Can “fragile states” decide to reduce their deforestation? The inappropriate use of the theory of incentives with respect to the REDD mechanism

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Estimating the world's potentially available cropland using a bottom-up approach (2013, background): “Increases in both human population and per capita consumption of material goods have increased demand for commodities produced from the land (Lambin and Meyfroidt, 2011).”
Problematizing REDD+ as an experiment in payments for ecosystem services (2012, background): “This shows that most developing countries must deal with multiple governance challenges before having any real chances of success in REDD+ based mitigation, such as dealing with contradictory policy incentives, changing tenure regimes and markets conducive to deforestation, and tackling corruption p”
Envisioning REDD+ in a post‐Paris era: between evolving expectations and current practice (2017, background): “Doing this effectively and equitably, however, remains a challenge, particularly for poorer countries where governance is weak, corruption often prevalent and enforcement feeble.(10,58,70,71) REDD+ can therefore also be seen as a large-scale governance experiment or an attempt at state building in t”