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Reducing Emissions from All Land Uses (REALU) - Vietnam: Will current forest land tenure impede REDD+ efforts in Vietnam? (in Vietnam language)

author(s) Hoan D T - Catacutan D - Hien V - Quan L T
from World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
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  • South-Eastern Asia
  • Asia
  • World
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Hoan D T et al., 'Reducing Emissions from All Land Uses (REALU) - Vietnam: Will current forest land tenure impede REDD+ efforts in Vietnam? (in Vietnam language)', 2012

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Abstract

Most REDD+ initiatives such as UN-REDD and the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) identify tenure reform as an important aspect of REDD+ readiness. In Vietnam, different forest land and forest tenure exist but are plagued with issues, which challenged many forest conservation projects. So, will this impede REDD+ efforts? Tenure also became important to Payments for Forest Environmental Services (PFES), as payments could only be transferred to official ‘forest land tenants’, undermining many non-tenured forest protectors from accessing benefits. Two critical questions: Should tenure be first addressed for REDD+ to be functional? Or can it be a means for improving current tenure arrangements?

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