Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

Lima

25 May 2016

Global Achievements 2011-2014

Outputs

2014 Outputs

2012 2013 2014

Achieved 77.6 % 79.5 % 73.4 %

On-going 21.0 % 19.9 % 22.5 %

Dropped 1.4 % 0.6 % 4.2 %

± 230 scientists> 35 countries

• Around 10 M people benefiting of improved livelihoods thanks to FTA research

• More than 140 Mt CO2eq of avoided emissions in Latin America and the Congo Basin

• Around 15 M ha of forests and agroforests better and more sustainably managed in the tropics

• Policy influences and changes (IPCC guidelines, FLEGT-VPA, national policies in Indonesia, Peru, Cameroon…)

FTA outcomes & impacts today

• Spatial data and monitoring• Terra-I (http://www.terra-i.org/terra-i.html)

• ICRAF Landscape portal (http://landscapeportal.org/)

• CIFOR spatial data portal (http://www.cgiar-csi.org/portfolio-items/forests-of-borneo)

• Networks• Sentinel Landscapes (http://www1.cifor.org/sentinel-landscapes/home.html)

• Poverty and Environment Network (http://www1.cifor.org/pen)

• Tropical managed forests observatory (http://tmfo.org)

• Data repositories (Dataverse)• FTA (http://thedata.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/crp6/faces/StudyListingPage.xhtml?mode=1&collectionId=3524)

• CIFOR (http://data.cifor.org/dvn/)

• ICRAF (https://thedata.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/icraf)

Open Data Platforms

FTA in Latin America

Highlights from about 55 projects in our database

Western Amazon Sentinel Landscape

A platform for R&D, a framework for impact pathway based on co-learning processes through partnerships

global

regional

national

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tasks projects strategies

Spatial scale

Managementscale

Understand the complexity of land use change in connection to e.g.,

• Land use practices • Institutions• local ecologies• Rural-urban dynamics• Global market forces

A multiscale, multilevel research challenge

40 M ha

32% deforested

Terra-iNear-real time pan-tropical monitoring system for

vegetation loss detection

• Launched in 2014, applied as the official early warning system for land cover and land-use change in Peru.

• Terra-i data are also available in other platforms for public information.

• A core partner in Global Forest Watch (GFW).

Climate change mitigation and adaptation

Key cross-cutting issues in our region

Support to mitigation policy in Peru

• Scientific and technical backstopping to Ministry of Agriculture and multistakeholder dialogue facilitation

• iNAMAzonia: Formulation of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMA) for cash crops under a landscape approach

• Low Carbon and Resilient Coffee: Design of the COFFEE-NAMA and technological packages based on co-learning with the private sector

• Decision making in the cocoa sector on sustainable intensification and links to potential carbon markets

Multilevel governance and REDD+

• How REDD+ interacts with the multilevel politics of land and land use change including benefit sharing

• Participatory scenario building (tools to compute carbon stocks and to compare their values in landscapes with forests and other land uses)

• Politics involved in the design of Monitoring Reporting and Verification systems

San Martin

Ucayali

Madre de Dios

Tradeoffs between ecosystem service provision and climate coping

strategies

• Inform implementation of PES mechanisms

• Design of “green” public investment projects

• Integrate climate change and ecosystem services into regional forestry plans

• Enhance local knowledge to formulate gender sensitive strategies on adaptation

Contributions to a better understanding of impacts of climate change on trees

55 agroforestry species, including the most important timber, fruit and shade species in Central America

Forest Management and Restoration

Key areas where mitigation meets adaptation meets biodiversity meets livelihoods

The Tropical managed Forests Observatory(TmFO)

• Assessing trade-offs between production of goods (timber, NTFPs) and environmental service provision including C storage and biodiversity conservation

• Assesssing how natural forests respond to logging across continents in the context of climate change

Minimizing tradeoffs in multiple forest use

• Combined Brazil nut and low-intensity timber harvesting is possible

• Results inserted into new Technical Guidelines of the Peruvian Forest Service

Support to smallholder timber production

• Broadening the definition of agroforestry in regulations to accommodate smallholder practice into natural regeneration and fallow management

• Proposing modifications to include smallholders in the national forest plantation registry

• Feasibility of mechanisms granting usufructrights of smallholders settled in forest lands as a strategy to promote sustainable timber production and agroforestry

Decision support systems for restoration

Supporting Development of National Restoration Plans: Peru

• Piloting of Land Degradation Surveillance Framework methodology in Sentinel Landscape

– Specific land health indicators and their mapping for degradation diagnostics

– Basis for analysis of possible correlations among indicators and formulation of realistic restoration options

Supporting Development of National Restoration Plans

Colombia

Guidebook “Restoration through Agroforestry”

Operational guidance on fulfilling requirements of Brazilian Forest Code regarding Permanent Preservation Areas and Legal Reserves

Tree genetic resources

Fundamental in adaptation, mitigation, restoration

Seed sources and breeding strategies

Seed orchards of key native species now used as seed sources for reforestation with native species in Peru

Vegetative propagation and pilot clonal trials with national partners

Financial and genetic efficiency of early selection

Support to land-use planning

“Putting it all together”

• Implementation of Land Use Planning for Low Emission Development Strategy (LUWES) to estimate changes in carbon stocks due to changes in agricultural practices

• Implementation of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to examine the impact of changes in vegetation cover on water resources

• Economic impact assessment on crop replacement

Integrated land use planning for social, economic and environmental scenarios under climate change

Securing tenure rights for forest-dependent communities: Linking

science to policy

Increased awareness of the factors that constrain reforms with on-the-ground customary systems and stronger collective tenure rights in and around forests

Enhanced skills in tenure reform implementation by researchers, practitioners, and government agencies

Support to Forestry Education

Building the future

“Toward the modernization of forestry curricula in the American Tropics: a

modular approach”

• Undergraduate level

• Teaching materials for professors

• Topics not often taught in forestry programs

• Tools for active teaching

• Open-access

Last but not least: gender

• Tenure

• Governance

• Climate change

• Forest restoration

• Migration

• Value chains

• Corporate commitments

• FTA gender integration team mainstreams outreach and engagement to improve uptake and impact

• Quarterly newsletter “FTA Focus on Gender”

What’s next?

Forest/Tree cover transition

How did we fare?

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C “The [FTA] pre-proposal is well written, compelling and shows clear evidence of improvement on Phase I”

“The research program appears a more coherent whole“

• FTA project portfolio data harmonization

• Standard information fields

• Centralized location (FTA sharepoint)

• Equipping projects with tools, capacity, training

• Good practice design principles

• Theory of change

• Monitoring and Evaluation tools including

• Evidence capture

• Ex-ante, ex-post impact assessments

Improved management processes

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