Despite this challenge to place all the funds destined to compensation, the land area compensated in most of the years since the programme’s inception in 2005 has been greater than the total area approved for land-use change. This can be attributed to the equivalence ratio greater than 1:1 used during the calculation of compensation fees, so for each hectare approved for change in use of land, resources to restore and reforest an average of three hectares are available through the fund (SEMARNAT, 2013a). However, further efforts are required to increase the allocation of available compensation funds in order to achieve the desired compensation levels that the programme was designed to reach.