Policies, players and issues across the region.

Access and benefits in payments for environmental services and implications for REDD+: Lessons from seven PES schemes

March, 2013. Sango Mahanty, Helen Suich, Luca Tacconi. Land Use Policy, Volume 31, Pages 38–47. DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.10.009

Conservation agreements as a strategy for long term stakeholder participation and assured biodiversity conservation, in north Western Ghats, India

April, 2012. Archana Godbole , Sameer Punde & Jayant Sarnaik. Applied Environmental Research Foundation(AERF), Pune, India. 8 pages

The Prospects for Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in Vietnam: A Look at three payment schemes

April, 2012. Phuc, X.T.; Dressler, W.H.; Mahanty, S.; Pham, T.T.; Zingerli, C. Human Ecology. Volume 40, Issue 2 , pp 237-249. DOI: 10.1007/s10745-012-9480-9

Lessons Learned for REDD+ from PES and Conservation Incentive Programs: Examples from Costa Rica, Mexico and Ecuador

March, 2012. FONAFIFO, CONAFOR and Ministry of Environment. 164 pages

Lessons for REDDplus: A comparative analysis of the German discourse on forest functions and the global ecosystem services debate

March, 2012. Till Pistorius, Harald Schaich, Georg Winkel, Tobias Plieninger, Claudia Bieling, Werner Konold, Karl-Reinhard Volz. Forest Policy and Economics. Volume 18 (Articles online in advance of print) Pages 4–12. Emerging Economic Mechanisms for Global Forest Governance

Forests: Gender and value chains

February, 2012. Shackleton, S.; Paumgarten, F.; Kassa, H.; Husselman, M.; Zida, M.; Purnomo, H.; Irawati, R.H.; Fauzan, A.U.; Melati. CIFOR infobrief No. 49. Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia. 6 pages

Benefit Sharing in Practice: Insights for REDD+ Initiatives

February, 2012. Chandrasekharan Behr, Diji, Eileen Mairena Cunningham, Mbeyale Gimbage, George Kajembe, Steve Nsita, Kenneth L. Rosenbaum. Washington, DC: Program on Forests (PROFOR). vii + 143 pages

Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Options for Sustainable Financing of Mahausakande: A Regenerating Rainforest in Sri Lanka

February, 2012. Ranasinghe, T., and Bambaradeniya, C.N.B. Mahausakande Tropical Rainforest Regeneration Initiative, Research Paper No.3, 28 pages

Stacking Ecosystem Services Payments: Risks and Solutions

February, 2012. David Cooley and Lydia Olander. ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REPORTER. Environmental Law Institute, Washington, DC. 16 pages