This book aims to expand the approach to environmental service payments. The book discusses two central ideas: (1) environmental services can be linked to agricultural production systems and management practices to combat poverty, and (2) poverty eradication should precede the provision of environmental services. Neither of these ideas is necessarily new. The connection between environmental services and agricultural production systems is evident in payment programs for agro-environmental services in most major economies. Meanwhile, poverty eradication policies and the fight against poverty...