Cooperative institutions for increasing rural livelihood under CDM forestation on marginal croplands (original) (raw)

Abstract

Establishing tree plantations on degraded croplands contributes to climate change mitigation, irrigation water use efficiency, land rehabilitation, and increases rural welfare as has been illustrated for the irrigated arid regions in Central Asia such as Uzbekistan. It has been recurrently postulated that cooperation between farmers under the Clean Development Mechanism with the aim of sharing benefits and costs may incentive afforestation on marginal lands and lead to the sustainable development. These hypotheses guided the assessment in the irrigated drylands in the downstream of the Aral Sea Basin in Uzbekistan. We developed the model with three scenarios assuming in all an annual decrease of irrigation water availability: 1) business-as-usual (BAU), where the current land use practices are followed; 2) Afforestation, where farmers can individually decide to plant trees on their own marginal croplands; and 3) CDM-farm forestry cooperative (CDMC), where farmers jointly decide the ...

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