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    Reducing Amazon Deforestation through Agricultural Intensification in the Cerrado for Advancing Food Security and Mitigating Climate Change

    Sustainability

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2018
    Brazil
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Forest Tenure
    Urban Tenure
    Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
    land productivity

    Important among global issues is the trilemma of abrupt climate change, food insecurity, and environmental degradation. Despite the increasing use of fossil fuel, about one third of global C emissions come from tropical deforestation and indiscriminate use of agricultural practices. Global food insecurity, affecting one in seven persons, aggravates environmental degradation. The importance of judicious land use and soil sustainability in addressing the trilemma cannot be overemphasized.

  2. Library Resource

    Resolving Conflict between Parties and Consequences for Foreign Direct Investment: The Repsol-YPF Case in Argentina

    Sustainability

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2019
    Argentina
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Forest Tenure
    Land & Investments
    Urban Tenure
    expropriation

    In 2012, the Argentine government expropriated 51% of the shares of Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales S.A. (YPF) from the Spanish company Repsol S.A. The YPF was nationalized without prior compensation, violating Argentina’s own laws and, consequently, the institutional framework in force in the country. As a consequence, the country’s reputation deteriorated and, although there were several contacts with multinational enterprises to become YPF’s new partner, the investment climate was affected, making it really difficult to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).

  3. Library Resource

    Lessons Learned from the Water Producer Project in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil

    Forests

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2019
    Brazil
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Forest Tenure
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
    land tenure

    Forest and landscape restoration (FLR) is a powerful strategy for large-scale tropical forest recovery, and payment for ecosystem services (PES) is used to support FLR programs and projects on privately-owned land. In this article, we discuss the lessons learned from the Water Producer Project, a pioneer, multiple-stakeholder, and PES-supported FLR project in the Atlantic Forest, south-eastern Brazil. The project was implemented in four landscapes located in two municipalities.

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    REDD+ as a Public Policy Dilemma: Understanding Conflict and Cooperation in the Design of Conservation Incentives

    Forests

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2018
    Peru, Ecuador
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Forest Tenure
    Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
    Urban Tenure
    land governance

    Command-and-control policies are often criticized as insufficient to tackle tropical deforestation. Over the past two decades, both academics and policy-makers have promoted incentive-based policies, notably REDD+ (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), as attractive alternatives to curb forest loss, while also potentially contributing to the poverty reduction of forest-dwelling populations. Governments have been the driving force behind the largest incentive-based forest conservation programs in Latin America.

  5. Library Resource

    Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees: The Oversight of Defaunation in REDD+ and Global Forest Governance

    Forests

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2019
    Indonesia, Nigeria, Ecuador, Colombia
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Forest Tenure
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
    land governance

    Over the past decade, countries have strived to develop a global governance structure to halt deforestation and forest degradation, by achieving the readiness requirements for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+). Nonetheless, deforestation continues, and seemingly intact forest areas are being degraded. Furthermore, REDD+ may fail to consider the crucial ecosystem functions of forest fauna including seed dispersal and pollination.

  6. Library Resource

    Fortalecimiento de la gobernanza forestal en Panamá

    Aporte de las acciones FLEGT para el fortalecimiento de las opciones de la Estrategia Nacional REDD+ en Panamá

    Reports & Research
    December, 2018
    Latin America and the Caribbean, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Colombia
    Forest Landscape Restoration
    Forest Tenure
    natural resources management

    La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), en convenio con el Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), ha buscado determinar en qué medida las acciones para el fortalecimiento del Programa FLEGT (aplicación de las leyes, gobernanza y comercio forestales) podrán contribuir a la mitigación del cambio climático en el contexto de REDD+ (Estrategia para la reducción de emisiones por deforestación y degradación de bosques).

  7. Library Resource

    Informe del Diálogo sobre Directrices Voluntarias sobre la Gobernanza responsable de la Tenencia de la Tierra, la Pesca y los Bosques

    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2018
    Central America, Panama
    Forest Tenure
    Land Degradation & Tenure
    VGGT
    natural resources management

    Históricamente América Central es una región con importantes niveles de inequidad en la distribución y uso de los recursos naturales. Estos niveles de inequidades, partes de procesos económico socios y políticos (concentración de las cadenas de valores, agricultura de escala industrial apoyada por políticas publicas hacia los mercados de exportación), han generado algunas problemáticas relacionadas a la gobernanza de los recursos y su tenencia, tanto para la población como para los ecosistemas que sustentan en gran medida el crecimiento económico de los países de la región.

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