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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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Deconstructing the policyscape for reducing deforestation in the Eastern Amazon: Practical insights for a landscape approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the sustainable landscape pilot program in Sao Felix do Xingu, looking at how different policies interact and explain how proponents of this pilot programme seek to integrate them.
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Land tenure drives Brazil’s deforestation rates across socio-environmental contexts
Andrea Pacheco,Carsten Meyer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors analyzed how six land-tenure regimes (undesignated/untitled, private, strictly-protected and sustainable-use protected areas, indigenous, and quilombola lands) affect deforestation across 49 spatiotemporal scales.
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Rescaling conflictive access and property relations in the context of REDD+ in Jambi, Indonesia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the causes and the scalar dimension of conflictive and unequal access and property relations in the context of an emerging transnational framework for forest conservation to mitigate climate change (REDD+).
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What Is a "Community Perception" of REDD+? A Systematic Review of How Perceptions of REDD+ Have Been Elicited and Reported in the Literature.
S. Atmadja,Erin O. Sills +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that readers need to be cognizant of these issues and publication outlets should establish guidelines for better reporting, requiring information on the reference population, sampling methods, and methods used to aggregate individual responses into “community perceptions.”
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Chapter 1 - SDG 1: No Poverty - Impacts of Social Protection, Tenure Security and Building Resilience on Forests
Kathleen Lawlor,Erin O. Sills,S. Atmadja,Liwei Lin,Karnjana Songwathana,P. Katila,Carol J. Pierce Colfer,Wil de Jong,Glenn Galloway,Pablo Pacheco,Georg Winkel +10 more
TL;DR: The empirical literature shows that more secure property rights, especially for community land, and social protection in the form of cash transfers can support forest conservation, given the right context and conditionalities as mentioned in this paper.
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Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java
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Contested Frontiers in Amazonia
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Who owns the world's forests? Forest tenure and public forests in transition.
TL;DR: White et al. as mentioned in this paper presented an analysis of who owns and who should own the world's forests, highlighting trends in tenure and providing data for more informed decisions by policy makers, governments, companies, investors, local communities, research institutions and concerned NGOs.