Diversity of Perceptions on REDD+ Implementation at the Agriculture Frontier in Panama
Colonist farmers have been largely ignored to date in national consultations on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). Yet, good practices suggest that understanding all relevant stakeholders’ perspectives, goals, and issues is a precondition for the development of suc...
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| description | Colonist farmers have been largely ignored to date in national consultations on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). Yet, good practices suggest that understanding all relevant stakeholders’ perspectives, goals, and issues is a precondition for the development of successful environmental policies. The present research documents perceptions of the civil society and the government on the possibility of successfully implementing REDD+ activities with colonist farmers. The focus is on Eastern Panama. The perceptions on REDD+ vary greatly depending on the stakeholders’ origins. The government perceives REDD+ as a possibility for improving laws, increasing control over the national territory, and investing more resources for conservation and public institutions, whereas respondents from colonist backgrounds mostly insist on the potential economic benefits and/or the negative implications that could encompass REDD+. Noncolonist participants from regional, national, and international organizations instead try to balance concerns of communities and conservation objectives. Because one of our results highlighted the difficulty of colonist farmers in speaking as a united voice, we carried out a case study of a successful colonists association in order to identify the characteristics and practices found to facilitate communal organization. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-181bf5f7fb894a24b9f41ce00689a6d62025-08-20T02:02:29ZengWileyInternational Journal of Forestry Research1687-93681687-93762013-01-01201310.1155/2013/657846657846Diversity of Perceptions on REDD+ Implementation at the Agriculture Frontier in PanamaGuillaume Peterson St-Laurent0Nancy Gélinas1Catherine Potvin2Department of Biology, McGill University, 1205 Doctor Penfield Avenue, Montreal, QC, H3A 1B1, CanadaFaculté de Foresterie, de Géographie et de Géomatique, Université Laval, Québec, QC, G1K 7P4, CanadaDepartment of Biology, McGill University, 1205 Doctor Penfield Avenue, Montreal, QC, H3A 1B1, CanadaColonist farmers have been largely ignored to date in national consultations on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). Yet, good practices suggest that understanding all relevant stakeholders’ perspectives, goals, and issues is a precondition for the development of successful environmental policies. The present research documents perceptions of the civil society and the government on the possibility of successfully implementing REDD+ activities with colonist farmers. The focus is on Eastern Panama. The perceptions on REDD+ vary greatly depending on the stakeholders’ origins. The government perceives REDD+ as a possibility for improving laws, increasing control over the national territory, and investing more resources for conservation and public institutions, whereas respondents from colonist backgrounds mostly insist on the potential economic benefits and/or the negative implications that could encompass REDD+. Noncolonist participants from regional, national, and international organizations instead try to balance concerns of communities and conservation objectives. Because one of our results highlighted the difficulty of colonist farmers in speaking as a united voice, we carried out a case study of a successful colonists association in order to identify the characteristics and practices found to facilitate communal organization.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/657846 |
| spellingShingle | Guillaume Peterson St-Laurent Nancy Gélinas Catherine Potvin Diversity of Perceptions on REDD+ Implementation at the Agriculture Frontier in Panama International Journal of Forestry Research |
| title | Diversity of Perceptions on REDD+ Implementation at the Agriculture Frontier in Panama |
| title_full | Diversity of Perceptions on REDD+ Implementation at the Agriculture Frontier in Panama |
| title_fullStr | Diversity of Perceptions on REDD+ Implementation at the Agriculture Frontier in Panama |
| title_full_unstemmed | Diversity of Perceptions on REDD+ Implementation at the Agriculture Frontier in Panama |
| title_short | Diversity of Perceptions on REDD+ Implementation at the Agriculture Frontier in Panama |
| title_sort | diversity of perceptions on redd implementation at the agriculture frontier in panama |
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