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Communities, smallholders and their organisations to address climate change

Year of publication 2016

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 1 p., illus.

Author Forest and Farm Facility

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Poster, banner

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Climate financing programmes such as REDD+, the Green Climate Fund and other efforts aim to provide global climate benefits while operating at local landscape levels. Failure to find the best way to engage and channel resources to local stakeholders and align their interests with forest conservation will significantly compromise the chances of achieving the carbon sequestration and mitigation targets, and could further marginalize poor and vulnerable people. It is here that forest and farm produ cer organisations play a pivotal role Local communities and smallholders have shown an enormous potential to preserve forest landscapes and generate economic and social development benefits. But they require critical enabling conditions to be in place which include not only secure commercial forest tenure, but also local organization with technical and business capacity to restore and sustainable and profitable use forest landscapes. For this reason, as REDD+ and other programmes are moving from planning to implementation, the role and participation of forest and farm producer organisations ought to be given much more prominence both in adapting to and mitigating climate change. By building inclusive partnerships, programs like REDD+ could channel the enabling investments that will secure tenure and build the organizational capacity to make resilient use of it across a range of sectors.

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