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  • Page | Assessing Options for Benefit Sharing Tool

    04.23.12

  • Knowledge | South-South Learning: From Payments for Environmental Services to REDD+ in Latin America

    03.22.12

    The experience of payments for environmental services (PES) systems set up in Costa Rica, Mexico, and Ecuador in the last decade provides valuable insights for shaping REDD+ strategies in participating countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region. Between them, these programs are currently helping to conserve over 3 million hectares of forests. Their experience shows how to make PES work, but also -- problems to avoid.

  • Knowledge | Making Benefit Sharing Arrangements Work for Forest-Dependent Communities

    02.27.12

    The idea of paying tropical countries to reduce their emissions from deforestation and forest degradation to combat global climate change, known as REDD+, will only take off and maintain its momentum if forest-dependent communities subscribe to the initiative's motivation and objectives. This is where a well-designed benefit sharing mechanism will make a difference. A country's benefit sharing mechanism will determine who is involved in REDD+ and the ways in which benefits are shared. PROFOR's newly published four-part volume provides insights for REDD+ initiatives gathered from experts and nine benefit sharing case studies.

  • Knowledge | Social Impact Assessment of Forest Carbon Projects (toolkit)

    02.14.12

    Are land-based carbon projects good for local people, biodiversity, and ecosystem services? This PROFOR-supported activity produced a user-friendly Manual on how to conduct cost-effective and credible social and biodiversity impact assessments. Background case studies and toolkits are available on this page.

  • Knowledge | Community Forestry and REDD+

    03.08.11

    PROFOR is supporting a study that will contribute to the debate about the potential and constraints of community forestry approaches to strike a balance between forest management, livelihood enhancement and carbon sequestration in the context of emerging REDD+ architectures.

  • Field Notes | "A Search for Fair Returns"

    01.31.11

    Reuters' special report "In global land rush, a search for fair returns" (Jan 31, 2011) raises questions of governance, benefit-sharing, innovation and foreign investment that PROFOR has been asking as well in recent and ongoing studies.

  • Knowledge | Community Contracting for Forest Management

    02.03.10

    Benefit-sharing arrangements between local and outside partners have received greater prominence in recent years as more forest area is being designated for use by local communities and indigenous peoples, and activities such as REDD seek to increase forest carbon sequestration with the effective cooperation of forest-dependent people.
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