The Context of REDD+ in Papua&amp;nbsp;New Guinea: Drivers, agents, and institutions

Babon, Andrea; Gowae, Gae Y.

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“…In PNG, government agencies and multilateral organizations have framed equitable benefit distribution as a critical factor for local acceptance and ongoing success of REDD+ projects (Government of Papua New Guinea 2017; Leggett & Lovell 2012). Babon and Gowae (2013) propose that if customary landowners do not perceive they are getting a 'fair' share of benefits, they are unlikely to participate in REDD+. However, what a 'fair' share means is contested in Suau, in regard to both the vision of equity promoted by conservation actors, as one in which benefits received should balance costs borne, and the understandings different people in Suau hold as to the potential for the project to change relationships in desirable or undesirable ways.…”

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Paying attention to pigs: negotiating equity and equality in global environmental governance in Suau, Papua New Guinea

Pascoe

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2023

Royal Anthropological Inst

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The idea of ‘equity’, largely grounded in Western legal tradition, has come to permeate evaluations of what is fair and just within environmental governance programmes. But what constitutes equity in climate change and conservation projects? And does everyone affected by such projects see equity as desirable? Local encounters with global environmental governance interventions in Suau, Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea, provide an entry point to explore these questions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with communities implicated in the Central Suau Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) Pilot Project and in Save the Forest conservation projects, we examine tensions around conceptions of equity and equality between project proponents and local communities, as well as between individuals within those communities. By paying attention to talk about pigs in Suau, and tracing the intersections between reciprocity and trade, we explore how people negotiate equity and equality. We emphasize that this negotiation is central to Suau ideas of fairness. While the REDD+ and Save the Forest projects work to ensure ‘equitable’ distribution of benefits among supposedly equivalent actors, we show how this may actually close down possibilities for negotiation of outcomes that local people consider fair.

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