Tackling Deforestation Through A Jurisdictional Approach: Lessons From The Field

The document examines 'jurisdictional approaches' to deforestation, which align governments, businesses, and NGOs around shared conservation and sustainable development goals. Based on a workshop of practitioners from five initiatives, it identifies key success factors including political leadership, participatory design, and sustainable financing. It highlights the challenge of aligning short-term corporate and government expectations with the long-term systemic change required for landscape-scale forest loss reduction.

• Successful jurisdictional approaches rely on several critical pillars: political leadership that is resilient to change, inclusive participatory design from the start, and a diversified strategy for sustainable financing that aligns specific needs with financial offerings.
• Private sector engagement is essential due to the influence of market forces on land use, yet companies have historically preferred easily measurable, short-term individual impacts over the longer-term, harder-to-attribute metrics of jurisdictional success.
• Jurisdictional initiatives are viewed as complements to other strategies rather than replacements, focusing on building governance and scaling improved practices to reduce forest loss at landscape scales, though they require careful management of expectations regarding the time needed for results.
• The document details five specific place-based case studies: Mato Grosso (Brazil) focusing on the Forest Code and rural development; Liberia focusing on oil palm outgrower schemes and Production Protection Agreements; Ghana's Cocoa-Forest REDD+ Programme leveraging climate finance; Acre (Brazil) using economic zoning and incentives for environmental services; and Colombia's Orinoquia program focusing on land use planning and climate-smart agriculture.

APA

Fishman, A., Oliveira, E., & Gamble, L. (2017). Tackling Deforestation Through A Jurisdictional Approach: Lessons From The Field. WWF International. https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/142/7ak0me71ah_wwf_ja_brasilia_final_exec_sum_w_cover.pdf

Chicago

Fishman, Akiva, Edegar Oliveira, and Lloyd Gamble. Tackling Deforestation Through A Jurisdictional Approach: Lessons From The Field. WWF International, 2017. https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/142/7ak0me71ah_wwf_ja_brasilia_final_exec_sum_w_cover.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{fishman2017tackling, author = {Fishman, Akiva and Oliveira, Edegar and Gamble, Lloyd}, title = {{Tackling Deforestation Through A Jurisdictional Approach: Lessons From The Field}}, institution = {WWF International}, year = {2017}, month = sep, url = {https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/142/7ak0me71ah_wwf_ja_brasilia_final_exec_sum_w_cover.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }