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WWF - New video supports dialogue with forest communities on ...
17 Apr 2013
REDD+ practitioners around the globe have a new tool to use to dialogue with forest communities on REDD+, with the launch today of the video Engaging forest ...wwf.panda.org/?208215/New-video-supports-dialogue...
5 Steps to Improve the World Bank’s Social and Environmental Safeguards
17 Apr 2013
The World Bank’s annual spring meetings take place this week in Washington, D.C….
Voice of America: Growing Pressure for Land Reform in Cameroon
16 Apr 2013
Originally seen on Voice of America
By Divine Ntaryike
April 16, 2013
DOUALA, CAMEROON — The village of Adjap is on the fringes of the tropical rainforests of Cameroon’s South Region. It is home to some 2,000 inhabitants who say they are living life on the edge.
Over the years, the government has constantly annexed their land, only to sell it to foreign agribusinesses and logging companies. Marcelling Biang, the local tribal chief, says their...
In Tanzania, Nature Provides Unseen Value for Farmers
16 Apr 2013
Food security initiatives in Africa often don't account for the value of ecosystems for agricultural productivity.
Preguntas y respuestas: La reforma de la tenencia forestal avanza, pero quedan preguntas pendientes
16 Apr 2013
Recolectores de castaña de Brasil en Puerto Maldonado, Perú. . CIFOR/Gabriela Ramírez Galindo
LIMA, Perú (15 de abril de 2013)_ En las últimas tres décadas, por lo menos 200 millones de hectáreas de bosques han sido transferidas legalmente a comunidades locales o pueblos indígenas. Como resultado de ello, las comunidades ahora son propietarias o gestionan alrededor de más del 11 por ciento de los bosques del mundo – y la cifra es 22 por ciento en países en desarrollo.
“Hay una mayor aceptación...
Escalating cost of forest conservation
16 Apr 2013
In the face of unprecedented deforestation and biodiversity loss, policy makers are increasingly using financial incentives to encourage conservation.
Ethiopia enlists help of forest communities to reverse deforestation
15 Apr 2013
Under the Redd scheme – proposed by Papua New Guinea and others in 2005 – developing countries are paid for protecting their forests.The Guardian
$29 billion needed by 2020 to save world’s rainforests
15 Apr 2013
Global deforestation rates are likely to accelerate in the coming decade, threatening efforts to control climate change and land degradation, Guyana’s former President has warned.
Bharrat Jagdeo says rainforest areas twice the size of the UK could be destroyed unless US$ 29 billion is provided between now and 2020 to promote ‘forest-friendly’ growth.
This could deliver a 50% reduction in annual deforestation across the 26 net deforesting countries – equating to US$ 3.6 billion per...
Training on land cover classification for REDD+ in Bangladesh
15 Apr 2013
A training workshop on Land Cover Classification in the Context of REDD+ in Bangladesh was held in Dhaka, 24–25 March. This workshop cum training, organized by the Forest Department of Bangladesh and the FAO under the UN-REDD Programme, focused on outlining different classification systems and constraints related to the harmonization of available data related to and making recommendations for a classification system in line with UNFCCC decisions and IPCC guidelines.
The workshop...
Cambodia: Soldiers detain REDD forest patrol members
15 Apr 2013
Community forest patrollers in Oddar Meanchey’s Samrong district say they were forced to return saws and timber they seized from illegal loggers after soldiers detained and threatened them on Sunday.
The 27-member patrol, funded by development NGO Pact as part of the REDD+ carbon credit program, was detained by two armed soldiers while returning to their office with two chainsaws and 100 planks of luxury timber they had seized on Saturday from four villagers felling trees in protected...