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Abstract
The role played by Payments for ecosystem services (PES) in promoting land use interventions is increasingly being recognized as an important instrument for changing land use management worldwide. Despite the increase, adoption of land use interventions promoted by PES and factors influencing it are not well understood. This study was carried out to assess the adoption of land use interventions promoted by PES scheme four years after its implementation in the Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania. The specific objectives of this study were to assess the adoption and factors that influenced it. The study employed questionnaire survey method to collect data from 219 households selected randomly. Focus group discussions and key informant interviews were also conducted to complement information obtained through questionnaire surveys. Descriptive and inferential statistical analyses were employed. Binary logistic regression was used to analyse quantitative data obtained, while content analysis was applied to qualitative data. Results revealed that during the project implementation, 40% of the households did not adopt any of the promoted interventions. Unexpectedly, four years after the project ended, every household sampled had adopted the interventions. Households headed by younger heads and those with land ownership, households which received PES incentives and lived for a long time in the same area and those with more labour force and access to extension services were found to have adopted more interventions (p ≤ 0.05). Thus, the study concludes that socioeconomic characteristics, agricultural extension services and incentives initially provided to farmers are key factors influencing the adoption of land use interventions. Therefore, it is recommended to the government that it should support farmers to get land tenure and to provide them with more incentives to improve their farms through adopting technologies.
Highlights
Ecosystems play an important role necessary for supporting living and non-living things in provision of different services such as food, water and climate regulation [1] [2]
The role played by Payments for ecosystem services (PES) in promoting land use interventions is increasingly being recognized as an important instrument for changing land use management worldwide
This study aimed at assessing the adoption of land use interventions promoted by PES initiatives in Uluguru Mountains in Tanzania
Summary
Ecosystems play an important role necessary for supporting living and non-living things in provision of different services such as food, water and climate regulation [1] [2]. Apart from different initiatives such as state control and participatory management taken by different countries to manage ecosystems for them to continue to provide Ecosystem Services (ES) sustainably, land degradation is vivid [3]. It is in this direction that led to the emergence of Participatory Management which had a varying degree of local community involvement. Payment for ecosystem services (PES) was developed as a strategy to enhance the sustainable ecosystem management in both developed and developing countries by providing incentives to the ecosystem producers rural farmers
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