes in the analysis of poverty and its distribution across households and … assistance resources) it is important to refine our understanding of the extent to which poverty measures and the resulting …

Land use change is a key requirement for improving rural incomes and making a significant reduction in poverty levels … land use changes required for poverty alleviation coincide with that required for carbon sequestration, significant … is significant potential for sequestration payments to contribute to poverty alleviation, considerable effort will be …

We summarize existing theoretical claims linking poverty to rates of deforestation and then examine this linkage … controlling for this, impacts of poverty per se are confounded by richer areas being different from the areas inhabited by the …’ characteristics, we find that poorer areas are cleared more rapidly. This result suggests that poverty reduction aids forest …

taken to reduce their vulnerability to becoming food insecure in the future. Most of the research on poverty in Nepal during … the past decades has focused exclusively on determining the poverty line and calculating the proportion of people living … under this line, rather than unmasking the characteristics, particularly the locational aspects, of poverty other than the …