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   Reflections on the limited impact of the VGGT in Sub-Saharan Africa and opportunities for its future with lessons from Nigeria and Sierra Leone

   Journal Articles & Books

   February, 2022

   Africa, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Global

   Forest Tenure

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   Land & Investments

   VGGT

   scale

   land investments

   The reality that significant improvements in security of tenure at scale in rural Africa are still needed nearly a decade after the adoption of the Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land;Fisheries and Forests (VGGT) suggests a need to explore its limitations and consider what it would take to realize its objectives. The article documents significant impacts of the VGGT reform processes and highlights illustrative or “one-off” results.

2. Library Resource

   

   Questioning the use of ‘degradation’ in climate mitigation: A case study of a forest carbon CDM project in Uganda

   Land Use Policy Volume 59

   Peer-reviewed publication

   December, 2016

   Uganda

   Forest Landscape Restoration

   Forest Tenure

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   climate change

   deforestation

   geographical information systems

   land use

   research

   An urgent need to stop degradation is frequently cited as support for climate mitigation efforts involving forests. However, lessons learnt from social science research on degradation narratives are not taken into consideration. This creates a risk of problematic degradation narratives being used to legitimise forest carbon projects. This study examined a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) forest plantation in Uganda, where incomplete and partly contradictory evidence on land use change was interpreted in a way that overemphasised degradation.