Brief History
Build from two main lessons from previous works in 2005:
a)
b)
Recognition of tangible and intangible benefits by policy
makers is an important step in formulating land use
policy (WBI Program in Land Policy for Growth and
Poverty Reduction)
Efficient Management of natural capital requires more
effort to measure and value the natural capital
(Sustainable Crop/Pasture Land Project in Cameroon)
The main constraints
• Lack of essential data on both physical
quantities & attributes of natural capital and their
changes over time
• Absence of mechanism to coordinate
measurement and valuation processes of
natural capital
• Insufficient knowledge of the true cost of
natural capital degradation
Government Leadership Role
Creating a Leadership Policy Group (i.e. a
national task force) to establish a “Natural Capital
Clearinghouse information” which will:
a) Carry out baseline data on the state of the
country natural capital
b) Estimate its loss and monitor its degradation
over time
c) Account the goods and services provided by
natural capital
d) Design land-use policies to conserve and
restore natural capital
Contribution of the SNC Project
• Produce knowledge materials on how to
measure, value and monitor natural capital
goods and services
• Share information on best practices on
measurement and valuation processes of
natural capital
• Improve in-country skills on the use of
instruments and tools for measure and valuation
of natural capital