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Table T25: Observed or Potential Short- to Mid-Term Social Outcomes of Land-Based Carbon Projects
REDD (w/ strict restrictions)
REDD (w/ sustainable uses)
Improved forest
management
Plantations (large or
small)
Agroforestry
(communities/small
h ld )
Soil carbon/agriculture
FINANCIAL CAPITAL
OUTCOMES
(short to mid-term)
Increase in employment / increase in demand for labor (in tree planting, thinning, harvesting, or
monitoring, etc.) (albeit short-term)
Loss of employment and incomes (from agriculture, charcoal production, NTFP harvesting,
logging, and other restricted or substituted economic activities)
Positive outcome (+) ,or
Negative outcome (-)
Primary/direct outcome (1),
or Secondary/indirect (2)
+ 1
- 1
Increase in cash income from employment for individuals + 1
Increase in cash income from carbon payments to individuals + 1
Increase in income diversification (supplemental income) + 1
Increase in income from the sale of fruit and/or NTFPs + 1
Increase in income or new income from ecotourism + 1
Increase in income or new income from the sale of timber + 1
Increase in stability of income flow + 1
Subsidies to households for tree planting + 1
Debt cancellation (due to lump sum carbon payments to households) + 2
Increased availability of micro-credit (e.g. project fund, or community trust fund or rotating fund) + 1
Increase in income for community organizations/committees from carbon payments + 1
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