| | | | | | |  As REDD+ evolves, success will require reform beyond the forestry sector to include tenure and other aspects of governance, writes CIFOR Director General Peter Holmgren—including major shifts in discourses, power relations and economic incentives.
| |  REDD+ safeguards, non-CO2 emissions, finance: These will be among the main topics of debate at the UN climate talks in Peru, according to two of the world's leading experts on climate science and policy. CIFOR's Lou Verchot and Steve Leonard examine the issues.
| |  Policymakers need to deal with human welfare concerns, say researchers about REDD+. Ahead of the UNFCCC COP, expectations are high for consensus on protections for indigenous and local communities in the REDD+ program.
| | | |  Decentralization has led to a complex distribution of powers over land use and tenure in Peru, making it difficult for some government bodies to fulfill their mandates—and explaining how a plot of land can be considered a farm and a gold mine at the same time.
| | | | Registration has sold out with almost 2,000 people already booked to be there — but you can still watch our live video feed of the biggest gathering of the world's top experts in forestry, agriculture, science and development: Go to landscapes.org/live for details.
| | |  Insects are an important part of people's diets around the world. In Cameroon, though, people are losing their tastes for beetles thanks in part to Western diets and Western religion. The problem? The beetles thrive in the artificial agricultural environment that local people have made—and so could turn from being a key source of food into an agricultural pest.
| | | |  In Bolivia, Mother Earth has the right to life—by law. But the landlocked country in the heart of South America is also committed to expanding food production to meet the needs of its growing population, and to using its land and forests for economic growth. Those two goals are on a collision course, according to a new study.
| | | Publications
 Further guidance for REDD+ safeguard information systems?: An analysis of positions in the UNFCCC negotiations  REDD+ politics in the media: A case study from Peru  Analysis of REDD+ policy networks in Peru  The harvest of wildlife for bushmeat and traditional medicine in East, South and Southeast Asia: Current knowledge base, challenges, opportunities and areas for future research  Biodiversity conservation: How can the regulation of bioprospecting under the Nagoya Protocol make a difference?  REDD+ Policy Network Analysis: Actors and power structures  Multi-Level policy dialogues, processes, and actions: Challenges and opportunities for national REDD+ safeguards Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV)  Field guide to Adaptive Collaborative Management and improving women's participation  The experience of conditional cash transfers: Lessons for REDD+ benefit sharing  Actor-specific contributions to the deforestation slowdown in the Brazilian Amazon Upcoming events
UNFCCC COP20
1 – 12 December 2014, Lima, Peru Global Landscapes Forum
6 – 7 December 2014, Lima, Peru | | | | | | | |
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