Coffee agro - forests play an important role in decreasing flood landslides as they greatly reduce soil runoff and ... Ultimately , the large - scale adoption of these sustainable practices depends on the economic benefits that they ...

At the same time, the adoption of financial mechanisms to prevent deforestation and soil degradation through the selling of carbon credits, would introduce a very important new incentive for sustainable forest management in the region.

Today , the subject of payment for environmental services provided by diverse natural or intervened ecosystems is ... on the adoption of sustainable land use systems , using PES schemes based on adoption indices of practices selected ...

Forest management concessions are also being granted in pro- tected areas or on ... services provided by farmlands , some- thing that ignores their links with ecosystems , water resources , landscape and carbon sequestration .