LANDSCAPE APPROACHESDefining a role and value proposition for the Rainforest Alliance

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Jeff HaywardRainforest Alliance

5 Dec 2014, Lima COP20

WHY A KEY PART OF OUR STRATEGIES FOR

LIVELIHOODS OR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION?

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• Limitations of certification and production unit approaches to address

certain biodiversity & livelihood threats

• Achieve and document impacts beyond production unit boundaries

• Magnify our impacts by integrating across sectors and with new

partners

• Better address co-related and dependent issues such as REDD+,

zero deforestation, and climate adaptation

• We may not be able to achieve the needed mitigation from AFOLU if

we don’t find a way to work effectively at landscape scale

MODALITIES OF LANDSCAPE APPROACHES (RA)

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# Modality

1 “Adding on, expanding out” – reach beyond current core site based activities, including more issues, communities, partners.

2 “Destinations and landscapes” – combine agriculture, forestry, and tourism work in synergistic ways.

3 “Landscape management as CSR” – work with companies to reduce risks and help guide investments where they can have maximum benefit.

4 “Landscape sustainability metrics” – companies want to show impact at larger scale, and more efficiently

5 “New models for certification” – develop methods & systems to certify landscapes, not farms

6 “Business engagement in multi-stakeholder landscape initiatives” –Greater multi-functionality through land use planning, institutional and policy alignment, PPPs.

Bia

National

Park

Krokosua Hills

Forest Reserve

“Globally Significant

Biodiversity Area

Timber Concessions

FCCA-GHANA: JUABESO – BIA LANDSCAPE

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BENCHMARK CARBON STOCKS:

STRATIFICATION

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Higher shade

cocoa

Low/no shade cocoa

Agriculture/fallows

Open canopy forest

RESULTS TO DATE ..

• Over 2,000 farmers trained to date according to the SAN sustainability

standards and the additional climate criteria

• Reach of the project to date covers more than 3,700 ha in 36 communities

• Close to 100,000 shade tree seedlings have been planted

• Yield increase of 15-30% resulting in an average income increase of 25%

• Internal management systems developed

• 15 teachers trained and now running environment clubs in 12 junior high

schools

• Climate risks and impacts assessed at community and farm level and activities

to counter these are being put in place

• Sustainable trading relationship developed

• Project objectives align well with World Bank investments in Ghana: FIP, FCPF,

ISFL

CHALLENGES AND WAYS FORWARD

• Improving Governance, Administration – Strengthen existing governance

structures (community/cluster/landscape) to better support current and future

technical assistance and field implementation.

• Finding best entry point for capacity building - Use scalable training

platforms (lead farmers) and community organizational strengthening

(producer associations)

• Markets vs livelihoods/food security - Market-driven approach adds private

sector resources to donor-funding, should be diversified, bundled. Holistic

approach to identify alternative economic incentives to add value to

community incomes.

• Funding extension, technical assistance, over long term – private sector

risk, favorable capital conditions, micro-credit, government program targeting

• Payments for mitigation, landscape Carbon Accounting – methods to

estimate carbon across smallholdings without numerous field measurements,

reducing cost and replicable elsewhere.10

The Rainforest Alliance works to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods

by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behavior.

www.rainforest-alliance.org

www.sanstandards.org11