Payment for Environmental Services: Brazil

This report was elaborated as part of the “Payment for Environmental Services in the Americas” Project
sponsored by the FORD Foundation and conducted by Fundación PRISMA.
This report presents the findings of the second stage of Compensation for Environmental Services Project (CES)1, carried out in Brazil from May to September of 2001. The principal objective of the project was to assess to what extent and under what conditions rural communities could benefit from environmental services provided by their territories.