Post by hasan77 on Feb 14, 2024 23:32:21 GMT -6
The rule of law across vast, unruly tropical forest frontiers. Rules and regulations are often complex and bureaucratic in their implementation, infrastructure is precarious, and economic elites often control and guard access to forests and their wealth, sometimes with force. There is tremendous scope, therefore, to improve the ease of doing business and lower risks to potential financial investors. The state of Acre, for example, has supported innovative new low-carbon protein industries, local processing of non-timber forest products (such as condoms fabricated from native rubber), and has supported the state’s producer-owned cooperative, COOPERACRE, as analyzed in our forthcoming study of Acre’s low-carbon industries and institutions (go here [PDF] for Acre’s jurisdictional sustainability profile.
The state of Mato Grosso (PDF) has accumulated more than 700 million tons of CO2eq in verified emissions reductions, recognized by the national REDD strategy, that could be used to offer carbon-neutral Fiji Email List commodities to its major soy markets or to create a forest fund, energizing its Produce, Conserve, Include Strategy. In Caquetá, Colombia (PDF), the Ministry of Agriculture has launched its first sustainable production finance credit line through FINAGRO. In Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, an "agricultural facility" has been created that can receive funding from partner companies and deliver it to smallholder farmers through technical assistance, part of an RSPO experiment in "jurisdictional certification.
Challenge 3: Indigenous peoples and other forest communities are still struggling to achieve formal recognition of their rights and support for their livelihoods Considerable progress has been made in the last 10 years in some countries to formally recognizing the territorial rights of indigenous peoples and other forest communities. There is still a long ways to go, however. One challenge is to provide the necessary support to these communities for continuing and improving their forest-maintaining livelihoods. Indigenous peoples are often the "responsibility" of national government agencies, with varying levels of effectiveness in defending the interests of forest-based communities.
The state of Mato Grosso (PDF) has accumulated more than 700 million tons of CO2eq in verified emissions reductions, recognized by the national REDD strategy, that could be used to offer carbon-neutral Fiji Email List commodities to its major soy markets or to create a forest fund, energizing its Produce, Conserve, Include Strategy. In Caquetá, Colombia (PDF), the Ministry of Agriculture has launched its first sustainable production finance credit line through FINAGRO. In Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, an "agricultural facility" has been created that can receive funding from partner companies and deliver it to smallholder farmers through technical assistance, part of an RSPO experiment in "jurisdictional certification.
Challenge 3: Indigenous peoples and other forest communities are still struggling to achieve formal recognition of their rights and support for their livelihoods Considerable progress has been made in the last 10 years in some countries to formally recognizing the territorial rights of indigenous peoples and other forest communities. There is still a long ways to go, however. One challenge is to provide the necessary support to these communities for continuing and improving their forest-maintaining livelihoods. Indigenous peoples are often the "responsibility" of national government agencies, with varying levels of effectiveness in defending the interests of forest-based communities.