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©2009 Rainforest Alliance
JUABESO-BIA LANDSCAPE
GHANAEnhancing carbon in Ghana’s cocoa landscapes by increasing productivity and restoring ecosystems
Jeffrey Hayward, April 16, 2014
Working in over 100 countries
GloballyCertified Forest Operations
> 75M ha (11.4M ha set aside for conservation) Certified Farms > 1M farmers 3 M ha
SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPES - VALUE CHAIN APPROACH
Training & support to producers
Auditing & Traceability
Corporate engagement
Marketing & Brand awareness
producers / processors buyers / exporters / importers distributors / brands / retailers / industry groups consumers
LAND USE PRACTICES BUSINESS PRACTICES CONSUMER BEHAVIOR
Capacity Building
& Technical
Assistance
Certification &
Sustainability Standards
Market development
&Corporate
engagement
Bia NationalPark
Krokosua Hills FR
“Globally Significant Biodiversity Area
Timber Concessions
GHANA: JUABESO – BIA LANDSCAPE
JUABESO – BIA LANDSCAPE: PROJECT OBJECTIVES
Farmers
• Enable smallholder farmers to practice climate-smart agriculture
• Restore ecosystems• Enhance remnant forests• Conserve nearby forests• Reduce GHG emissions• Small enterprise
development• Climate change education
Company
• Reputation• Income opportunities
from carbon markets• Value chain efficiencies:
• build resilient supply• break links between
cocoa and deforestation
• Reduce operational risks
• A learning exercise
- Supported by USAID, NORAD, Olam
CLIMATE SMART ACTIVITIES
Training & climate education• Best practices training to
support farmers to meet SAN standards
• Capacity building for farmers to achieve Climate Module verification
• “Lead-farmer” program establishment
• Adaptation plans developed at community and farm level to counter those impacts
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WHAT CAN COCOA FARMERS DO?
Maintain our Sacred grovesLeave shade trees on
our cocoa farms.
Grow other crops in addition to cocoa
Plant trees in places where we don’t farm.
Pruning of cocoaFertilizer application
PROJECT SITE & CERTIFIED FARMS
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2012: 833 farmers / 2,401 ha 2013: 1,256 farmers / 3,700 ha
2014 – 2018: 4,000 farmers
11,000 ha
C ACCOUNTING METHOD
• Initially, farm by farm plot approach
• Then, classification using satellite imagery– [World View 2m]– [RapidEye 5m]
• Ground truthing with data gathered in sampling plots established in the various land use types
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BENCHMARK CARBON STOCKS: STRATIFICATION
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Higher shade cocoa
Low/no shade cocoa
Agriculture/fallows
Open canopy forest
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CARBON STOCKS: STRATIFICATION
CCF = closed canopy forest
OCF = open canopy forest
HSC = high shade cocoa
LSC = low/no shade cocoa
OP = open, fallow
UR = urban
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OP CLS CHS OCF CCF0
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20
30
40
50
60
70
80
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38
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Carbon content of non-cocoa trees by Land Cover Classinterquartile interval (blue)
95% confidence interval (red)
Mean
Median
Land Cover Class
tC/ha n=19
n=70
n=37
n=25
n=37
OP - Open (fallow, fields) CLS - Low/no shade cocoaCHS - Higher shade cocoaOCF - Open Canopy ForestsCCF - Closed Canopy Forests
LANDSCAPE CARBON STOCKS: QUANTIFICATION
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2012: 833 farmers / 2,401 ha255,000 tons CO2e
2013: 1,256 farmers / 3,700 ha410,000 tons CO2e
2014 – 2018: 4,000 farmers
11,000 ha1.5+ M tons CO2e
CARBON PROJECT DESIGN
In Juabeso-Bia it helped to:• Encapsulate benefits and
best practices promoted• Creating baselines • Monitoring and evaluation
plans• Novel C accounting method
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CARBON PROJECT DESIGN
• Developed according to the CCB Standards
• Delivers credible climate, community and biodiversity benefits
• No VERs unless used with another standard such as VCS
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CLIMATE SMART ACTIVITIES
Reforestation• Degraded areas are
being reforested and sustainably managed for timber production
Diversification• Other livelihood
opportunities such as the rearing of grass cutters and bee keeping are being promoted
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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 3,700ha 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 selected teachers trained in climate education are 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 Ghana’s Forest Investment Plan, as
region is a priority, and also FCPF and ISFL
WHAT WE LEARNED
• Landscape C accounting = changes in C stocks can be assessed across all smallholder farmers
• No repeated plot measurements needed = reduced cost• Potential to quantify C sequestered = opportunity to engage in
insetting• Differentiation of cocoa system type = basis for management
advice with regards to stocking densities of shade trees• Continued improvement of farming practices through follow up
training = increased yields, improved livelihoods, better quality, enhanced resiliency
• Replicable in other landscapes = rejuvenation and rehabilitation in Cote de Ivoire
• Viable REDD+ pilot site = Help Ghanaian government achieve low carbon development, consistent with FCPF and ISFL
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