Forestry Decentralization in the Context of Global Carbon Priorities: New Challenges for Subnational Governments

Amico, A. Libert; Larson, Anne M.

doi:10.3389/ffgc.2020.00015

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“…Local perceptions of social inequity might facilitate resistance to or a lack of participation in community forestry (Cronkleton et al 2012, Baynes et al 2015, Gross-Camp et al 2019, and evidence links the effectiveness of protected area management to whether local land users feel empowered to make decisions (Woodley et al 2012, Oldekop et al 2016. Furthermore, natural resource-based interventions are not implemented in an historical vacuum; rather, they are embedded within preexisting social norms and relations of power, which may disproportionately benefit certain groups at the expense of others (Colfer and Capistrano 2012, Nunan et al 2018, Libert-Amico and Larson 2020.…”

Section: Restoration Recap •mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Along with traditional authorities, other powerful actors, including international NGOs and states, make natural resource decisions which reflect unequal power relations (Colfer andCapistrano 2012, Libert-Amico andLarson 2020). These decisions might also contradict local perceptions of equity and traditional land and natural resource management practices (Martin et al 2014, Gross-Camp et al 2019).…”

Section: Restoring Communal Land With Fmnrmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Assessing Social Equity in Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) Interventions: Findings from Ghana

Kandel

Agaba

Alare³

et al. 2021

Ecological Rest.

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Achieving social equity in land and forest restoration is a key objective of major international frameworks and commitments, including the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Meeting this objective requires consideration of key governance questions such as who makes decisions about what is restored, where, and how? And how do factors specific to local contexts influence which decisions are made, and, in turn, the distribution of benefits? Despite the demonstrated importance of social equity on project outcomes in many natural resource-based fields, there have to date been no assessments of social equity of farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR), an approach used mainly for restoring degraded agricultural land. Drawing on findings from community-based fieldwork in 2019-2020 in northeastern Ghana, this paper aims to fill this void. We address the following question: How do historical, socio-ecological, and political processes condition prospects for social equity in FMNR interventions? Key findings were: 1) Preexisting hierarchies in authority, control, and access over land and trees shaped decision-making in project design and the potential distribution of benefits from FMNR 2) FMNR, when implemented on farmland, generally aligned with local agroecological practices; but, when implemented to restore communal lands, it created tensions with local perceptions of equity as well as traditional land and natural resource management practices, and 3) The FMNR project reflected the continuing salience of dominant political and environmental discourses, which carry implications for restoring landscapes with FMNR. To support practitioners, we provide several recommendations for strengthening social equity of FMNR project designs.

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Section: Restoration Recap •mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Restoring Communal Land With Fmnrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing Social Equity in Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) Interventions: Findings from Ghana

Kandel

Agaba

Alare³

et al. 2021

Ecological Rest.

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“…Indigenous communities' knowledge and use of forests, while “traditional,” is not static; it is shaped and reinforced over time through not only livelihood activities but also ancestral, and sacred forms of interaction with forested landscapes ( Berkes, 1999 ; Sunder, 2007 ). Policy-solutions therefore should build on the many decades of groundwork toward community-based management and governance of ecosystems ( Larson and Soto, 2008 ; Libert-Amico and Larson, 2020 ), relying on or strengthening the existing capacities of such institutions to shape the fair and sustainable use of forests.…”

Section: Principles For a Green Recoverymentioning

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Forest livelihoods and a “green recovery” from the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights and emerging research priorities from India

Dutta

Fischer

Saxena

et al. 2021

Forest Policy and Economics

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“…A variety of research have evaluated the REDD+ mechanism in Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula region at the national and subnational levels. However, the majority of evaluations have focused on how multi-level governance has functioned towards achieving REDD+ goals [18,20,43], reporting disjointed and limited subnational level jurisdiction which reduces the efficacy of REDD+ implementation in Mexico. Other research describes how well land use and cultural diversity, social equity, and pro-poor strategies are integrated into its initial actions and the implications on its success [19,44].…”

Section: Challenges To Redd+ Implementation and Evaluationmentioning

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Mixed Effectiveness of REDD+ Subnational Initiatives after 10 Years of Interventions on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Ellis

Sierra-Huelsz²,

Ceballos

et al. 2020

Forests

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Since 2010, the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) mechanism has been implemented in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, a biodiversity hotspot with persistent deforestation problems. We apply the before-after-control-intervention approach and quasi-experimental methods to evaluate the effectiveness of REDD+ interventions in reducing deforestation at municipal (meso) and community (micro) scales. Difference-in-differences regression and propensity score matching did not show an overall reduction in forest cover loss from REDD+ projects at both scales. However, Synthetic Control Method (SCM) analyses demonstrated mixed REDD+ effectiveness among intervened municipalities and communities. Funding agencies and number of REDD+ projects intervening in a municipality or community did not appear to affect REDD+ outcomes. However, cattle production and commercial agriculture land uses tended to impede REDD+ effectiveness. Cases of communities with important forestry enterprises exemplified reduced forest cover loss but not when cattle production was present. Communities and municipalities with negative REDD+ outcomes were notable along the southern region bordering Guatemala and Belize, a remote forest frontier fraught with illegal activities and socio-environmental conflicts. We hypothesize that strengthening community governance and organizational capacity results in REDD+ effectiveness. The observed successes and problems in intervened communities deserve closer examination for REDD+ future planning and development of strategies on the Yucatan Peninsula.

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Forestry Decentralization in the Context of Global Carbon Priorities: New Challenges for Subnational Governments

Cited by 12 publications

References 58 publications

Assessing Social Equity in Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) Interventions: Findings from Ghana

Assessing Social Equity in Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) Interventions: Findings from Ghana

Forest livelihoods and a “green recovery” from the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights and emerging research priorities from India

Mixed Effectiveness of REDD+ Subnational Initiatives after 10 Years of Interventions on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

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