Guest Post: Brazil: spoiler or leader?

Dr. Maria Fernanda Gebara is a social and political scientist who has been working with climate and forests issues for more than 10 years.
Policy progress with REDD+ and the promise of performance-based payments: A qualitative comparative analysis of 13 countries
Maria Brockhaus, Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki, Jenniver Sehring, Monica Di Gregorio, Samuel Assembe-Mvondo, Andrea Babon, Melaku Bekele, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Dil Bahadur Kahtri, Hermann Kambire, Felicien Kengoum, Demetrius Kweka, Mary Menton, Moira Moeliono, Naya Sharma Paudel, Thuy Thu Pham, Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo, Almeida Sitoe, Sven Wunder, Mathurin Zida. CIFOR Working Paper no. 196. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia.
Taking stock of carbon rights in REDD+ candidate countries: Concept meets reality
Lasse Loft, Ashwin Ravikumar, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Thu Thuy Pham, Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo, Samuel Assembe, Jazmín Gonzales Tovar, Esther Mwangi, Krister Andersson. Forests 2015, 6(4), 1031-1060.
Coordination and cross-sectoral integration in REDD+: Experiences from seven countries
Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki, Maria Brockhaus, Bryan Bushley, Andrea Babon, Maria F Gebara, Felicien Kengoum, Thuy Thu Pham, Salla Rantala, Moira Moeliono, Bimo Dwisatrio, Cynthia Maharani. Climate Policy, 14(2), 167–186.
Multi-level policy dialogues, processes, and actions: Challenges and opportunities for national REDD+ safeguards measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV)
Pamela Jagger, Maria Brockhaus, Amy E. Duchelle, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Kathleen Lawlor, Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo, William D. Sunderlin Forests, v. 5, p. 2136-2162, 2014.
A policymix: Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity with poverty reduction in the Amazon
Peter H. May, Jorge Luis Vivan, João Andrade, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Pablo del Arco. International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth United Nations Development Programme, 2014.
The evolution of REDD+ social safeguards in Brazil, Indonesia and Tanzania
Pamela Jagger, Maria Brockhaus, Amy E Duchelle, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Kathleen Lawlor, Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo, William D Sunderlin. 2014.
Acre’s state system of incentives for environmental services (SISA)
Amy E Duchelle, Maron Greenleaf, Denyse Mello, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Tadeu Melo. In Sills, E. et al. (eds.) REDD+ on the ground. A case book of subnational initiatives across the globe. REDD+ on the ground. 1ed.: 2014, v. , p. 33-.
REDD+ on the ground: Unintended consequences in ‘a microcosm of the Amazon’

When Brazilian researcher Maria Fernanda Gebara thinks of her first visit to the Amazon municipality São Félix do Xingu in 2010, the first thing she remembers is the smoke.
REDD+ policy networks in Brazil: Constraints and opportunities for successful policy making
Maria Fernanda Gebara, Leandra Fatorelli, Peter May, Shaozeng Zhang. Ecology and Society, v. 19, p. 53, 2014.









