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Improving prospects of REDD mechanism’s inclusion in a post-2012 climate regime
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011
The Norwegian Government launched its International Climate and Forest Initiative in December 2007, aiming at reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD). In order to assess the results ...
What might REDD+ at the national level look like?
A. Angelsen (ed); M. Brockhaus; M. Kanninen / Center for International Forestry Research, 2009
More than 40 countries are developing national REDD+ strategies and policies, and hundreds of REDD+ projects have been initiated across the tropics. This book wants to inform these national and local processes, by asking some basic qu...
Implementing REDD in Tanzania and Uganda
A. Vatn; P. Vedeld; J.G. Petursson / Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009
This paper examines whether reduced emissions from forests – from deforestation and forest degradation (the REDD project) - should be included in a post-Kyoto agreement . It focuses on how REDD could be instituted at the na...
Increasing the capacity of the institution to solicit for funding from other agencies
T. Eide; B. Kamugusha / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2009
This paper is the final report of a Norwegian mission that was commissioned to undertake a review of ending phase I of the Norwegian support to National Forestry Authority (NFA) in Uganda.The mission was also asked to evaluate the pro...
How to complement 'Payment for Environmental Services' (PES) scheme of afforestation?
D. Gelo; S. Koch / Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009
This paper deals with the design of voluntary contract of afforestation subsidy in developing countries, where there are substantial variations among farmers in terms of land value. The dispersion in the land value is due to critical ...
Does the Ethiopian Productive Safety Net Program increase livestock holdings?
C. Andersson; A. Mekonnen; J. Stage / Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009
This paper evaluates the impacts of the Ethiopian Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) on rural households’ holdings of livestock and forest assets/trees.  It found that the number of trees increased for households that par...
The importance of written forestland certifications in stimulating investments
S. Holden; J. Xu; X. Jiang / Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009
This study assesses the determinants of forestland allocation to households in the forest tenure reforms in China in the period 1980-2005. It also examines the current level of tenure security on forestland and how this tenure securit...
FADCANIC’s project in Nicaragua: reducing the number of students who drop out from school before graduating
A. Borchgrevink / Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2009
The Fundación para la Autonomía y el Desarrollo de la Costa Atlántica de Nicaragua (FADCANIC) has established and is running the Environmental and Agroforestry Education Centre (CEAA) at Wawashang, in Nicaragua&rs...
Forest and fishery certification schemes: setting standards
L. H. Gulbrandsen 2008
This paper investigates the effectiveness of certification schemes in the forestry and fisheries sectors. It investigates an under-explored area of contemporary environmental politics: the formation and effectiveness of private sector...
International finance institutions as key players in ensuring good forest governance
F. Achard; J. Bennett; D. Beyer / Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID, 2008
This atlas focuses on a number of selected issues that are topical and important in terms of forests. The atlas examines changes in forest cover in various parts of the world over the last century. It also provides an analysis of the ...
Items 11 to 20 of 43

Items 11 to 20 of 43

Improving prospects of REDD mechanism’s inclusion in a post-2012 climate regime
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011
The Norwegian Government launched its International Climate and Forest Initiative in December 2007, aiming at reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD). In order to assess the results ...
What might REDD+ at the national level look like?
A. Angelsen (ed); M. Brockhaus; M. Kanninen / Center for International Forestry Research, 2009
More than 40 countries are developing national REDD+ strategies and policies, and hundreds of REDD+ projects have been initiated across the tropics. This book wants to inform these national and local processes, by asking some basic qu...
Implementing REDD in Tanzania and Uganda
A. Vatn; P. Vedeld; J.G. Petursson / Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009
This paper examines whether reduced emissions from forests – from deforestation and forest degradation (the REDD project) - should be included in a post-Kyoto agreement . It focuses on how REDD could be instituted at the na...
Increasing the capacity of the institution to solicit for funding from other agencies
T. Eide; B. Kamugusha / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2009
This paper is the final report of a Norwegian mission that was commissioned to undertake a review of ending phase I of the Norwegian support to National Forestry Authority (NFA) in Uganda.The mission was also asked to evaluate the pro...
How to complement 'Payment for Environmental Services' (PES) scheme of afforestation?
D. Gelo; S. Koch / Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009
This paper deals with the design of voluntary contract of afforestation subsidy in developing countries, where there are substantial variations among farmers in terms of land value. The dispersion in the land value is due to critical ...
Does the Ethiopian Productive Safety Net Program increase livestock holdings?
C. Andersson; A. Mekonnen; J. Stage / Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009
This paper evaluates the impacts of the Ethiopian Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) on rural households’ holdings of livestock and forest assets/trees.  It found that the number of trees increased for households that par...
The importance of written forestland certifications in stimulating investments
S. Holden; J. Xu; X. Jiang / Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009
This study assesses the determinants of forestland allocation to households in the forest tenure reforms in China in the period 1980-2005. It also examines the current level of tenure security on forestland and how this tenure securit...
FADCANIC’s project in Nicaragua: reducing the number of students who drop out from school before graduating
A. Borchgrevink / Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2009
The Fundación para la Autonomía y el Desarrollo de la Costa Atlántica de Nicaragua (FADCANIC) has established and is running the Environmental and Agroforestry Education Centre (CEAA) at Wawashang, in Nicaragua&rs...
Forest and fishery certification schemes: setting standards
L. H. Gulbrandsen 2008
This paper investigates the effectiveness of certification schemes in the forestry and fisheries sectors. It investigates an under-explored area of contemporary environmental politics: the formation and effectiveness of private sector...
International finance institutions as key players in ensuring good forest governance
F. Achard; J. Bennett; D. Beyer / Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID, 2008
This atlas focuses on a number of selected issues that are topical and important in terms of forests. The atlas examines changes in forest cover in various parts of the world over the last century. It also provides an analysis of the ...
Items 11 to 20 of 43

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