Roots of inequity: how the implementation of REDD+ reinforces past injustices
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Roots of inequity : how the implementation of REDD+ reinforces past injustices. / Chomba, Susan Wangui; Kariuki, Juliet; Lund, Jens Friis; Sinclair, Fergus.
I: Land Use Policy, Bind 50, 2016, s. 202-213.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Roots of inequity
T2 - how the implementation of REDD+ reinforces past injustices
AU - Chomba, Susan Wangui
AU - Kariuki, Juliet
AU - Lund, Jens Friis
AU - Sinclair, Fergus
N1 - Available online 26 October 2015
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The extent to which REDD+ initiatives should be a mechanism to address poverty and provide other co-benefits apart from carbon storage, is hotly debated. Here, we examine the benefit distribution policy and practice of a prominent REDD+ project in Kenya with the aim of understanding the extent to which it addresses equity. We reveal that while the project design was attentive to equity concerns in distributing benefits amongst the project implementer, landowners and the wider population of small-scale farmers and pastoralists in the area, in practice, the initial flow of benefits were concentrated in the hands of a few. This was because developments in land tenure since pre-colonial times had involved processes of dispossession and elite capture, enabled by colonial and post-colonial land policies that left the majority of local people with little or no land entitlement. As the distributive policy of the project maps onto the existing unequal land distribution, it reinforces inequality. By illustrating how current, well-intended, REDD+ efforts inadvertently come to entrench a long process of dispossession of marginalized people, we call attention to the pivotal importance that historical context plays in discussions of equity and social safeguards related to implementing REDD+ initiatives and related policy.
AB - The extent to which REDD+ initiatives should be a mechanism to address poverty and provide other co-benefits apart from carbon storage, is hotly debated. Here, we examine the benefit distribution policy and practice of a prominent REDD+ project in Kenya with the aim of understanding the extent to which it addresses equity. We reveal that while the project design was attentive to equity concerns in distributing benefits amongst the project implementer, landowners and the wider population of small-scale farmers and pastoralists in the area, in practice, the initial flow of benefits were concentrated in the hands of a few. This was because developments in land tenure since pre-colonial times had involved processes of dispossession and elite capture, enabled by colonial and post-colonial land policies that left the majority of local people with little or no land entitlement. As the distributive policy of the project maps onto the existing unequal land distribution, it reinforces inequality. By illustrating how current, well-intended, REDD+ efforts inadvertently come to entrench a long process of dispossession of marginalized people, we call attention to the pivotal importance that historical context plays in discussions of equity and social safeguards related to implementing REDD+ initiatives and related policy.
KW - REDD
KW - Kenya
KW - Benefit sharing
KW - Small-scale farmers
KW - Land tenure
KW - Equity
U2 - 10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.09.021
DO - 10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.09.021
M3 - Journal article
VL - 50
SP - 202
EP - 213
JO - Land Use Policy
JF - Land Use Policy
SN - 0264-8377
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