Land: Man and Forests - An Evaluation of Management Strategies for Reduced Deforestation and Forest Degradation, 2016

"Land: Man and Forests - An Evaluation of Management Strategies for Reduced Deforestation and Forest Degradation, 2016" has focused at evaluating the (potential) success of a set of REDD+ pilot projects, first of all in Brazil and Tanzania. The pilots were initiated to gain experience about how to organize REDD+ at local level to ensure reduced emissions from deforestation in the best way possible. The project has been focused at undertaking a so-called 'before-after-control-impact (BACI)' type of study. Setting up a REDD+ pilot is foremost about changing the governance/management regime for land including also clarification of property rights, creating systems for compensation (lost livelihoods) and for developing new livelihoods. Aimed at changed use of forest land, it therefore involved quite a profound set of institutional changes that were moreover initiated from outside. The project has documented these changes as well as estimated effects on livelihoods as well as carbon storage.

The five data sets include household-level data that cover the livelihood situation in 2010 and 2015/16, and price data. Livelihood data describes all incomes per. household - from sales and production for own consumption as well as 'other income'. They also include information about capital per household and institutional conditions. Furthermore, these data sets contain information about attitudes towards REDD+. Price data covers prices for sales to the nearest market for all products that the household produces.