Poetry as Window and Mirror

Klooster, Jacqueline

doi:10.1163/ej.9789004202290.i-282

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“…These programs helped train communities to improve sustainability and market access, among other things, 80 and the government paid for some community lands to receive FSC certification, which increased benefits to the community through the sale of certified timber. 81 As of October 2010, some 8.1 million hectares of Mexico's forests were under community forest management plans. 82 This practical management and livelihood support has helped ejidos and agrarian communities with common forest resources to minimize deforestation.…”

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Securing Rights, Combatting Climate Change: How strengthening community forest rights mitigates climate change

2014

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The international community agrees on the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. With 13 million hectares of forest cleared every year, such efforts are critical to curbing climate change before it reaches a dangerous tipping point. But we are missing a vital opportunity to combat climate change—strengthening the land and resource rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities whose well-being is tied to their forests. This publication analyzes the growing body of evidence linking community forest rights with healthier forests and lower carbon dioxide emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. It presents a compelling case for expanding and strengthening community forest rights based on evidence drawn from comparative studies, advanced quantitative research, case studies, and original deforestation and carbon analyses by the World Resources Institute. The findings center on examples from 14 forest-rich countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Together, these countries contain about 323 million hectares of government-recognized community forest —68 percent of the estimated total in all low- and middle-income countries—as well as large areas of community forests without legal or official recognition. Our analysis focuses on the links between legal community forest rights (or lack thereof), the extent of government protection of those rights, and forest outcomes.

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