1 MAIN FINDINGS/OBSERVATIONS FROM SESA CASE STUDY FIELD WORK Case Benefits/Values Drivers Causes Potential REDD+ Strategy Other Issues/Questions arising Location/ Options likely to be applicable community Lofa-Zigida Cultural heritage Shifting population Family planning to ensure sustainable Build capacity for leadership skills – and sustenance cultivation growth and demand population growth and natural resource for food, energy and Integrated farming systems e.g. management and governance. Income and Commercial income livelihood security hunting Agroforestry systems and component Unless there is local interest in including food, Poverty [limited technologies. conservation efforts, outside NTFP, ecosystem Chainsaw choices or intervention unlikely to succeed. services milling availability of viable Need to enlist local support for Renewable energy e.g. mini-hydro, solar non-forest PV forest management and Domestic energy resources and conservation through support for supply for cooking, livelihoods options] on and reinforce local systems for initiatives that enable communities heating, regulating hunting share conservation benefits preservation arrived migrant husbands Livestock and fish farming to limit local Competing priorities between clearing forest to demand for bush meat and serve urban community livelihood needs and establish demands national conservation plans. ‘first- comer’ use rights Equitable and fair benefit sharing Land use planning Lack of mechanism (community capacity Livelihood and support for non-farm coordinated land income generating activities (NTFP, to manage benefits, administrative use planning handicrafts, small businesses, skills and management framework for training) direct cash payment to Gender sensitive direct cash payment for communities) Past interventions conservation focused on subsistence/ livelihood; new options/ new approaches needed Nimba- Cultural heritage Shifting Presence of Integrated farming systems e.g. Comments above apply. Gbarpa and sustenance cultivation scale mining Agroforestry systems and component concession and technologies The issue of equitable and fair
1 MAIN FINDINGS/OBSERVATIONS FROM SESA CASE STUDY FIELD WORK Case Location/ community Benefits/Values Drivers Causes Potential REDD+ Strategy Options likely to be applicable Other Issues/Questions arising Lofa-Zigida Cultural heritage and sustenance Income and livelihood security including food, NTFP, ecosystem services Domestic energy supply for cooking, heating, preservation Shifting cultivation Commercial hunting Chainsaw milling population growth and demand for food, energy and income Poverty [limited choices or availability of viable non-forest resources and livelihoods options] arrived migrant husbands clearing forest to establish ‘first- comer’ use rights Lack of coordinated land use planning Family planning – to ensure sustainable population growth Integrated farming systems e.g. Agroforestry systems and component technologies. Renewable energy e.g. mini-hydro, solar PV on and reinforce local systems for regulating hunting Livestock and fish farming to limit local demand for bush meat and serve urban demands Land use planning Livelihood and support for non-farm income generating activities (NTFP, handicrafts, small businesses, skills training) Gender sensitive direct cash payment for conservation Build capacity for leadership skills and natural resource management and governance. Unless there is local interest in conservation efforts, outside intervention unlikely to succeed. Need to enlist local support for forest management and conservation through support for initiatives that enable communities share conservation benefits Competing priorities between community livelihood needs and national conservation plans. Equitable and fair benefit sharing mechanism (community capacity to manage benefits, administrative and management framework for direct cash payment to communities) Past interventions focused on subsistence/ livelihood; new options/ new approaches needed Nimba- Gbarpa Cultural heritage and sustenance Shifting cultivation Presence of scale mining concession and Integrated farming systems e.g. Agroforestry systems and component technologies Comments above apply. The issue of equitable and fair
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