Correction to: Top-down, Bottom-up and Sideways: the Multilayered Complexities of Multi-level Actors Shaping Forest Governance and REDD+ Arrangements in Madre de Dios, Peru

Rodriguez-Ward, Dawn; Larson, Anne M.; Ruesta, Harold Gordillo

doi:10.1007/s00267-018-1062-1

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“…Efforts to enhance tenure security for women and influence land-use practices in the HIA are lacking. Similar challenges have been observed in Peru, where REDD+ struggled to influence land use and landscape governance due to more lucrative economic alternatives like mining, mirroring risk in the HIA with illegal mining (Rodriguez-Ward et al 2018 ).…”

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confidence: 62%

“…Ghana launched the Ghana Cocoa REDD+ in 2019 to curb cocoa-induced deforestation and generate NCBs for the farmers involved. It created the Hotspot Intervention Area (HIA) governance framework, a community-based governance model and associated instruments aimed at avoiding governance paralysis, which has been observed to result from top-down approaches in some REDD+ initiatives (Gupta et al 2016 ; Makatta et al 2015 ; Nuesiri 2017 ; Rodriguez-Ward et al 2018 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Actor Perceptions of the Governance Framework and Non-Carbon Benefits from the Ghana Cocoa Forest REDD+ Program: An Extended Q-Study of the Juabuso-Bia Hotspot Intervention Area

Dugasseh,

Adams,

Zandersen

2024

Environmental Management

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The expansion of cocoa farms is a major driver of deforestation and emissions in Ghana’s high forest zone. The Ghana Cocoa Forest Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Program (REDD+) was launched as the world’s first commodity-based initiative to address emissions from deforestation caused by cocoa production and generate non-carbon benefits. Hotspot Intervention Areas were established to implement the Ghana Cocoa REDD+ program. This study combines Q-methodology with focus group discussions and interviews to assess stakeholder perceptions in the Juabuso-Bia cocoa landscape regarding the capacity of the Hotspot Intervention Area to facilitate the generation of governance and economic non-carbon benefits to sustain emission reductions. We found that introducing the Hotspot Intervention Area has re-centralized landscape governance, which, coupled with weak collaboration among stakeholders, has led to poor generation of non-carbon benefits. Furthermore, efforts to include women in the leadership structure of the Hotspot Intervention Area can be described as tokenism, and little has been done to improve land and tree tenure for vulnerable groups. This, combined with the low adoption of climate-smart cocoa practices, is likely to negatively affect the generation of economic non-carbon benefits. To overcome these challenges, we recommend reforming the Hotspot Intervention Area, bolstering community-level sensitization, improving access to decision-making spaces that will enhance the participation of women and minority groups in landscape governance, and improving farmers’ tenure security through a registration scheme for land and trees. These recommendations can ensure the efficient generation of non-carbon benefits, which are key to the success of REDD+.

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confidence: 62%

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confidence: 99%