Incentives are effective but insufficient to halt smallholder deforestation in the Colombian Amazon
Hugo Charoud, Esteve Corbera, Lina Moros, Sébastien Costedoat, Santiago Izquierdo-Tort · 2026
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Hugo Charoud and four colleagues evaluate two programs that paid Colombian farmers to keep Amazon forest standing, in PLOS ONE in 2026. One was a government scheme offering cash across a wide area of Guaviare; the other, a four year charity project, worked closely with frontier farms on sustainable land use. Together the two covered different ground, and the authors measured how much deforestation each actually prevented.
Combined, the programs spared roughly fourteen hundred hectares of forest, a real but modest dent in regional clearing. The government scheme guarded larger, less threatened patches, while the charity targeted smaller farms at the sharp edge of clearing and added technical help such as tree dotted pasture systems. The authors argue the designs complement each other, yet payments alone cannot stop clearing without stronger measures behind them.
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| CREATOR | Hugo Charoud, Esteve Corbera, Lina Moros, Sébastien Costedoat, Santiago Izquierdo-Tort |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 66763 |
| LICENSE | CC_BY |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS |