Vijay Ramprasad

Whose Rules? Which Forest? Why community rule-making predicts carbon on average but subsistence at the tail, and what that means for restoration finance

Restoration finance is learning to reward communities that make their own forest rules, and the evidence backs it: across 314 forest commons in 15 tropical countries, local rule-making is among the most consistent predictors of good outcomes (Fischer et al. 2023). That evidence i...