A family collects Brazil nuts from their forest. Kristen Evans/CIFOR
Local forest communities in the REDD+ project sites of CIFOR’s Global Comparative Study understand the scheme to be fundamentally about forest protection. They hope that local REDD+ projects will improve their incomes but they also worry that they can negatively affect their livelihoods.
Brazil nut harvesters in Peru for example have many concerns for the scheme. Although almost all appreciate the value of protecting…