PRESA’s
work on Payments for Environmental Services (PES) at the
Sasumua watershed in Kenya has resulted in the inclusion of PES as an
effective water resource management mechanism within key government policy on
water.
A multifunctional
approach to REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and
degradation) will be far more effective in reducing greenhouse gas emissions
and increasing food production than the practice of intensifying agriculture and
sparing forests. Read more
Common success
factors for the countries studied were high level government support, forest
governance reforms that addressed challenges in transparency and accountability
as well as resolving the issue of secure tenure rights that facilitate
community ownership.
The type of agriculture practiced around a forest area,
type of land users and the long-term agricultural drivers of land use change
should inform an effective REDD design.
A boundary between science and politics is essential to
give free enquiry a chance, but it also implies that the boundary must be
bridged for new findings to be appreciated and used.
