Barriers to PES programs in Indigenous communities: A lesson in land tenure insecurity from the Hopi Indian reservation

Johnson, Michael; Lien, Aaron M.; Sherman, Natalya Robbins; López‐Hoffman, Laura

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.05.009

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“…Additionally, given the substantial amount of funding expected for REDD+ and for carbon credits more generally, there have been concerns that lack of clear tenure would encourage a type of resource rush or "land grab" to make carbon deals and capture REDD+ funding, leading to dispossession of traditional and customary landholders. Limiting participation to those with formal land titles could also bake in historical inequalities and exclude IPLC (Broegaard et al, 2017;Chomba et al, 2016;Johnson et al, 2018;Samndong & Vatn, 2018).…”

Section: Tenure Interventions In the Context Of The Dedicated Grant M...mentioning

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Interaction of Conditional Incentives for Ecosystem Conservation with Tenure Security: Multiple Roles for Tenure Interventions

Monterroso

Sills

2022

Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Development

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This chapter examines the role of tenure in conditional incentives for ecosystem conservation, often known as PES or payment for ecosystem services. PES systems that mimic market exchange require that resource tenure be clear and uncontested. In practice, there are different levels of conditionality in PES and different types of tenure challenges. REDD+, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, was initially conceived as a PES system embedded in a global exchange of carbon credits, thus requiring secure forest tenure. We examine one global initiative to achieve that, the Dedicated Grant Mechanism for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. Cases in Peru and Indonesia illustrate how tenure interventions can both enable implementation of conditional incentives and become part of those incentives.

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Section: Tenure Interventions In the Context Of The Dedicated Grant M...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Interaction of Conditional Incentives for Ecosystem Conservation with Tenure Security: Multiple Roles for Tenure Interventions

Monterroso

Sills

2022

Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Development

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“…For example, in 1887 Native American farmers in the United States lost a significant amount of land when the Dawes Act regulated and subdivided tribal landholdings, giving many parcels to White settlers and leaving Native Americans with smaller communal holdings [44]. Today some federally funded conservation incentive programs for agriculturalists in the United States exclude Native Americans from qualifying because of these communal land tenure arrangements [45]. For Black farmers, discriminatory loan servicing and loan denial has led to foreclosure and the loss of their farms [46].…”

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Taking Stock of Social Sustainability and the U.S. Beef Industry

2021

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This paper presents the results of a study of social sustainability in the U.S. beef industry with a focus on the pre-harvest, cattle ranching portion of the industry. Using an integrative literature review and interviews with fifteen thought leaders in the field, we synthesize key indicators of social sustainability and provide a framework to be used in analyzing social sustainability in the pre-harvest beef industry. We identify six themes that are critical to social sustainability: human health; learning/adaptation; community relations; equity and inclusion; land ownership, tenure, and succession; and industry structure. However, our results also indicate that social sustainability as a term is insufficient for representing the positive futures desired by ranchers and that quantifiable indicators and metrics are not able to capture some of the subjective qualities of social sustainability. There is a need for future research that builds on these ideas and explores alternative future scenarios for the U.S. beef industry by engaging more diverse perspectives.

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“…Some farmers use ecological practices that do not match up with the guidelines, which are designed with modern industrial farming in mind. For example, Hopi farmers have had difficulty in getting NRCS to qualify their traditional practices for EQIP funding, even though their farming practices have much higher conservation standards than the majority of what EQIP funds (Johnson et al ., 2018). All the while, EQIP disproportionately funds repairing the environmental consequences of larger-scale and industrialized farming, including huge concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs; John, 2017).…”

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Ecological costs of discrimination: racism, red cedar and resilience in farm bill conservation policy in Oklahoma

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Picciano²,

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Renew. Agric. Food Syst.

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This article makes the case that the legacy of institutional racism by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is connected to the encroachment of the invasive species Juniperus virginiana (eastern red cedar) on farming land. Red cedar's encroachment impacts Black farmers disproportionately in Oklahoma, even as it undermines broader USDA conservation goals and ability to adapt to climate change. As such, this case study illustrates the shortcomings of Farm Bill Conservation Title programs to address ecological issues across the landscape—shortcomings that hinder farmers' ability to carry out long-term adaptation and mitigate risks. Conversely, we show how the work of Oklahoma Black Historical Research Project, Inc. and the Rural Coalition has been vital allies in Black farmers inter-related struggles against racial injustice and red cedar. Thus, we argue community-based organizations have a pivotal, but under-supported, role to play in the shaping and application of farm bill programs and funds.

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Barriers to PES programs in Indigenous communities: A lesson in land tenure insecurity from the Hopi Indian reservation

Cited by 11 publications

References 50 publications

Interaction of Conditional Incentives for Ecosystem Conservation with Tenure Security: Multiple Roles for Tenure Interventions

Interaction of Conditional Incentives for Ecosystem Conservation with Tenure Security: Multiple Roles for Tenure Interventions

Taking Stock of Social Sustainability and the U.S. Beef Industry

Ecological costs of discrimination: racism, red cedar and resilience in farm bill conservation policy in Oklahoma

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