The publication "Reducing Emissions from All Land Uses (REALU) - Vietnam: Will current forest land tenure impede REDD+ efforts in Vietnam?" is now available form the South East Asia ICRAF website.
Authors are Do Trong Hoan, Delia Catacutan, Vu Thi Hien and Lai Tung Quan.
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 ﾑforest land tenantsﾒ, 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?
