Giving £2 a day to people in the Amazon helps protect rainforest, pilot project finds
- A pioneering project to provide Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon with an unconditional basic income has contributed to the protection of the rainforest, according to a study.
- The analysis from the University of Bath is expected to contribute to a growing debate about the role of direct payments to communities that maintain globally important ecosystems.
- A two-year pilot managed by the UK-based charity Cool Earth gave 211 people in three communities in Peru’s Asháninka region six cash transfers of 1,032 Peruvian soles each – roughly equivalent to £2 a day – to spend as they wished.
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- A pioneering project to provide Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon with an unconditional basic income has contributed to the protection of the rainforest, according to a study.
- The analysis from the University of Bath is expected to contribute to a growing debate about the role of direct payments to communities that maintain globally important ecosystems.
- A two-year pilot managed by the UK-based charity Cool Earth gave 211 people in three communities in Peru’s Asháninka region six cash transfers of 1,032 Peruvian soles each – roughly equivalent to £2 a day – to spend as they wished.
Sources: Guardian