Linking Smallholder Plantations to Global Markets
Lessons from the IKEA model in Vietnam
By Nguyen Vinh Quang, To Xuan Phuc, Nguyen Ton Quyen, Cao Thi CamExport-oriented wood processing companies in Vietnam are increasingly entering into legally-binding contractual relationships with smallholder producers – the country’s main source of domestically-grown plantation timber. One of the best examples of this “linkage model” is the partnership between households in Vietnam’s mountainous areas and companies that specialize in processing FSC-certified wood products for IKEA. This […]
Untapped Potential: Forest Ecosystem Services for Achieving SDG 15
UNFF13 Background Analytical Study
By Michael Jenkins and Brian SchaapThe world’s forest ecosystems provide critical and diverse services and values to human society. As primary habitat for a wide range of species, forests support biodiversity maintenance and conservation. Yet, continuing forest loss worldwide negatively impacts the livelihoods of millions of people and poses major challenges to sustainable development, in part because these forest ecosystem services continue to be […]
The transboundary displacement of deforestation under REDD+
Problematic intersections between the trade of forest-risk commodities and land grabbing in the Mekong region
The fragmentary adoption of REDD+ across forest nations leaves room for the displacement of deforestation from early-adopters and countries with more rigorous carbon-related regulatory regimes to late-adopters of REDD+. While this displacement is expected to be substantial, our empirical understanding of the causal pathways of transboundary displacement remains weak. Our research addresses this lacuna, focusing[…]
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Zooming In: Companies, Commodities, & Traceability Commitments that Count, 2018
By Stephen Donofrio - Senior Advisor, Supply Change, Philip Rothrock - Associate, Supply Change, Jonathan Leonard - Associate, Supply Change“Zooming In” presents new analysis by Forest Trends’ Supply Change Initiative and Ceres about how companies that are committed to addressing commodity-driven deforestation are tracing supplies to their origin—be it factory, farm, field, or forest—so they can determine the impact their supply chains have on forests. Companies with exposure to deforestation in their supply chains […]
Mapping Forest Finance: A Landscape of Available Sources of Finance for REDD+ and Climate Action in Forests
By Breanna Lujan, Gustavo Silva-Chávez - Environmental Defense Fund, Forest TrendsThis report identifies the sources of funding currently available for REDD+ and climate action in forests, and analyzes the challenges and opportunities for accessing and coordinating this finance. It serves as a resource for negotiators, policymakers, practitioners, NGOs, and others involved with the implementation of REDD+ and climate action in forests. Among other things, the […]
Trade Measures to Support Legal and Sustainable Agriculture in Brazil
By Josh Gregory - Forest TrendsBrazil is a major producer and exporter of agricultural commodities (such as beef, soy, and cotton) that are associated with deforestation in the Amazon and surrounding regions. A way to reduce deforestation in Brazil, would be the implementation of trade measures, border policies directed at imports or exports of particular products. This report discusses two […]
Peace in Myanmar Demands a Focus on Natural Resources and a Reform of their Management
By Forest TrendsMyanmar’s progress towards peace appears stalled. Since independence, the military and ethnic groups, living at the margins of both the country and its power structure, have fought in some of the world’s longest running civil wars. In 2015, one of the major coalitions of ethnic groups, the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), refused to sign […]
Toward a Financial Architecture to Protect Tropical Forests
The Case of Brazil
By Rupert EdwardsThis report focuses on Brazil both as a critical forest country and in order to describe an architecture of finance based on a particular framework of law and existing institutional efforts to protect forests. Despite a challenging macroeconomic environment, Brazil has the most developed legislative framework for tropical forest protection in the Forest Code, powerful […]
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Toward a Financial Architecture to Protect Tropical Forests
The Case of Brazil (Executive Summary)
By Rupert Edwards
The Potential for the EITI to Bring Transparency to the Forestry Sector in Myanmar
Sunlight Is the Best Disinfectant
By Forest TrendsMyanmar has chosen to include forestry in the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI). Although reporting and contract disclosure will be a challenge, if the EITI can increase transparency, it can help inform public debate and drive future reform. The more people understand, the harder it is for the sector to be corrupt. Related read: What […]
Financing Conservation and Sustainable Land Use in the Amazon
Althelia’s Tambopata-Bahuaja REDD+ and Agroforestry Project
By Luis Miguel Ormeño and Joshua GregoryPeru’s National Service of Natural Protected Areas (SERNANP), in co-management with the Asociación para la Investigación y Desarrollo Integral (AIDER) and with financial support from Althelia Ecosphere, is implementing the REDD+ Tambopata Bahuaja-Sonene Project as part of the Partial Administration Contract for the Tambopata National Reserve (RNTAMB) and the Bahuaja-Sonene National Park (PNBS), both NPAs […]
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