Linking Forest Tenure Reform, Environmental Compliance, and Incentives: Lessons from REDD+ Initiatives in the Brazilian Amazon

Duchelle, A.E.; Cromberg, Marina; Gebara, Maria Fernanda; Guerra, Raissa; Melo, Tadeu; Larson, Anne M.; Cronkleton, P.; Börner, Jan; Sills, Erin O.; Wunder, Sven; Bauch, Simone; May, Peter H.; Selaya, Galia; Sunderlin, W.D.

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.01.014

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“…While such an approach may not further complicate existing land and forest tenure, and promising policy initiatives such as the Legal Land (Terra Legal) initiative in the Brazilian Amazon that have sought to address past failures of land tenure reforms by establishing a link to social and environmental compliance [81], it is unlikely to deliver an easy and short-term solution to the problem of insecure individual and community property rights in most countries. As such, the technical and political challenges that land tenure clarification has faced over the past decades will still need to be addressed in the context of carbon rights.…”

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Taking Stock of Carbon Rights in REDD+ Candidate Countries: Concept Meets Reality

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Ravikumar

Gebara

et al. 2015

Forests

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Abstract:In the discourses on who should benefit from national REDD+ implementation, rights-based approaches are prominent across various countries. Options on how to create viable property rights arrangements are currently being debated by scholars, policy makers and practitioners alike. Many REDD+ advocates argue that assigning carbon rights represents a solution to insecure individual and community property rights. But carbon rights, i.e., the OPEN ACCESSForests 2015, 6 1032 bundle of legal rights to carbon sequestered in biomass, present their own set of theoretical and practical challenges. We assess the status and approaches chosen in emerging carbon-rights legislations in five REDD+ countries based on a literature review and country expert knowledge: Peru, Brazil, Cameroon, Vietnam and Indonesia. We find that most countries assessed have not yet made final decisions as to the type of benefit sharing mechanisms they intend to implement and that there is a lack of clarity about who owns rights to carbon as a property and who is entitled to receive benefits. However, there is a trend of linking carbon rights to land rights. As such, the technical and also political challenges that land tenure clarification has faced over the past decades will still need to be addressed in the context of carbon rights.

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Taking Stock of Carbon Rights in REDD+ Candidate Countries: Concept Meets Reality

Loft

Ravikumar

Gebara

et al. 2015

Forests

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“…Do incentives matter? The existing literature on incentives for REDD+ for the most part lack relevance for PMRV because they consider landholders and forest users rather than potential MRV informants [57][58][59][60]. Willingness to engage with REDD+ does not necessarily imply that people have suitability, time, skills and motivation to be involved in monitoring and reporting.…”

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Motivation matters: Lessons for REDD+ participatory measurement, reporting and verification from three decades of child health participatory monitoring in Indonesia

Ekowati¹,

Hofstee²

2016

Motivation Matters: Lessons for REDD+ Participatory Measurement, Reporting and Verification From Three Decades of Child Health

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Participatory Measurement, Reporting and Verification (PMRV), in the context of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation with its co-benefits (REDD+) requires sustained monitoring and reporting by community members. This requirement appears challenging and has yet to be achieved. Other successful, long established, community self-monitoring and reporting systems may provide valuable lessons. The Indonesian integrated village healthcare program (Posyandu) was initiated in the 1980s and still provides effective and successful participatory measurement and reporting of child health status across the diverse, and often remote, communities of Indonesia. Posyandu activities focus on the growth and development of children under the age of five by recording their height and weight and reporting these monthly to the Ministry of Health. Here we focus on the local Posyandu personnel (kaders) and their motivations and incentives for contributing. While Posyandu and REDD+ measurement and reporting activities differ, there are sufficient commonalities to draw useful lessons. We find that the Posyandu kaders are motivated by their interests in health care, by their belief that it benefits the community, and by encouragement by local leaders. Recognition from the community, status within the system, training opportunities, competition among communities, and small payments provide incentives to sustain participation. We examine these lessons in the context of REDD+.

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“…GCS research has examined in depth the difficulties our sample of proponents have faced in clarifying tenure and making it more secure in preparation for the implementation of REDD+ Duchelle et al 2013;Larson et al 2013;Resosudarmo et al 2013;.…”

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“…• Direct linkage of forest tenure reform with targeted environmental outcomes as has been attempted in Brazil through the Terra Legal program and accompanying Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) (see Duchelle et al 2013). …”

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The challenge of establishing REDD+ on the ground: Insights from 23 subnational initiatives in six countries

Sunderlin¹,

Ekaputri²,

Sills³

et al. 2014

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Linking Forest Tenure Reform, Environmental Compliance, and Incentives: Lessons from REDD+ Initiatives in the Brazilian Amazon

Cited by 143 publications

References 24 publications

Taking Stock of Carbon Rights in REDD+ Candidate Countries: Concept Meets Reality

Taking Stock of Carbon Rights in REDD+ Candidate Countries: Concept Meets Reality

Motivation matters: Lessons for REDD+ participatory measurement, reporting and verification from three decades of child health participatory monitoring in Indonesia

The challenge of establishing REDD+ on the ground: Insights from 23 subnational initiatives in six countries

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