On the way to restore Guatemala’s degraded lands: Creating governance conditions

Ebal Sales, Ogden Rodas, Oscar Valenzuela, Anique Hillbrand and César Sabogal

World Development Perspectives, 2016, vol. 4, issue C, 16-18

Abstract: Guatemala is a megadiverse country but its ecosystems have been constantly threatened by stress factors. During the 1991–2001 period, the country experienced a forest loss of 93,127ha/year. This situation prompted the Government to set a target to restore 1.2millionha of degraded land by 2045 and approved in 2015 a National Strategy for Forest Landscape Restoration. Findings show that the combination of a platform for dialogue and a legal framework (PROBOSQUE Law) to support restoration work on the ground has proved to be very important for the implementation of the National Strategy. Another key factor was the three-level approach that combined implementation activities at national, regional and local levels.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2016.11.010

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