Our study of REDD and poverty is to focus on how REDD should be designed in order to minimise negative impacts on poor people. The first phase of the study has reviewed selected literatures on the connection between the forest and poor people, as well as more recently authored documents which specifically address the issue of REDD and the poor (including the four ‘key documents’ listed below). Our first outputs are an Inception Report summarizing our literature reviews and outlining workplans for 2010-11. Down load the report here.

The key documents reviewed in this report are:

Making REDD work for the poor. Peskett, L, Huberman, D, Bowen-Jones, E, Edwards, G and Brown, J, Poverty and Environment Partnership (PEP) Policy Brief, ODI, London, 2008

Moving Ahead with REDD: issues, options and implications. Angelsen, Arild, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia, 2008

Seeing REDD: Forests, Climate Change Mitigation and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Update for Poznań (UNFCCC COP 14). Griffiths, Tom, Forest Peoples Programme, 2008

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD): An Options Assessment Report. Angelsen, A., Brown, S., Loisel, C., Peskett, L., Streck, C., and Zarin, D. Prepared for the Government of Norway, Meridian Institute, 2009