The power of choice: How institutional selection influences restoration success in Africa

Walters, Gretchen; Baruah, Manali; Karambiri, Mawa; Adjei, Prince Osei‐Wusu; Samb, C.; Barrow, Edmund G. C.

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104090

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“…Current Biology 31, R1326-R1341, October 11, 2021 R1335 Review projects and planners have the power to influence social outcomes through their institutional choices during implementation, especially in deciding which institutions to partner with and who makes key restoration decisions. When projects partner with powerful institutions, such as big international NGOs, it can exacerbate power imbalances and shrink democratic space 121,122 . Despite such concerns, restoration in the Global South is defined and largely led by major international development and conservation organizations 122,123 .…”

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“…When projects partner with powerful institutions, such as big international NGOs, it can exacerbate power imbalances and shrink democratic space 121,122 . Despite such concerns, restoration in the Global South is defined and largely led by major international development and conservation organizations 122,123 . Although some have shifted narratives towards 'community-led approaches', many still engender minimal community leadership or representation of marginalised groups in funding, decision-making, and ownership 124 .…”

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Upscaling tropical restoration to deliver environmental benefits and socially equitable outcomes

Edwards

Cerullo

Chomba³

et al. 2021

Current Biology

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The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration offers immense potential to return hundreds of millions of hectares of degraded tropical landscapes to functioning ecosystems. Well-designed restoration can tackle multiple Sustainable Development Goals, driving synergistic benefits for biodiversity, ecosystem services, agricultural and timber production, and local livelihoods at large spatial scales. To deliver on this potential, restoration efforts must recognise and reduce trade-offs among objectives, and minimize competition with food production and conservation of native ecosystems. Restoration initiatives also need to confront core environmental challenges of climate change and inappropriate planting in savanna biomes, be robustly funded over the long term, and address issues of poor governance, inadequate land tenure, and sociocultural disparities in benefits and costs. Tackling these issues using the landscape approach is vital to realising the potential for restoration to break the cycle of land degradation and poverty, and deliver on its core environmental and social promises. ll

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Upscaling tropical restoration to deliver environmental benefits and socially equitable outcomes

Edwards

Cerullo

Chomba³

et al. 2021

Current Biology

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“…Dicho esto, con frecuencia es necesario centrarse en cómo funcionan los acuerdos de gobernanza en una jurisdicción o contexto dado antes de implementar las actividades de restauración (Le et al, 2014). Tales consideraciones a menudo se ignoran o se dejan de lado para favorecer una implementación rápida, si no apresurada (Walters et al, 2020).…”

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“…Sayer et al (2020) y van Oosten et al (2020) subrayan la urgencia de mejorar las capacidades humanas que permitan diseñar, implementar y monitorear los resultados de la RPF. Estos y otros autores también subrayan la necesidad de nuevos mecanismos que pueden servir como instituciones puente y facilitar la gestión integrada del paisaje (Buckingham et al, 2020;Chang y Andersson, 2020;McLain et al, 2020;Techel et al, 2020;Walters et al, 2020). Por ejemplo, en el norte de Tailandia, la falta de información sobre las condiciones del paisaje, de acceso a recursos financieros, y de instrumentos legales en apoyo a la RPF representan barreras para el desarrollo de capacidad local en la toma de decisiones y el manejo adaptativo (Sapkota et al, 2020).…”

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“…En este documento adoptamos una visión amplia que considera la gobernanza tanto como un proceso como un resultado (Mansourian, 2017). Los procesos y resultados particulares de la gobernanza pueden ya sea promover u obstaculizar el desarrollo y funcionamiento efectivo de instituciones, asociaciones público-privadas, participación y comportamiento de las partes interesadas, así como mercados y cadenas de suministro (Walters et al, 2020).…”

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Consideraciones sobre la gobernanza y la restauración del paisaje forestal: Retos y oportunidades para la presente década

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Wilson²,

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Mensajes principales • Las iniciativas de la restauración del paisaje forestal pueden verse obstaculizadas por falta de comunicación o tal vez por la superposición entre sectores, políticas no alineadas con un objetivo común y por desbalances de información y poder tanto al interior como entre diferentes niveles de gobierno. • Es necesario enfocarse en cómo funcionan los acuerdos de gobernanza en una jurisdicción o contexto dado antes de implementar las actividades de restauración. Tales consideraciones a menudo se ignoran o se dejan de lado para favorecer una implementación rápida, si no apresurada. • En la práctica, la implementación efectiva de la restauración del paisaje forestal requiere de una transformación significativa de formas arraigadas basadas en la "mentalidad del proyecto", con visión cortoplacista y gobernadas bajo "comando y control". • Lograr la multiplicidad de objetivos inherentes a la restauración del paisaje forestal requiere considerar con atención a la gobernanza tanto como un proceso, como un resultado.

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Outcomes of Forest Landscape Restoration Shaped by Endogenous or Exogenous Actors and Institutions? A Systematic Review on Sub-Saharan Africa

Owusu

Kimengsi

Gießen

2023

Environmental Management

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Although ambitious, forest landscape restoration (FLR) is still very high on global climate change mitigation and adaptation research and policy agendas. The scientific literature highlights the importance of institutions and actors’ collaboration for achieving the intended outcomes. Despite these diffuse indications, a comprehensive understanding of the role played by different types of actors and institutions in shaping FLR outcomes is missing. This hinders the definition of an actor-cum-institutions research agenda for FLR, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Yet, in this region, different actors with diverse interests shape FLR practices. Likewise, formal and informal institutions are known to collide frequently. Hence, this paper addresses the lacunae by systematically reviewing FLR actors’ interests and power manifestations and the typologies of institutions linked to FLR outcomes in SSA. The review further defines future research agendas on actors and institutions in SSA. The following lessons can be drawn from the review of 75 peer-reviewed journal articles: First, while exogenous actors are interested more in the ecological benefits of FLR, endogenous actors are interested in economic ones. Second, exogenous actors mostly use (dis-)incentives and coercion to shape the behavior of endogenous actors in FLR. Finally, while the exogenous formal institutional typology produces positive and negative ecological, economic, political, and sociocultural FLR outcomes, the endogenous formal and informal institutions produce only positive outcomes. Future studies should identify actors’ compliance levels of the exogenous and endogenous formal and informal typologies of institutions. Future studies should also analyze the effectiveness of FLR-linked institutions towards ensuring successful FLR.

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The power of choice: How institutional selection influences restoration success in Africa

Cited by 16 publications

References 66 publications

Upscaling tropical restoration to deliver environmental benefits and socially equitable outcomes

Upscaling tropical restoration to deliver environmental benefits and socially equitable outcomes

Consideraciones sobre la gobernanza y la restauración del paisaje forestal: Retos y oportunidades para la presente década

Outcomes of Forest Landscape Restoration Shaped by Endogenous or Exogenous Actors and Institutions? A Systematic Review on Sub-Saharan Africa

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