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REDD in Cross River, Nigeria: “Property rights, militarised protectionism, and carbonised exclusion”

Posted on 20 January 201720 May 2020

A recent paper published in Geoforum focusses on REDD, property rights and resource control. The paper, “A political ecology of REDD+: Property rights, militarised protectionism, and carbonised exclusion in Cross River”, is written by Adeniyi P. Asiyanbi of Kings College London and the School of Oriental and African Studies.

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Governor Ayade’s contradictions on REDD in Cross River State, Nigeria

Posted on 30 August 20163 December 2020

This week, Benedict Bengioushuye Ayade, the governor of Nigeria’s Cross River State, will be in Guadalajara, Mexico taking part in the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force Annual Meeting. The aim of the GCF is to link states and provinces running REDD programmes with carbon markets in the rich countries.

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Stop the construction of the Cross River State super highway!

Posted on 1 March 2016

Cross River State in the southeast of Nigeria has 50% of Nigeria’s remaining forests. Cross River State is the pilot REDD state for Nigeria and the state is a member of the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force, set up by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2008.

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Rio Branco Declaration: Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force states and provinces “have received very little financial support”

Posted on 5 September 201420 September 2019

Governors from 22 states have signed the Rio Branco Declaration, committing to reduce deforestation by 80% by 2020. If they receive a guarantee of “adequate, sufficient, and long‐term performance‐based funding”, that is.

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The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil fails to uphold workers’ rights and indigenous peoples’ rights

Posted on 20 November 20135 August 2015

Earlier this month, two meetings took place, both focussing on oil palm plantations. The first was a meeting of communities and civil society and took place in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. The second was the 11th meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia.

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