Title
Evaluating the Impact of REDD+ Interventions on Household Forest Revenue in Peru
Date Issued
25 March 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Center for International Forestry Research
Publisher(s)
Frontiers Media S.A.
Abstract
REDD+ was conceived as a system of incentives for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation. While this could include many different types of interventions to reduce deforestation and degradation, a consensus has emerged that they should safeguard and “do no harm” to the forest-based livelihoods of local people. Many REDD+ projects have been designed to incentivize forest conservation and support local livelihoods by promoting sustainable use of the forest, hence increasing the revenues earned by local households from forest products. We examine two such projects in the Peruvian Amazon, using panel survey data from over 400 households gathered in 2011 and 2014. In the 3 years between surveys, we observed a severe decline in forest revenue. However, by using a BACI study design and matching, we show that this decrease was not caused by the REDD+ interventions. Thus, REDD+ “did no harm” to local people, at least in terms of forest revenues in the early phases of these two projects in the Peruvian Amazon.
Volume
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Forestal
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85106058356
Source
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
ISSN of the container
2624893X
Sponsor(s)
This research was part of CIFOR’s Global Comparative Study on REDD+ (www.cifor.org/gcs). The funding partners that have supported this research include the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad; QZA-10/0468, QZA-12/0882, QZA-16/0110), the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT; 46167, 63560), the European Commission (EC; DCI-ENV/2011/269-520), the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB; KI II 7 – 42206-6/75), the United Kingdom Department for International Development (UKAID; TF069018), and the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (CRP-FTA), with financial support from the donors contributing to the CGIAR Fund.
We thank the communities in Madre de Dios and Ucayali who participated in this research, as well as the CIFOR field teams for their careful data collection efforts, including Valerie Garrish and Emilio Perales who supervised the first two phases of fieldwork. We also appreciate Bosques Amazónicos (BAM) and Asociación para la Investigación y Desarrollo Integral (AIDER) for their collaboration with GCS REDD+. A special thank you to Mella Komalasari for support with this manuscript. Funding. This research was part of CIFOR's Global Comparative Study on REDD+ (www.cifor.org/gcs). The funding partners that have supported this research include the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad; QZA-10/0468, QZA-12/0882, QZA-16/0110), the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT; 46167, 63560), the European Commission (EC; DCI-ENV/2011/269-520), the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB; KI II 7 – 42206-6/75), the United Kingdom Department for International Development (UKAID; TF069018), and the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (CRP-FTA), with financial support from the donors contributing to the CGIAR Fund.
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