A Case Study of Work with Brazil Nut Producer Associations (Madre de Dios, Peru) The Brazil nut is one of the world’s most widely consumed non-timber forest products (NTFP). It is also one of a relatively small number of globally traded commodities that is helping to save threatened forests. Harvested from the fruit-fall of giant […]
This report is the second of ten case studies produced as part of a community forestry project in Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru. The study chronicles work undertaken with indigenous Miskitu communities in the Kruta-Caratasca basin, at the extreme eastern tip of Honduras, to manage and market batana oil, a non-timber forest product that […]
This report is the first of ten case studies produced as part of a community forestry project in Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru. The study focuses on the indigenous Mayangna of Awas Tingni, located in the North Atlantic Autonomous region of Nicaragua, an area where the Rainforest Alliance has been working since 2007. The […]
Deforestation in the tropics is a significant cause of global climate change (Murdiyarso, Hergoualc’h and Verchot 2010). Where land conversion is fueled by commodity agriculture, it is imperative to engage farmers in climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices that include forest conservation. For smallholder cocoa producers in Ghana, increasing on-farm carbon storage and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) […]
Through the Mexico REDD+ Alliance, the Rainforest Alliance and project partners are implementing community-based climate change education and capacity building activities, using the Forest Conservation and Climate Change Curriculum Toolkit, in order to ensure that indigenous and smallholder communities receive the knowledge needed to make informed decisions about their natural resources and actively participate in […]
Climate change education supports community engagement in sustainable forest management and REDD+ in Madre de Dios, Peru.