Scaling up REDD+ strategies in Bangladesh: a forest dependence study in the Chittagong Hill Tracts

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhancing forest carbon stocks (REDD+) have already been recognized as helping to mitigate global climate change and to conserve forest biodiversity as well as to improve rural livelihoods. Determining the nature and degree of the local peoples’ dependence on the forest can be an important aid to implementation of REDD+ in Bangladesh. The research aims to find out the nature and degree of forest dependence of the local peoples living in the tropical semi-evergreen forests in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh as well as to determine the tradeoffs between forest use and REDD+. The average revenue per household from selling forest products in the study area was 13,473 taka per…