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Egg-Timer: Biodiversity and Human Well-Being Location: D-107 Session Chair: Mikołaj Czajkowski, University of Warsaw | |
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Can poverty alleviation reduce biodiversity losses? Quasi-experimental evidence from rural Cambodia Monash University, Australia Wildlife hunting is a major driver of biodiversity losses, but its relationship with poverty alleviation remains poorly understood. Using nationally representative data (the 2019/20 Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey), this paper presents augmented inverse probability weighting (AIPW) estimates of the impact of benefiting from the Equity Card, the largest poverty-alleviation program in Cambodia, on wildlife hunting in rural areas within 20km of Protected Areas. We find that the Equity Card leads to a ~14% reduction in wildlife hunted (as measured by the monetary value of hunted wildlife), driven mostly by reductions in subsistence hunting (which drops by ~28%); results which are robust to the influence of unobserved confounders. Calculating the implicit monetary benefit obtained by a household through the Equity Card on average, we find that for each riel spent on poverty alleviation in rural regions near Conservation Areas the value of wildlife hunted for subsistence drops by ~0.42 riels, indicating the cost-effectiveness of such programs. We conclude that poverty policy can complement conservation policy and discuss further policy options. | |