Carbon forestry and agrarian change: access and land control in a Mexican rainforest

Osborne, Tracey

doi:10.1080/03066150.2011.611281

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“…Vol. 8 (44) Carbon forestry in the Lacandon Jungle enables ejidatarios to keep their land titles, but they lose access to resources useful for subsistence due to the diversion of land and labor from use value to commodity production, with very few financial gains obtained in return (Osborne, 2011). Similar processes have been identified in state-operated, clientelistic oil palm programs also conducted in Chiapas (Castellanos and Jansen, 2015).…”

Section: Revista Mexicana De Ciencias Forestalesmentioning

confidence: 70%

“…Land grabbing for flex crops has been documented in Brazil, Guatemala (Action Aid International, 2008) and Peru (Tejada and Rist, 2017). "Green grabbing" for the purpose of conservation, tourism and carbon sequestration has been identified in Guatemala, Colombia and Mexico (Osborne, 2011;Ojeda, 2012Ojeda, , 2013Rocheleau, 2015;Devine, 2016). It is usually portrayed as an environment and community-friendly alternative because it does not involve the whole alienation of land.…”

Section: Land Grabbing: Extension Scale Purpose and Noveltymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Land grabbing in Mexico: extent, scale, purpose and novelty

García¹

2017

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Abstract:The expression "land grabbing" has been used to describe large scale land transactions in developing nations; buyers or contractors usually are governments or companies of industrialized nations. This paper addresses the extension, scale, purpose and novelty of land grabbing, as well as two major debates around this issue: the contribution of land transactions (if any) to rural development; the role of rural actors in the process. The paper focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean, with particular emphasis on Mexico. Land grabbing in the region involves not only the production of "flex crops", but also "commodity grabs" and "green grabs".Mexico presents a very high concentration and foreignization of the agricultural chain value, which is expressed in various forms of contract agriculture. Current processes of land grabbing are different from others occurring in the past because they are a new way to respond to the multiple dimensions of the global crisis:financial, food, energy and climate. The paper concludes that more research is Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Forestales Vol. 8 (44) needed on the impacts of land grabbing on rural communities, particularly from a differentiated and comparative approach capable of highlighting regional, class, age, and gender disparities.

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Section: Revista Mexicana De Ciencias Forestalesmentioning

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Section: Land Grabbing: Extension Scale Purpose and Noveltymentioning

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Land grabbing in Mexico: extent, scale, purpose and novelty

García¹

2017

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“…Local users cannot afford to antagonize government agencies, which may explain why indigenous peasants in some places have opted to engage with REDD+ programs despite an awareness of the potential risks involved (Osborne 2011). Therefore, national and international forest rights movements must also be willing to engage with government agencies.…”

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Nested governance for effective REDD+: Institutional and political arguments

Kashwan

Holahan

2014

Int J Commons

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Abstract:Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and Forest Enhancement (REDD+) has become a central focus of global climate change mitigation efforts. Even though the international demand for forest-based carbon sequestration is the key driver of REDD+, forest protection strategies must be implemented on the ground. This cross-scale nature of REDD+ explains why scholars and policy makers increasingly favor nested governance arrangements over either fully centralized or fully decentralized REDD+ governance. The focus of the literature on nested REDD+ governance has mostly been on monitoring, reporting, and verification of carbon emission reductions across sub-national, national, and international levels. We build on Ostrom's principle of 'nested enterprises' to argue that REDD+ must be designed to systematically and formally link national policy reforms with the organization and execution of sub-national (regional and local) forest conservation efforts led by forest users. We also contribute new insights on the political dimensions of nestedness in REDD+, with important roles for intercommunity forestry associations and forest rights movements.

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“…Further, carbon forestry restricts land uses in areas zoned for carbon sequestration. Villager participation in carbon markets may work to constrain access to important benefits that landowners may have enjoyed up until now (Osborne 2011). However, REDDþ also creates space for civil society and community actors to advocate recognizing indigenous rights in areas mapped within the forestry estate.…”

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“…REDDþ frameworks are widely seen as favouring those with formalised property rights (Vatn and Angelsen 2009, 68). If implemented in ways that enable landowners to obtain formal property rights within the 'forest area', some argue that REDDþ may provide customary land owners with a means to maintain a foothold on their land vis-a`-vis other policies and developments that threaten to displace them (Osborne 2011). But there is a risk that 'the formalisation of property rights may exclude the rural poor not only from access to REDDþ resources, but also from land in general' (Vatn and Angelsen 2009, 68).…”

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Trajectories of land acquisition and enclosure: development schemes, virtual land grabs, and green acquisitions in Indonesia’s Outer Islands

McCarthy¹,

Vel²,

Afiff³

Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature

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While the size and speculative nature of land transactions in the wake of energy, food and climate crises have surprised observers, the reasons for partial implementation of many land developments remain largely unexamined. This contribution investigates trajectories of land acquisition and enclosure by analyzing four acquisition processes in Indonesia -those associated with rice, oil palm, Jatropha and carbon sequestration -considering their implications for comparative studies elsewhere. The paper finds that current patterns of land use change represent a continuation of ongoing land transformation processes. It describes the logic leading to partial realization of large-scale schemes. Highlighting the importance of interactions between formal and vernacular rural land development processes, the essay concludes that many large-scale schemes are better understood as virtual land acquisitions.

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Carbon forestry and agrarian change: access and land control in a Mexican rainforest

Cited by 101 publications

References 38 publications

Land grabbing in Mexico: extent, scale, purpose and novelty

Land grabbing in Mexico: extent, scale, purpose and novelty

Nested governance for effective REDD+: Institutional and political arguments

Trajectories of land acquisition and enclosure: development schemes, virtual land grabs, and green acquisitions in Indonesia’s Outer Islands

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