Tunisia
A PES approach in the Barbara Watershed was incorporated in the conservation policy of the Tunisian government It promoted adoption of conservation measures such as building stone walls and planting acacia in gullies in watershed area. The Office for Sylvo- Pastoral Development of North Wet subsidized 80% of investments for the conservation measures. However as the compensation...
The ILEA paper compares the ecosystem services in the Gafsa oasis in Tunisia, provided by mono-cropping families with those of multi-cropping families. it contains an hypothesises about what impacts various PES mechanisms – direct payments and subsidies; ecolabels; and tax mechanisms and tradable permits - might have and draws lessons from that.
Lessons learnt are
Garret Hardin’s “tragedy of the commons” theory uses the example of rangelands to argue that when many people have access rights to the same resource, there is a potential for each individual to overuse and underinvest in the resource. This theory has prompted a debate over the effectiveness of common property resource management, especially for rangelands.
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The Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation (ISWC) project in Tunisia coordinated by a team from the Institut des Régions Arides (Arid Zones Institute), a research organisation, is working in central and southern Tunisia.
Here there are regional radio stations in the cities of Gafsa, Tataouine and Gabès. This area was of interest for the project, as two-thirds of the...
Integrating activities for conservation and development through people's participation and collaboration among different institutional and social actors is being increasingly recognized as the most promising approach to sustainable natural resource management. This document describes and discusses the experience in this area of the Inter-regional Project for Participatory Upland Conservation...
