National agroforestry program in Mexico faces trade-offs between reducing poverty, protecting biodiversity and targeting forest loss
Pablo Gonzalez-Moctezuma,
Jeanine M Rhemtulla
Abstract:National reforestation initiatives with ambitious targets and multiple objectives are becoming the norm across the Global South. The extent to which these large-scale initiatives are actually achieving their multiple and potentially conflicting objectives, however, is largely unknown. Sembrando Vida, a national initiative in Mexico implemented in 2019, pays smallholder farmers to plant agroforests in order to reduce poverty and forest loss, and protect biodiversity. We assessed to what degree program recruitme… Show more
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