Concerns among developing countries about REDD+ “aid conditionality” — development aid payouts made based on achieving certain greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions — are creating a barrier in international climate negotiations, a new repor…
Relatively little is known about how local forest people feel about schemes to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (known as REDD+), even though their participation contributes to equitable, efficient and effective outcomes.
When indigenous people migrate from forest communities to towns, they leave behind their traditional diet and switch to chicken, eggs, sausages or canned meat – a menu that is sapping the nutritional diversity from people’s diets, according to surv…