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 …

We provide a synthesis of recent scholarship on social safeguards and co-benefits in
REDD+ with a focus on debates on: first, tenure security, and second, effective participation …

Small and medium forest enterprises (SMFEs) are small firms in develo** countries aimed
at generating income from a diverse set of forest-related activities. They result in multiple …

While mainstream academic literature over the past ten years has tended to identify
commercial and industrialized agriculture as the primary driver of deforestation, national …

Shifting cultivation is one of the oldest forms of subsistence agriculture and is still practised
by millions of poor people in the tropics. Typically it involves clearing land (often forest) for …

Develo** and institutionalizing cross-sectoral approaches to sustainable land use
remains a crucial, yet politically contested, objective in global sustainability governance …

Emergingresearch points to large greenhouse gas mitigation opportunities for activities that
are focused on the preservation and maintenance of ecosystems, also known as natural …

With communities in many parts of the world achieving stronger, legally recognized,
collective rights over their forests and other natural resources, important questions arise …

Although social forestry in Indonesia is envisioned as a policy for recognizing local practices
to forest management, research is still limited. This research describes conditions of social …

Highlights•Three novel trends in community forest management literature are
identified.•Studies examine REDD+ projects, superimposed on CFM institutions, and what …