landscape approache: defining a role and value proposition for the rainforest. by jeff hayward...
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How we can pursue landscape approaches strategically and systematically, where they make sense, for achieving greater mitigation outcomes, as well as related socio-economic and ecological co-benefits.TRANSCRIPT
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