REDD herrings or REDD menace: response to Beymer-Farris and Bassett

Neil D. Burgess; Shadrack Mwakalila; Pantaleo K.T. Munishi; Marion Pfeifer; Simon Willcock; Deo Shirima; Seki Hamidu; George B. Bulenga; Jason Rubens; Haji Machano; Rob Marchant

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.05.013

REDD herrings or REDD menace: response to Beymer-Farris and Bassett

Neil D. Burgess
, Shadrack Mwakalila
, Pantaleo K.T. Munishi
, Marion Pfeifer
, Simon Willcock
, Deo Shirima
, Seki Hamidu
, George B. Bulenga
, Jason Rubens
, Haji Machano
, Rob Marchant

University of Leeds
University of Southampton

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Abstract

Norwegian funded REDD+ projects in Tanzania have attracted a lot of attention, as has the wider REDD+ policy that aims to reduce deforestation and degradation and enhance carbon storage in forests of the developing countries. One of these REDD+ projects, managed by WWF Tanzania, was criticised in a scientific paper published in GEC, and consequently in the global media, for being linked to attempted evictions of communities living in the Rufiji delta mangroves by the Government of Tanzania, allegedly to make the area ?ready for REDD?. In this response, we show how this eviction event in Rufiji mangroves has a history stretching back over 100 years, has nothing to do with REDD+ or any policy changes by government, and is not in any way linked to the work of any WWF project in Tanzania. We also outline some of the broader challenges faced by REDD+ in Tanzania

Original language	Unknown
Pages (from-to)	1349-1354
Number of pages	6
Journal	Global Environmental Change
Volume	23
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.05.013
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2013
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

UNFCCC REDD+, carbon storage/sequestration, livelihoods, forest eviction, ommunity/Participatory forest management

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