Assessing sustainable forest management under REDD +: : A community-based labour perspective

• Autores: Patrick Bottazzi, Andrea Cattaneo, David Crespo Rocha, Stephan Rist
• Localización: Ecological Economics, ISSN-e 1873-6106, Nº. 93, 2013, págs. 94-103
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation plus (REDD +) encourages economic support for reducing deforestation and conserving or increasing existing forest carbon stocks. The way in which incentives are structured affects trade-offs between local livelihoods, carbon emission reduction, and the cost-effectiveness of a REDD + programme. Looking at first-hand empirical data from 208 farming households in the Bolivian Amazon from a household economy perspective, our study explores two policy options: 1) compensated reduction of emissions from old-growth forest clearing for agriculture, and 2) direct payments for labour input into sustainable forest management combined with a commitment not to clear old-growth forest. Our results indicate that direct payments for sustainable forest management � an approach that focuses on valuing farmers' labour input � can be more cost-effective than compensated reduction and in some cases is the most appropriate choice for achieving improved household incomes, permanence of changes, avoidance of leakages, and community-based institutional enforcement for sustainable forest management.