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Land tenure and REDD+: The good, the bad and the ugly
Anne M. Larson,Maria Brockhaus,William D. Sunderlin,Amy E. Duchelle,Andrea Babon,Therese Dokken,Thu Thuy Pham,I. A. P. Resosudarmo,Galia Selaya,A. Awono,Thu Ba Huynh +10 more
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In this paper, a global comparative study on REDD+, led by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFR), was conducted to investigate how tenure concerns are being addressed at both national and project level in emerging REDD+ programs.Abstract:
A number of international donors, national governments and project proponents have begun to lay the groundwork for REDD+, but tenure insecurity - including the potential risks of land grabbing by outsiders and loss of local user rights to forests and forest land - is one of the main reasons that many indigenous and other local peoples have publicly opposed it. Under what conditions is REDD+ a threat to local rights, and under what conditions does it present an opportunity? This article explores these issues based on available data from a global comparative study on REDD+, led by the Center for International Forestry Research, which is studying national policies and processes in 12 countries and 23 REDD+ projects in 6 countries. The article analyses how tenure concerns are being addressed at both national and project level in emerging REDD+ programs. The findings suggest that in most cases REDD+ has clearly provided some new opportunities for securing local tenure rights, but that piecemeal interventions by project proponents at the local level are insufficient in the absence of broader, national programs for land tenure reform. The potential for substantial changes in the status quo appear unlikely, though Brazil - the only one with such a national land tenure reform program - offers useful insights. Land tenure reform - the recognition of customary rights in particular - and a serious commitment to REDD+ both challenge the deep-rooted economic and political interests of ‘business as usual'.read more
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Two decades of forest-related legislation changes in European countries analysed from a property rights perspective
Liviu Nichiforel,Philippe Deuffic,Bo Jellesmark Thorsen,Gerhard Weiss,Teppo Hujala,Kevin Keary,Anna Lawrence,Mersudin Avdibegović,Zuzana Dobšinská,Diana Feliciano,Elena Górriz-Mifsud,Marjanke A. Hoogstra-Klein,Michal Hrib,Vilém Jarský,Krzysztof Jodłowski,Diana Lukmine,Špela Pezdevšek Malovrh,Jelena Nedeljkovic,Dragan Nonic,Silvija Krajter Ostoić,Klaus Pukall,Jacques Rondeux,Theano Samara,Zuzana Sarvašová,Ramona-Elena Scriban,Rita Šilingienė,Milan Sinko,Makedonka Stojanovska,Vladimir Stojanovski,Todor Stoyanov,Meelis Teder,Birger Vennesland,Erik Wilhelmsson,Jerylee Wilkes-Allemann,Jerylee Wilkes-Allemann,Ivana Živojinović,Laura Bouriaud +36 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the legal framework applicable in the mid-1990s with that applicable in 2015, using the Property Rights Index in Forestry (PRIF) to measure changes across time and space.
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Business as usual in Indonesia: governance factors effecting the acceleration of the deforestation rate after the introduction of REDD+
Ashley Enrici,Klaus Hubacek +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore some of the challenges of forest governance in Indonesia as identified by stakeholders of REDD+ and as described in the policy documents and other literature, and conclude that weak institutional capacity and corruption have resulted in a situation that might be described as essentially business as usual.
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Forest Policy, Institutions, and REDD+ in India, Tanzania, and Mexico
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate forest policies and institutions surrounding REDD+ in three heavily forested countries: India, Tanzania, and Mexico, and conclude that a credible commitment by government to share REDD benefits with forest-dependent people is contingent on the interests of key actors involved in the policy process.
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Benefit Sharing Among Local Resource Users: The Role of Property Rights
Nichole Torpey-Saboe,Krister Andersson,Esther Mwangi,Lauren Persha,Carl F. Salk,Carl F. Salk,Carl F. Salk,Glenn Wright +7 more
TL;DR: The authors analyzes how user-group property rights to harvest forest products affect the distribution of benefits from those products within user groups, and finds that groups with recognized harvesting rights share benefits more equally among group members than groups without such rights.
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Framing REDD+ at National Level: Actors and Discourse around Nepal’s Policy Debate
TL;DR: Examining the forest governance of Nepal in detail, this research examines how relationships between national and local forest actors have changed, and how REDD+ discourses have evolved among them at the interface between global interests in carbon commodification and local realities of community forestry.
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