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Forests newsletter
June 2014
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In this issue we talk about REDD+: the next steps, the risks and benefits, and what people want from it.
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On a cold day in Warsaw last year, governments from around the world reached an agreement with far reaching implications for the world's forests, especially those in the tropics and subtropics. After several years of negotiations they agreed a framework — called REDD+ — to compensate developing nations for avoiding deforestation. So what's next?
Nepal has begun to assess the potential harm and benefits of the compensation scheme for protecting forests.
Focus groups, choice experiments and votes in villages reveal big difference in how communities wish to be rewarded for avoiding deforestation.
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Strength within forest and farm producer groups is critical for attempts to negotiate secure tenure, gain market access and provide services to their members. Part of that strength comes from tactical know-how that can come from exchange visits between such producer groups. The Forest Farm Facility has been investing in such exchange visits, both with an internal exchange from different states within Myanmar and with an upcoming exchange between Myanmar forest and farm producer groups and more established groups and federations in Nepal.
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In a finite biosphere there is a limit to what a growing human population can do and still survive. Locally controlled forest enterprises have a substantial contribution to make if supported to produce food, fuel and fibre products in ways that improve local livelihoods and resilience in the face of increasing environmental and economic shocks.
In this issue of Gatekeeper read how the Mpingo Conservation and Development Initiative (MCDI) in southeastern Tanzania successfully involved communities in participatory forest management, Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC) certification and REDD+.
This briefing discusses how REDD+ has much potential but is not without risk, and although some risks can be addressed by technical means, many require the influence and engagement of higher levels of corporate governance within effective institutions.
This backgrounder gives an overview of IIED's work on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation - encompassing governance, economics and south-south collaboration.
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Women's Environment & Development Organization
The Women’s Environment & Development Organization (WEDO) helps to promote and protect human rights, gender equality and the integrity of the environment. IIED and WEDO have been discussing collaboration on the topic of gender and REDD+ . Both took part in a recent Learning Exchange about REDD+ and gender, organised by IUCN with USAID and partners, including WEDO. A key aim of this meeting was to target national and international processes to ensure that equity and gender issues are adequately integrated in the priorities, actions and budget. The meeting also resulted in an agreement to create a community of practice and a knowledge management platform, to enable ongoing sharing of information and influencing processes, policy and practice.
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