OVERVIEW OF NEEDS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR FLR MONITORING

Drylands & Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) Monitoring Week

FAO Headquarters, Rome: 26-29 April, 2016

FOREST AND LANDSCAPE

RESTORATION PERSPECTIVES AND ONGOING ACTIVITIES

Tor-G. Vågen

World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

INDICATOR

S

Support multi-stakeholder negotiation

processes that are inclusive, integrated

and informed in planning land uses for sustainable

landscapes that can enhance livelihoods, economic growth

and maintain Ecosystem Services • Build common visions and understandings among working

groups of multiple stakeholders

• Collect and compile best available relevant data (e.g.

admin plans, land use/cover, biophysical factors,

demographic, socio-economic)

• Strengthen capacities in:

• quantifying ecosystem functions

• analyzing trade offs between conservation-development

• developing options and simulating scenarios

• negotiating best scenarios over ex-ante impact analysis

• implementation, monitoring and evaluation within the

existing policy framework

• Facilitate and negotiate public consultations and high level

discussions to mainstream plans into programs of local

government and identify other potential financing

mechanisms

• Align and engage with policy processes at the local and

national levels

Indonesia

• Understanding drivers

• Where are likely changes that will

happen based on the modeling of

these drivers?

• Changes in drivers can be

accommodated (e.g. new road, etc.).

• Projected conversion areas can be the

result of:

• Exogenous processes, perhaps

from regional or global models,

• Historical LULCC rates in each

PU,

• Forward-looking scenario, with

considering future needs for lands

to improve economics and social

performance

2005

2010

Driving factors

2025

Business As

Usual

Scenario

Scenario

development

Ex-ante impact:

Emission and biodiversity

Expansive agric.

scenario

Business As Usual

Scenario

Green Development

Scenario

2025

Agroforestry and Forestry in

Sulawesi (AgFor) Ultimate Outcome (Goal): Increase in equitable and

sustainable forestry and agroforestry-based incomes

among poor women and men in Sulawesi

Intermediate Outcomes (objectives):

•Improved livelihoods for smallholder farmers through

sustainable and gender-equitable use of agroforestry

and forestry systems.

•Increased involvement of women and men in

participatory governance of land use and natural

resources at sub-district and district levels.

•Improved, integrated management of landscapes

and ecosystems by local stakeholders through

enhanced capacity. Funding: Canadian Government, CIDA (now GAC, Global Affairs Canada

Enriching smallholder land

use • Guidelines published on nursery

management, vegetative propagation, and

smallholder cacao, rubber, coffee, black

pepper, timber, clove, durian and

Rambutan production systems.

• 13,655 individuals (34% women) trained in

agroforestry management at 461 events

• 13,956 individuals (35% women) trained in

nursery management at 912 events

• 155 group nurseries and 131 individual

nurseries produced 1,338,976 seedlings

• 366,137 individuals (52%) have benefited

from improved access to quality seedlings

• 491 farmer demonstration trials (FDTs)

established with 2417 farmers (36%

women)

• 35 rapid marketing appraisals conducted

with 565 farmers and traders (35% women)

identifying crops and value chains that hold

potential for smallholder farmers.

• Severe land degradation due to:

• cultural concept of land ownership

(limited land tenure for most

people)

• open grazing

• semiarid climate

• annual fires

• poor tree planting/management

skills

• limited access to germplasm

Indonesia Rural Economic Development on Sumba (IRED)

Rehabilitation action • Species identified that match the site,

family needs and market

opportunities

• Nursery training and establishment

(farmers produce their own

seedlings)

• Tree planting trials established and

evaluated (current little knowledge)

• Understory crop production

(vegetables & ginger) for home and

sale

Global network of Land Degradation Surveillance (LDSF) Sites

ANALYTIC

S

DIAGNOSTIC

S

Inherent

resilience is

high

Inherent

resilience is low

Rehabilitation of Arid Environments

Trust

Managing land to reduce soil erosion is CRITICAL!

Invasive species

(e.g. Prosopis

juliflora)

Severe

soil

erosion

Species diversity, dominance and functional traits

the Africa Tree Finder

Mouillo

t et a

l. (2013)

Facilitation

Thank you!

“The highest ideal of cure is rapid, gentle and

permanent restoration of health, or removal and

annihilation of the disease in its whole extent, in the

shortest, most reliable, and most harmless way, on

easily comprehensible principles.” –Dr. Samuel

Hahnemann