Resources tagged "poverty reduction"
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Pro-poor benefit distribution in REDD+: Who gets what and why does it matter?Ensuring the poor or the most vulnerable sections of society benefit from REDD+ is key mainly to build both national and international legitimacy, and foster successful delivery of conservation and social objectives. This paper aims to look at some of the issues related to benefit distribution at village and household level.
Low-carbon Africa: leapfrogging to a green futureThis report demonstrates the considerable potential Africa has to achieve the win goals of tackling poverty and the threat of climate change by pursuing a low-carbon development pathway. The report argues that it is possible to lift Africa out of energy poverty without increasing Greenhouse Gases emissions. It gives examples of the potential for low-carbon energy in six sub-Saharan African co...
The Natural Fix?: The Role of Ecosystems in Climate MitigationThis Rapid Assessment Report describes the vital contributions which ecosystems can and must make to improve large cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases. It presents carbon capture and storage through a Green Economy lens, outlining the potential in terms of natural systems are being depleted at an alarming rate. This authoritative report underlines a far greater potential across a wider suit...
Fair and green? Social impacts of payments for environmental services in Costa RicaUnder the programme of payments for environmental services (PES) programme, economic recognition of forests moved from a ‘timber-only’ approach to a wider concept of ecosystem services that feeds directly into human and industrial functions of production or consumption. But who really benefits and loses from PES? A clearer understanding of distributional issues in PES-type projects is bec...
REDD: Benefits and Benefit DistributionProviding lessons from Paraguay, Nepal, Brazil and Bolivia, this IIED presentation lists the various benefits of community forestry and how the benefits are currently being distributed. It presents REDD as a pro-poor development initiative, citing the importance of income distribution for REDD projects to improve local livelihoods.
Sharing the wealth: Policy and legal frameworks to support equitable sharing of costs and benefits from community forestry This synthesis paper summarises the discussions at the Second Community Forestry Forum which was convened with the purpose of sharing experiences among peers on how to distribute the benefits and costs of community forestry more equitably. Policy makers from 14 countries in Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Nepal, Philip...
Capturing Opportunities and Processing to Benefit the Poor in Papua New GuineaThis paper compares the expected results of Papua New Guinea's Eco-Forestry Program with landowners' actual experiences, recognising a need for: evidence that Eco-Forestry is financially viable, an institutional framework within which Eco-Forestry can take place, and further capacity building to ensure that the benefits of Eco-Forestry reach the communities undertaking it.
Exploring the rationale for Benefit Sharing in Community Forestry: Experiences from Tanzania and Nepal. Towards a conceptual framework for equitable benefit-sharing in community forestryThis study argues that there is a considerable lack of clarity regarding the rationale for redistribution of forest management benefits at the community level: in Nepal benefits are redistributed with the aim of mobilising and accumulating natural and social capital to reduce relative poverty and social marginalisation. In Tanzania, however, the focus of benefit sharing is more directly on fo...
Small wood-based forestry entreprises in community forestry: contributing to poverty reduction in Nepal This study examines the role that Forest-Based Small Scale Entreprises (FBSSEs) have played in reducing poverty in Nepal, with particular reference to two entreprises: a furniture entreprise in Parbat and an Agricultural implements plant in Myagadi. In particular it looks at the quantity of production by these businesses, the number of people they employ and income they generate and the reaso...
Community forestry: supporting Bhutan's national and MDG goals while protecting forests When Community Forest (CF) was initially introduced in 1992, CF was seen as a potential threat to the conservation-oriented National Forest Policy. This skepticism still exists, but as evidence of the positive impacts of CF emerges, policy is changing to further support the CF program.This paper argues that if CF is fully developed in Bhutan, it will contribute significantly to achieving nati...