Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation in developing countries (REDD) Conservation Project in Tanzania

Since 2004 the Mpingo Conservation Project in Tanzania has been developing an approach to Participatory Forest Management (PFM) which focuses specifically on sustainable management of high-value hardwood timbers, working in the communal village lands of Kilwa District in the Lindi Region. Supported by the Norwegian Development Agency (NORAD), the project will now incorporate REDD payments as a catalyst to expand PFM and forest certification over a wider area, bringing substantial benefits to poor and natural resource-dependent rural communities and conserving greatly increased areas of forest. 

Esteve Corbera with colleagues Oliver Springate-Baginski and Adrian Martin at the School of International Development (UEA) will experiment with an approach to integrating PFM with a REDD payments system and test methods for the socio-economic assessment of such integration. 

Project site: www.mpingoconservation.org

Research duration: 2010-2013

Image Credit: "Tarangire_2012 05 27_1928" by Harvey Barrison is licensed under CC BY SA 2.0

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