International policy commitments highlight the importance of balancing agricultural development with conservation of tropical forest landscapes for climate change mitigation (UNFCCC, 2015), biodiversity conservation (CBD, 2010), and generally sustainable development trajectories (UN, 2015). The Amazon basin has over the last decades become one of the major producer and exporter regions of agricultural commodities (Macedo et al., 2012) at the expense of rampant deforestation (Nepstad et al., 2014; Soares-Filho et al., 2006).
Survey on REDD Communications Barriers and Needs
Survey on REDD Communications Barriers and Needs
The Forum on Readiness for REDD interviewed 70 engaged stakeholders in the REDD+ Readiness process, asking questions about how they receive information, what kind of information they are looking for, and what challenges they face in getting the information they need. The results of these surveys have been compiled and analyzed in the attached in this White Paper.