Carbon markets in Africa and their implications for land rights: Literature review and annotated bibliography
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2024
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Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)
Abstract
Market-based strategies for climate change mitigation are often presented as win-win solutions by emphasising the supposed ‘synergies’ that are established between carbon investors and users of natural resources. All too often, however, the impacts of carbon markets on social relations of production are underestimated. This paper argues that ensuring the development of effective climate change responses requires an understanding of the complex political economy of divergent and even competing interests between users and rights-holders of natural resources, local traditional authorities, the state, and transnational institutions. Ensuring resilient and sustainable land tenure security in the context of climate change, therefore, requires the ability to understand, co-ordinate and negotiate the interplay between a mosaic of diverse land uses and livelihood activities as they interact in a given politically and biophysically constituted territory designated for carbon trade.
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Market-based strategies, Climate change mitigation, Carbon investors, Climate change responses, Carbon trade
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Hakizimana, C. 2024. “Carbon Markets in Africa and their implications for land rights: Literature review and annotated bibliography.” Working Paper 66. Cape Town: Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.