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Abstract
This systematic review and meta-analysis provide an updated and rigorous synthesis of causal evidence on the effectiveness of land tenure reforms and environmental certification in advancing forest conservation, livelihoods, and climate change mitigation in developing countries. Land tenure reforms had sufficient high-quality evidence to support a meta-analysis. The limited number of impact evaluations of certification schemes highlights an urgent need for methodologically robust studies in this area. The meta-analysis of land tenure reforms reveals no statistically significant average effect on deforestation rates, livelihoods, or carbon stock outcomes. That said, participatory forest management schemes and reforms that clarify communal or Indigenous rights appear to perform better than top-down titling interventions implemented in isolation. Despite the small number of studies in each outcome category, patterns of heterogeneity observed in the moderator analyses point to the importance of factors such as intervention scale, implementation actors, and colonial legal heritage. These dimensions may help explain variations in effectiveness and should be systematically integrated into future research
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Additional Information: | The suggested citation for this paper is: Doswald, Nathalie, Sasha Murat and Martin Prowse (2025). Effectiveness of certification and land tenure interventions to conserve forests: A systematic review. IEU learning paper (August). Songdo, South Korea: Independent Evaluation Unit, Green Climate Fund. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | sdg 13 - climate action,sdg 15 - life on land ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Oct 2025 14:30 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Oct 2025 14:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/100646 |
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