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… upstream landholders dedicate their land to intensive agricultural or cattle-ranching activities, or when forest owners convert their forest land to agricultural land. In these cases, down- stream water … this may be too costly, time-consuming or not feasible in practice. A contract therefore may not need to be legally …

… and tools that relate development to conservation, agricultural and industrial production, and the increasing … storage capacity (m3/m2) • Pollutant concentrations • Agricultural water use (m3/ha) • Fish stock (kg/m3) • Amounts … HIGHER THAN THE MINIMUM PAYMENT ACCEPTED BY SELLERS.” In practice, when developing payment schemes for watershed …

… and synergies?” 11 � Chomitz, K. 2007. At Loggerheads? Agricultural Expansion, Poverty Reduction, and Environment in … strive for a better joint management of conservation and agricultural production in support of rural livelihoods. � … governments. Incentive-based conservation tools In practice, the ‘ecosystem services’ concept is most easily …