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Updates about climate change, REDD+, indigenous rights, governance, livelihoods and benefits, and other issues affecting the 450 million people living in and around forests in Asia and the Pacific.To contribute as a guest blogger, contact RECOFTC's Assistant Communication Officer, Kerry Woodward, at kerry.woodward@recoftc.org. While RECOFTC welcomes your contributions it reserves the right not to publish or edit them in conformity with its editorial policies.
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REDD+, forests and food
At Durban’s Forest Day 5, the resounding message was that REDD+ will not work if people are hungry. How can we expect the poor to conserve forest resources if their food security – their very survival – rests on the use or consumption of those resources?
Part of the problem is a perceived trade-off between cultivating land for agriculture and preserving it as forestland. RECOFTC discusses this, and other opportunity costs of REDD+ for local people, in the latest REDD-Net Bulletin, in which we point out that current market values for forest carbon offsets simply cannot compete with global prices for crops like rubber, oil palm, and coffee.
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Posted by RECOFTC on January 17, 2012
https://recoftc.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/redd-forests-and-food/