ASB manual guides REDD+ opportunity cost training in Peru

The Peruvian Ministry of Environment, the German Cooperation Agency (GIZ) and World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) brought together 53 professionals to Chacaclayo, Peru for a 3 and a half day workshop on opportunity costs of avoided deforestation. The participants included foresters (12), economists (9), biologists (7), environmental engineers (4), agronomists (3), geographers (3) and others (15). Focusing on methods for analyzing trade-offs between livelihoods and environment, the workshop used methods and protocols developed by the ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins over the last two decades. Read more