Forest governance in the Amazon: Favoring the emergence of local management systems

Medina, Gabriel; Pokorny, Benno; Campbell, Bruce M.

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105696

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“…Collaborative arrangements with private businesses may become valuable, provided they are done under participatory and equitable terms (Futemma et al, 2020). Production systems where locals play a leading rolerather than being subjected to paternalistic terms by external actorshave been promising in the Amazon (da Silva Medina et al, 2022), and that is particularly critical in the case of herbal medicine to avoid biopiracy.…”

Section: Discussion: Herbal Medicine For a Restorative Bioeconomymentioning

confidence: 99%

Herbal Medicine Promotion for a Restorative Bioeconomy in Tropical Forests: A Reality Check on the Brazilian Amazon

Lindberg,

Martvall,

Bastos Lima

et al. 2023

Preprint

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Section: Discussion: Herbal Medicine For a Restorative Bioeconomymentioning

confidence: 99%

Herbal Medicine Promotion for a Restorative Bioeconomy in Tropical Forests: A Reality Check on the Brazilian Amazon

Lindberg,

Martvall,

Bastos Lima

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…At the same time, the list of identified seeds includes grassroots initiatives mainly focused on territorial protection. Other studies highlight that endogenous, locally developed farming and governance systems should also form the basis for sustainable development in the Amazon [10]. These findings highlight the importance of considering top-down vs. bottom-up management approaches and bringing scholarly and policy attention back to local populations and their resource-use systems.…”

Section: Implications For Practitioners and Policy Makersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some of the new initiatives we have described can be seen as seeds of change that provide some weak yet rea, signals for promising future scenarios that potentially change humanenvironment relationships [24]. The history of the Amazon is rich in place-based solutions such as extractive reserves [9,10] that were tried out in a specific region and under specific circumstances and then expanded. The diverse approaches create an 'ecosystem' of new initiatives, increasing the chances that one or more will mature into longer-lasting and far-reaching sustainable development initiatives.…”

Section: Weak But Real Signals For Promising Future Scenariosmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nonetheless, some of the potential strategies for ameliorating these threats are well-known. The Amazon has been a laboratory of development initiatives for over 50 years [7], and the many established approaches used to address long-standing social and environmental issues include the demarcation of indigenous territories and extractive reserves as a means of protecting forest communities and maintaining traditional, relatively sustainable uses of forest resources [8][9][10]; market-based initiatives such as the soy moratorium for preventing agribusiness-related deforestation [11][12][13]; sustainable development projects based on payments for environmental services (PES), community forestry, etc. [14][15][16]; and government-promoted environmental law-enforcement and development initiatives such as public procurements from family farmers [2].…”

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Searching for Novel Sustainability Initiatives in Amazonia

Medina

Pereira²,

Ferreira

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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Amazonia is facing growing environmental pressures and deep social injustices that prompt questions about how sustainable development may emerge. This study sought novel sustainability initiatives in the Brazilian Amazon based on interviews conducted with diverse practitioners in 2021 using a horizon-scanning approach and snowball sampling for selecting interviewees, who then described the initiative most familiar to them. The interviews resulted in 50 described initiatives and 101 similar initiatives that were listed but not described. The results reveal the emergence of a range of sustainability initiatives, which we classify into seven types of new seeds of change ranging from eco-business opportunities, territorial protection by grassroots movements, and novel coalitions promoting sustainability. However, most of these new seeds are still being established and have a limited or uncertain potential for replication, and most offer only incremental rather than transformative development. Therefore, although these initiatives provide weak yet real signals for alternative futures, they also suggest that much more needs to be done to support the needed transformation toward sustainable and equitable development.

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“…One such avenue is through a “bioeconomy,” in which natural resources are appropriated in such a way that maintains the integrity and autonomy of the resources, without following large-scale industrial systems in which the exploitation of natural resources is supported by the control of production (Abramovay et al, 2021; Costa et al, 2021). In this case, strategies that reduce poverty could even represent an effective method for reducing deforestation, combining forest conservation with social well-being (da Silva Medina et al, 2022; Miyamoto, 2020).…”

Section: Forest Loss Is Not Associated With Socioeconomic Indicatorsmentioning

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Cutting Down Trees Does not Build Prosperity: On the Continued Decoupling of Amazon Deforestation and Economic Development in 21st Century Brazil

Norris

Carvalho

Guerrero

et al. 2022

Tropical Conservation Science

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Background and Aims We present evidence examining spatial and temporal patterns in forest cover changes and economic indicators in Brazilian Amazonia. Specifically, we tested two predictions embedded in arguments used by influential interest groups: (i) indicators of economic progress should increase where there is less forest and (ii) areas with most recent deforestation should have increased economic indicators. Methods Complementary methods assessed annual variation in economic indicators across 794 administrative districts (municipalities) covering 4.9 Mkm2 of the Brazilian Amazon from 2002 to 2019. A representative subset of municipalities was used to compare economic and socioeconomic indicators across municipalities with contrasting forest cover. Results Contrasting results between the full and a representative subset of municipalities suggested that municipality-level economic indicators cannot be directly attributed to the loss of natural forests. There was no association between forest loss and economic (average salary) or socioeconomic indicators (existence of sanitation plans and internet connectivity). The economic indicators of municipalities with less than 40% forest cover in 1986 were no different to that of similar municipalities with more than 60% forest cover from 1986 to 2019. Conclusion The evidence contradicted both predictions tested. Reducing forest cover does not appear to directly promote socioeconomic progress. Any localized associations between forest cover and poverty most likely result from other more plausible alternatives including lack of opportunity and a widespread failure to effectively implement and enforce existing policies within the local socioeconomic context. Implications for Conservation Our findings support evidence from across the tropics that shows deforestation does not necessarily generate transformative and equitable food production systems or lead to poverty alleviation.

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Forest governance in the Amazon: Favoring the emergence of local management systems

Cited by 13 publications

References 44 publications

Herbal Medicine Promotion for a Restorative Bioeconomy in Tropical Forests: A Reality Check on the Brazilian Amazon

Herbal Medicine Promotion for a Restorative Bioeconomy in Tropical Forests: A Reality Check on the Brazilian Amazon

Searching for Novel Sustainability Initiatives in Amazonia

Cutting Down Trees Does not Build Prosperity: On the Continued Decoupling of Amazon Deforestation and Economic Development in 21st Century Brazil

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