Landscape approaches: The place of agroforestry, afforestation and reforestation in REDD+
The event is organized by the World Agroforestry Centre. For more info, please visit the website of the event.
Global climate policy has so far segregated mitigation and adaptation with separate approaches for agriculture and forestry based on historical institutional divides. In developing countries, the reality is populated landscapes where forests and farmland overlap and intersect. This learning event will present case studies that focus on high carbon stock development pathways without segregated policies at international, national and local levels. Organized in conjunction with the International Tropical Timber Organization involving panelists from IUCN and IITA.
The event is organized by the World Agroforestry Centre. For more info, please visit the website of the event.
Global climate policy has so far segregated mitigation and adaptation as distinct issues, and followed separate approaches for agriculture and forestry, based on historical institutional divides. Yet extensive areas in developing countries are landscapes with considerable tree cover, forest margins and transitions to farm-based forestry. And a large proportion of the rural population live in such landscapes. Evidence-based policy development can do well by starting from the reality of rural livelihoods and actual carbon stock dynamics in living landscapes, and find ways to develop high carbon stock development pathways. This Discussion Forum will present several case studies on how more integrated approaches can help decision makers avoid the pitfalls of segregated policies at international, national and local levels
Key questions
- How can agroforestry, afforestation and reforestation contribute to emission reductions through REDD+?
- Under what conditions and in what ways can landscape approaches enable emission reductions while promoting sustainable development?
- What policies and incentives are needed to promote effective landscape approaches?
- What are the key knowledge gaps?
Moderator
Anthony Simons, Director General, World Agroforestry Centre
Keynote speakers
Landscape approaches: The place of agroforestry, afforestation and reforestation in REDD+: An overview
Peter A. Minang, World Agroforestry Centre and ASB Partnership
Panellists
- Carole Saint Laurent, Senior Forest Policy Advisor, International Union for the Conservation of Nature; Coordinator of the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration
- Valentina Robiglio, Scientist, International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Yaoundé, Cameroon
- Michael Dutschke, Chair, Global Conservation Standard
- Manoel Sobral Filho, Former Executive Director, ITTO
Contact
World Agroforestry Centre, Henry Neufeldt, H [dot] Neufeldt [at] cgiar [dot] org