The Amazon has a diverse array of social and environmental initiatives that adopt forest-based land-use practices to promote rural development and support local livelihoods. However, they are often insufficiently recognized as transformative pathways to sustainability and the factors that explain their success remain understudied.

While emissions trading already began in the late 1980s and early 1990s, carbon markets can officially be traced back to the Kyoto Protocol of 1997. The Kyoto Protocol introduced market-based mechanisms allowing countries to trade emission allowances and invest in emission reduction projects overseas.

À la suite de la publication du Bulletin de veille n°381 spécial genre et développement rural et du Grain de sel n°80 « Les savoirs féminins : quelle contribution à la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle ? », Inter-réseaux a souhaité continuer à explorer la question sous l’angle de la protection sociale comme solution à la problématique du travail non rémunéré.