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“I’m the first person they turn to when they can’t resolve disputes amicably,” says Nong Thi Nguyet, a 50-year old woman and village head from the Vietnamese Na Ray village in Na Ri district, Bac Kan province, Viet Nam. Petite Nong Thi Nquyet stands...

Map: charcoal production areas for the major cities and towns, developed from national data. Charcoal production is both an ecosystem service and a driver of forest degradation, especially in dry areas of Kenya. Strategic options to increase...

Putting an economic value on our natural environmental is difficult both from an ethical and technical perspective. Nature is therefore often regarded as ‘priceless’ and in our globalized economic system, the value of most of nature’s services is...

The arrival of the REDD+ concept, namely payments for reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, brought with it two significant departures from standard overseas development assistance (ODA). The first is the payment schedule...

In an August 2016 Forest Trends report, entitled “The Geography of REDD+ Finance”, Michael Wolosin and his co-authors, discuss the spatial distribution of REDD+ finance and its relation to forest cover, forest loss and emissions patterns at both the...

Peru’s National Strategy for Forests and Climate Change (ENBCC), which provides a multisectoral framework for the design and implementation of policies and measures to reduce deforestation and forest degradation, has recently been approved by the...