Deforestation and degradation are tied to a complex array of socioeconomic and political
factors. Many assume that among the most important of these are the particular bundles of …

The Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation program, or REDD+,
has been the international community's first real attempt to create a global forest governance …

Across the world,'green grabbing'–the appropriation of land and resources for environmental
ends–is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. The vigorous debate on …

Large-scale acquisitions of farmland in Africa, Latin America, Central Asia and Southeast
Asia have made headlines in a flurry of media reports across the world. Yet international …

As interest grows in the contribution of ecosystem services to poverty alleviation, we present
a new conceptual framework, synthesizing insights from existing frameworks in social …

The extent to which REDD+ initiatives should be a mechanism to address poverty and
provide other co-benefits apart from carbon storage, is hotly debated. Here, we examine the …

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 …

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) policies, projects,
and interventions are among the most prominent of recent attempts to mitigate climate …

Provides a pan-African synthesis of community-based natural resource management
(CBNRM), drawing on multiple authors and a wide range of documented experiences from …

Benefit-sharing mechanisms are a central design aspect of REDD+ because they help to
create the necessary incentives to reduce carbon emissions. However, if stakeholders do …