7) Discussing the potentials of a cultural approach to REDD+
7.2 Potential for a cultural approach to REDD+ on the local level
7.2.3 Is a cultural approach to REDD+ enough on the local level?
7.2.3 Is a cultural approach to REDD+ enough on the local level?
As mentioned, villagers expressed great value attached to the standing forest for very different reasons, which imply that their incentives for protecting the forest is complex. It
soon become obvious that the villagers in Ipetí‐Emberá see the forest as their livelihood with all the cultural, traditional and social factors this includes, which creates incentives to protect the forest. This indicate that a cultural approach to REDD+ has a potential in Ipetí‐
Emberá by for example
supporting indigenous peoples in being recognised through self‐determination, rights to their land and forest resources and support for their traditional political structures. But it also seems as if the cultural and traditional incentives do not always have much importance
against economic incentives that can generate income for an easier life46, with more material prosperity and economic security with a gas cooker, electricity, refined sugar, cattle ranging etc. Therefore, one can argue that neither cultural incentives nor economic incentives on their own can solve the issue of deforestation and forest degradation in communities threatened by deforestation. Both a cultural and an economical approach to behaviour are important to include when analysing what REDD+ could provide in order to promote sustainable forest management. This is in line with the certainty of the answers when we asked the villagers about their hopes and worries regarding both the existing local REDD+ project and potential
46 This description of their life was used several times by the villagers. They expressed that life today is easier but not necessarily better than before
Illustration 27: Picture of villagers in their field in the forest planting trees
new ones. The villagers’ expressed a hope for a potential win‐win situation, where REDD+
could be a solution both to protect the forest and to support the prosperity of their livelihoods. One could argue that there could be a potential synergy between economic development in the community and forest protection. REDD+ could generate economic
possibilities that support the cosmovision, tradition, culture and knowledge of the community in favour of protecting the standing forest and by that not push the villagers into generating income from cutting down the forest. However, on the other hand, based on the examples from Ipetí‐Emberá it is also evident that some villagers in the community most likely would not rely much on the cosmovision, tradition, culture and knowledge in order to develop REDD+ actions. Instead they would focus on the income generating activities of REDD+, even though these income generation activities would include cutting down the standing forest.
7.3 Conclusion
All in all this discussion shows that a cultural approach to REDD+ is important both on the national and the local level, but that it cannot stand‐alone as economic incentives are also important among indigenous people. The cultural approach has the potential to drive cooperation between stakeholders and to create a political framework that support indigenous local stakeholders in maintaining their cosmovison, traditions and culture in favour of forest protection. However, indigenous peoples also call for economic resources to be part of the REDD+ negotiations and on the local level as new developments are happening towards a dependency on income, which also dictate the behaviour of the indigenous peoples and indicate that the cultural approach to REDD+ cannot stand‐alone.
8 Conclusion
REDD+ is a programme initiated by the UNFCCC that aims at creating positive incentives in developing countries in order to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.
This encourages a discussion about what behavioural approach to REDD+ can ensure the aim of REDD+ through sustainable forest management: a restrictive, an economic or a cultural approach.
Based on theoretical and empirical perspectives and arguments we have chosen a cultural approach as the focus of analysis for this thesis.
We have therefore analysed the challenges that a cultural approach to REDD+ meets in the context of indigenous peoples in Panama, both on the national and the local level. To do this we have developed an Ideal Bottom‐up Model for REDD+ that is to be implemented in the REDD+ readiness phase in order to ensure indigenous peoples’ involvement. It consists of the three components: An early consultation process, Clarifying the legal framework and A system for ensuring participation. Based on empirical findings we can conclude that the main
challenges to a cultural approach to REDD+ in Panama are: a) Different understandings of REDD+ concepts and issues, b) Challenges with political structures and decision‐making arrangements and c) Mistrust between stakeholders. These challenges jeopardise the
participation of indigenous people and indigenous peoples rights to land, forest resources and cultural integrity. Among other things, this could mean that indigenous peoples cosmovision, traditions, culture and knowledge that could act in favour of sustainable forest management will not contribute to REDD+. Moreover, there is a risk that their forested land will not be included in REDD+ and that it could be invaded by outsiders to carry out activities that could drive deforestation and forest degradation. A last consequence is that it could jeopardise the opportunity for creating face‐to‐face communication and the bridging of relations, both on the national and local level that could support cooperation on how to establish sustainable forest management through REDD+. Therefore, these challenges can be seen as indirect drivers of deforestation. This indicates that a cultural approach to REDD+ is important to the success of REDD+.
However, the question is if a cultural approach to REDD+ in itself can prevent deforestation and forest degradation through sustainable forest management on the national and the local level? Based on our empirical findings we will conclude that the cultural approach to REDD+
is important for the implementation both on the national and the local level, as it encourage cooperation between stakeholders and a political framework that support both national and local indigenous stakeholders in maintaining their cosmovision, traditions, culture and knowledge in favour of forest protection. However the cultural approach to REDD+ cannot stand alone, as we also found indications that economic incentives drive indigenous peoples’
behaviour as well. On the national level indigenous stakeholders call for economic resources to carry out activities and participate in REDD+ and for economic benefits from REDD+. On the local level we saw indications that cultural incentives do not always or for all villagers have much importance compared to economic incentives, as indigenous people are becoming more dependent on income.
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