Land tenure and REDD+: The good, the bad and the ugly

Por qué la tenencia es clave para cumplir los objetivos climáticos y éticos de REDD+

“…The motivations of proponents for addressing tenure are instrumental (means to an end) in the sense that they can only fulfill their environmental objectives if they do so, and also ethical (an end in itself ). Nevertheless, our research has shown that proponents in many cases have not yet succeeded in establishing a secure tenure foundation for REDD+ (Larson et al 2012(Larson et al , 2013Sunderlin et al 2014a;Sills et al 2014). Among the major obstacles to progress are the persistent power of political and economic interests (both in the private sector and in government) that are tied to the conversion of forests and non-forest uses (Larson et al 2012).…”

REDD+ in West Africa: Politics of Design and Implementation in Ghana and Nigeria

“…Meanwhile, through the moratorium in the Cross River, REDD+ is reinforcing existing land and forest rights regimes that privilege state control [100,110,111]. Tenure complexities and lack of political will to implement significant tenure reforms has been one of the most widely reported challenge to REDD+ in Africa [86,[100][101][102] and elsewhere [88]. In the light of the political cost of tenure reform and the failure of REDD+ to incentivise real reform, there is a growing, if problematic, accommodation of intensified law enforcement, moratorium, and forest militarisation as "alternative policy options" for pursuing REDD+ [104].…”

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

“…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;.…”