Authors: Howard, J.; Hoyt, S.; Isensee, K.; Telszewski, M.; Pidgeon, E.; eds

Authors: Lee, J. S. H.; Garcia-Ulloa, J.; Ghazoul, J.; Obidzinski, K.; Koh, L.P.

The effectiveness of land-sharing and land-sparing approaches has been widely debated. Yet, few studies quantify the environmental and socio-economic outcomes

Authors: Barlow, J.; Parry, L.; Gardner, T.; Ferreira, J.; Aragão, Luiz E.O.C.; Carmenta, R.; Berenguer, E.; Vieira, I; Souza, C.; Cochrane, M.

Fires are increasingly responsible for forest degradation in the humid tropics due to the expansion of fire-dependent agriculture, fragmentation, intensive

Authors: Alvarez, J.P.; Montero, D.F.; Barrantes, E.B.; Takahashi, T.P.; Menton, M.

In this study, we assessed the media coverage of the REDD+ mechanism in Peru’s national and subnational newspapers to better

Authors: Murdiyarso, D.; Kauffman, J.B.; Verchot, L.V.; Purbopuspito, J.; Warren, M.; Hergoualc';h, K.

Authors: Wijaya, A.; Sasmito, S.D.; Purbopuspito, J.; Murdiyarso, D.

Mangrove ecosystem is among the most richest carbon in the tropics . The study by Donato, et.al (2011) estimated the

Authors: Murdiyarso, D.

Indonesia is home to vast tropical forests, but with deforestation rates approaching 1.8 per cent annually, it is also among

Authors: Duchelle, A.E.; Jagger, P.

Results-based financing of REDD+ is conditional on the implementation of national Safeguard Information Systems (SIS) to address social and environmental

Authors: Jagger, P.; Brockhaus, M.; Duchelle, A.E.; Gebara, M.F.; Lawlor, K.; Resosudarmo. I.A.P.; Sunderlin, W.D.

Countries are grappling with how to integrate social safeguards into national and subnational REDD+ architectures. Safeguard policies are intended to

Authors: Brockhaus, M.; Wong, G.Y.; Luttrell, C.; Loft, L.; Pham, T.T.; Duchelle, A.E.; Assembe-Mvondo, S.; Di Gregorio, M.

Operationalizing safeguards in national REDD+ architectures remains a major challenge in most REDD+ countries, particularly in the area of benefit

Authors: Sunderlin, W.D.

Although REDD+ proponents have worked hard to clarify and change tenure arrangements in subnational initiatives, they are falling short of

Authors: Larson, A.M.; Dokken, T.; Duchelle, A.E.

"Participation" is an insufficient measure to safeguard women’s interests. Rather, gender-responsive analyses are needed to understand real and perceived gender

Authors: Murray, J.P.; Jones, J.P.G.

Biodiversity safeguards were introduced into the REDD+ mechanism to avoid potential harm to biodiversity. However, for REDD+ to truly contribute

Authors: Jagger, P.; Rana, P.

Developing low-cost, rigorous and sustainable systems for the measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of national or subnational social safeguards presents

Authors: Wong, G.Y.

Key Lessons

• Conditionality is a key element of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs and its use has broad political and social