Propensity of Farmers to Conserve Forest within REDD + Projects in Areas Affected by Armed-Conflict
Publisher: Forest Policy and Economics
Author(s): Augusto Castro-Nunez, Ole Mertz, and Marcela Quintero
Date: 2016
Topics: Climate Change, Renewable Resources
Countries: Colombia
The implementation of carbon-storage efforts in countries experiencing armed conflicts or confronting illegal activities (such as illicit crop cultivation) will permit additional tropical forests to be protected for climate change mitigation. Yet, despite these potential gains, the appropriate design and application of forest conservation and climate change mitigation approaches such as the mechanism for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD +) in such contexts remain little studied. Unanswered questions relate to the propensity of farmers in conflict affected areas to conserve forests for climate change mitigation.