Primary goals

• The primary goal of this research is to understand the challenges and potential for developing effective incentivisation mechanisms – in the form of livelihoods – to engage people in large scale community-based reforestation. 

Key outcomes

• Analysing people’s decision-making to participate and sustain long-term engagement in reforestation programs: insights for improving the incentivisation mechanisms. 

Progress

This project commenced in June 2023 and is set to finalise by Feb 2026.

Lead researchers

• Milad Dehghani Pour
• Robert Fisher
• Robin Chazdon
• Dora Carias Vega

• Liz Sousa Ota
• John Herbohn

Project partners

• Project Tarsier
• Shell

Sustainable Development Goals

This project works towards these UN Sustainable Development Goals:

• SDG 13: Climate Action
• SDG 15: Life on Land