The community faces a difficult struggle to maintain its way of life The Project, making claims based on questionable land titles, has already sold carbon credits, yet the only 'benefits' to the community have been dental kits and a visit to the dentist REDD Alert How REDD+ projects undermine peasant farming and real solutions
the introduction of REDD+, an international finance mechanism designed to incentivize the conservation and sustainable management of forest so as to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, might have implications for conflict over land and natural resources
REDD+ discourses as a tool to support divergent claims of land ownership Government and villagers, through overlapping and contradictory engagements, negotiate REDD+ initiatives with global environmental actors and private plantation companies The paper highlights the implications of these local realities for the successes of REDD+
About: REDD+ REDD+ stands for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and the + includes the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks It is an international effort led under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) The
The struggle over Asia s forests: an overview of forest conflict and potential implications for REDD+ 101 to end their conflict, a consensus to jointly find a solution to the issue, a new way of engagement in relation to resource management, or no agreement at all (Wall and Callister 1995)
Future scope of REDD+ Agriculture and sustainable land use policies Many countries struggle to use the given REDD+ funding: Ex Amazon Fund in Brazil, -Conservation -Forest and other
The reality of REDD+ in Peru: Between theory and practice peoples’ rights, then REDD+ strategies will not only fail to reduce emissions but will undermine these rights and lead to social conflict REDD+, as it is currently being proposed and developed in Peru, is a threat to indigenous peoples
10 A new land cover map for the Mekong: Southeast Asia´s largest transboundary river basin Patrick Leinenkugel, Natascha Oppelt & Claudia Kuenzer 15 State Building and Nation Building in Dili, Timor Leste Alix Valenti 20 Conservation, REDD+ and the struggle for land in Jambi, Indonesia Jonas Hein & Heiko Faust
Table 1: REDD and/or private conservation projects in Jambi 13 Keywords: REDD, land tenure, forest governance, conservation, Indonesia political scales are involved in ongoing negotiation processes and struggle to maintain or gain
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(SIS REDD+), which are now operational in Jambi, and in East and West protection for indigenous communities Soeharto in 1998, prompted new political struggles between REDD+ in Indonesia must also deal with unclear land
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