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Thematic Session: Behavioural and Policy Insights for Conservation Effectiveness (Streaming) Location: B134 Session Chair: Ganga Shreedhar, London School of Economics and Political Science | |
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Evaluating long-run impacts of a voluntary REDD+ project: Evidence from Sierra Leone 1: Wageningen University and Research; 2: Wageningen University and Research; 3: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; 4: Wageningen University and Research We evaluate the decade-long impacts of a large voluntary REDD+ programme in Sierra Leone—the Gola Rainforest National Park project—on deforestation and socio-economic outcomes. The intervention targets forest-edge communities and promotes “conservation via diversion”, raising returns to cocoa through extension, training, and marketing support rather than direct cash transfers. We integrate a non-separable agricultural household model (with imperfect labour and/or capital markets) with a preregistered difference-in-differences design using (i) high-resolution satellite deforestation data for 2001–2023 and (ii) four waves of household panel surveys (2010, 2014, 2019, 2024). Ten years after implementation, the programme slows deforestation by about 0.5 percentage points relative to a control annual deforestation rate near 3 percentage points. We find no statistically significant long-run effects on household well-being or conservation attitudes. Mechanism evidence indicates increased cocoa production and a reallocation of labour away from forest-dependent farming, consistent with labour-market tightening as the main pathway. Effects persist over time. | |