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COP22 Special: REDD+ monitoring is a technical and political balancing act

By: Barbara Fraser


Date: 10 November 2016


Source: Cifor


 


The success of measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) systems lies not only in their technical design, but also in their social and economic implications


Monitoring deforestation so countries can track their greenhouse gas emission targets might seem like a technical matter of satellite images and data.

Land Rights Matter! Anchors to Reduce Land Grabbing, Dispossession and Displacement

Reports & Research
September, 2016
South-Eastern Asia
Cambodia
Indonesia
Laos
Myanmar
Philippines
Vietnam

“It is paradoxical but hardly surprising that the right to food has been endorsed more often and with greater unanimity and urgency than most other human rights, while at the same time being violated more comprehensively and systematically than probably any other.”


Richard Cohen, in Causes of Hunger, 1994


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