"Partnering for Impact: IFPRI-European Research Collaboration for Improved Food and Nutrition Security" presentation by Gunnar Köhlin, Director, Environment for Development, University of Gothenburg, on 25 November 2013 in Brussels, Belgium.

1. Land policies:
Actions to make up for lost times
Areas for partnering?
Gunnar Köhlin Director,
Environment for Development
University of Gothenburg
November 25, 2013
www.environmentfordevelopment.org

2. Representing a global network of
environmental economists - EfD
• www.environmentfordevelopment.org

3. www.efdinitiative.org
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4. Published by
Palgrave
Macmillan
August 2013
• PART I: Land
Redistribution Reforms
• PART II: Tenure Security
and Transfer Rights
Enhancing Reforms
• PART III: Forest Tenure
Reforms
• http://us.macmillan.com
/landtenurereforminasia
andafrica/SteinHolden
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5. WAVES: Wealth Accounting and the
Valuation of Ecosystem Services
• Pilot will implement natural capital accounting in
6-10 countries – 65 countries have signed up!
• Incorporate natural capital accounts in policy
analysis and development planning
• EfD will partner with Swedish EPA and WB to
develop methodology for valuation of certain
ecosystem services for inclusion in SNA.
• Reduced dam sedimentation might very well be
one of the first values to focus on. We need IFPRI
experience, incl SWAT calibration.

6. SFM and devolution
• Positive impacts on forest quality, but…
• Careful with equity/gender implications…
• Little attention given to silvicultural
management…
• PES not necessarily efficient for conservation
• Need for broad, long-term impact evaluation
of forest devolution reforms. See eg China!
• Focus area for EfD in China, ETI, TAN, KEN, CR

7. Conversion from forest to ag – yes
• But,
– Substantial investment in private plots in China
after Community Forest Tenure Reform.
– Even planting for fuelwood in Ethiopia!
=> Reduce deforestation and support SFM and
forest investments by reducing access to open
access forest!

8. Impact evaluation of SLM/SAT
• Kassie studies: One size doesn’t fit all!
Planning tools needed for implementation of
SLM interventions.
• Teklewold studies: important interactions
between technologies – look for optimal mix!
• Revive IFPRI/EfD collaboration in Ethiopia!

9. Importance of land policies on SLM
• Bezabih findings from Ethiopian certification
program:
• Certification has significant and positive impact on tenure
security and conflict resolution.
• Certification has significant and positive impact on land
related investment and productivity.
• Women enjoy slightly higher productivity benefits from
certification.
• Certification has positive impact on the use of both short
term and long term productivity-enhancing technologies.
• Certification has significant and positive impact on trust
and happiness.

10. Implications
• Direct and tangible local benefits should form basis of
decision making – profitability important to hh
investments, but pro-social behavior is too…
• Incentives Build SLM on solid ground – effective
governance – tenure security is key! Flexible/multiple
technologies.
• PES programs can enhance SLM/SFM – especially if they are
grounded on local buyers and sellers of ecosystem services
In practice PES is mostly gov’t approach to deal with
externalities! The gov’t has bigger toolbox…
• R&D will help increase intensification – lead to saving the
forests (but most important is land policy reform for
commons to increase opp cost – and this is lagging)