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Uganda

UGANDA: Carbon Finance May Not Benefit Forest Communities

By Rosebell Kagumire
Uganda has lost more than two million hectares of forest since 1990, mostly converted to farmland by a growing population of smallholders. Carbon finance through the REDD programme is often presented as one way to arrest this destruction, but only if the benefits clearly translate to the grassroots.
Farmers are rapidly reforesting the Humbo plateau, thanks to carbon finance. Credit: WorldVision

ETHIOPIA: First Carbon Finance Spreads Green Over Highland

By Omer Redi
It has been decades since the people of the Humbo Woreda have been self-sufficient in food. A Clean Development Mechanism project - Ethiopia's first - is restoring the environment and sustaining livelihoods along with it.
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