financing SFM
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Knowledge | Brazil: Scaling up Renewable Charcoal Production
04.24.13PROFOR and the BioCarbon Fund are co-financing a study designed to identify institutional and financial arrangements required to mainstream forest plantation business models and promote the potential development of CDM projects aimed at reducing GHG emissions in the forestry and iron supply chains in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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Field Notes | Think Globally, Act “Locally Controlled”
04.15.13Diji Chandrasekharan Behr, a Natural Resource Economist at PROFOR, was one of several panelists at a side event on Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry at UNFF 10 last week. In this blog, she asks why are we not seeing more investments in small and medium forest enterprises.
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News & Events | PROFOR in Istanbul at UNFF10
04.03.13The 10th session of the United Nations Forum on Forests gathered forest policy makers and experts in Istanbul. PROFOR staff spoke at a number of side events on landscape restoration, forest financing and investing in locally controlled forestry.
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Knowledge | South-South Learning: From Payments for Environmental Services to REDD+ in Latin America
03.13.13The 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.
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Knowledge | Certification as a Tool for Sustainable Forest Management and Good Governance - South East Asia
03.11.13This activity produced an assessment of law enforcement, certification and legality verification schemes in Southeast Asia that includes recommendations for public and private stakeholders, including local banks to prevent unsustainable and illegal forest management practices in the region.
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Knowledge | Facilitating Forest Sector Investment
02.26.13PROFOR is launching an initial feasibility study to determine whether a methodology to systematically assess administrative and regulatory requirements for investment in the forest sector makes sense.
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Knowledge | Community Forestry Enterprise Competitiveness and Access to Markets in Mexico
01.30.13This activity aimed to develop consensus, through a stakeholder-driven process, on a course of action required to position Mexico’s community forestry sector as a high-value provider to niche markets from sustainably managed community forests, delivering both income and biodiversity protection. It has produced a guide in Spanish and English to evaluating economic and financial returns in community forest projects, as well as extensive training material.
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News & Events | Charting New Waters: State of Watershed Payments 2012
01.24.13PROFOR co-hosted the launch of the State of Watershed Payments 2012 published by Forest trends/ Ecosystem Marketplace, a comprehensive inventory of initiatives around the world that are paying individuals and communities to revive or preserve water-friendly features of the landscape. Recording of the launch and presentations available online.
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Field Notes | Good Business: Making Private Investment Benefit Tropical Forests
01.15.13This collection of 23 articles focuses on the potential of private investment to work in the interest of tropical forests.
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News & Events | Published in January: ETFRN News 54 Focuses on Private Investment
01.15.13This collection of 23 articles focuses on the potential of private investment to work in the interest of tropical forests.
