Linking Forests and Food Production in the REDD+ Context

Kissinger, Gabrielle

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6719-5_4

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“…While many policy makers present at the climate-change negotiations in Doha (2012) highlighted the key role of agriculture in both adaptation and mitigation, and raised the possibility of including agricultural land uses in REDD+ (http://blog.ecoagriculture.org/2012/12/13/redd.cop18; FAO 2012a), little progress has been made. It is critical that a work program on mitigation and adaptation in agriculture be established within the UNFCCC process (Beddington et al 2012) and that the current ambiguity regarding agriculture's role within the context of REDD+ be resolved (Kissinger 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Climate‐Smart Landscapes: Opportunities and Challenges for Integrating Adaptation and Mitigation in Tropical Agriculture

Harvey

Chacón

Donatti

et al. 2013

Conservation Letters

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Addressing the global challenges of climate change, food security, and poverty alleviation requires enhancing the adaptive capacity and mitigation potential of agricultural landscapes across the tropics. However, adaptation and mitigation activities tend to be approached separately due to a variety of technical, political, financial, and socioeconomic constraints. Here, we demonstrate that many tropical agricultural systems can provide both mitigation and adaptation benefits if they are designed and managed appropriately and if the larger landscape context is considered. Many of the activities needed for adaptation and mitigation in tropical agricultural landscapes are the same needed for sustainable agriculture more generally, but thinking at the landscape scale opens a new dimension for achieving synergies. Intentional integration of adaptation and mitigation activities in agricultural landscapes offers significant benefits that go beyond the scope of climate change to food security, biodiversity conservation, and poverty alleviation. However, achieving these objectives will require transformative changes in current policies, institutional arrangements, and funding mechanisms to foster broad-scale adoption of climate-smart approaches in agricultural landscapes.

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Section: Recommendations For How To Overcome These Barriersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is critical that a work program on mitigation and adaptation in agriculture be established within the UNFCCC process (Beddington et al . ) and that the current ambiguity regarding agriculture's role within the context of REDD+ be resolved (Kissinger ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Climate‐Smart Landscapes: Opportunities and Challenges for Integrating Adaptation and Mitigation in Tropical Agriculture

Harvey

Chacón

Donatti

et al. 2013

Conservation Letters

315

210

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“…As well as the greenhouse gas emissions associated with agricultural practices, agriculture makes a further major contribution to greenhouse gas emissions as a driver of tropical deforestation, forest degradation, and land use change from grasslands and wetlands [36]. Co-learning between the forestry and agriculture sectors, for example recent CCAFS work drawing on the lessons of REDD+ [37,38], will be crucial to successful land-based mitigation that does not compromise livelihoods and food security. Fisheries [39] and livestock [40] are subject to similar tradeoffs and also benefit from holistic analysis within CCAFS.…”

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confidence: 99%

Climate change, agriculture and food security: a global partnership to link research and action for low-income agricultural producers and consumers

Vermeulen

Zougmoré

Wollenberg

et al. 2012

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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“…REDD+ initiatives explicitly highlight the benefits to rural forest dwellers, as avoiding deforestation is expected to ensure a supply of daily necessities, the protection of cultural and ethnic habitats, the provision of local environmental services, and, most importantly, the generation of income and employment. Thus, REDD+ can be seen as another attempt to achieve the twin goals of environmental protection and rural development (Kissinger 2011). In the Amazon, however, there are many regulations addressing rural dwellers and their resource-use practices.…”

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REDD+ for the poor or the poor for REDD+? About the limitations of environmental policies in the Amazon and the potential of achieving environmental goals through pro-poor policies

Pokorny¹,

Scholz²,

Jong³

2013

E&S

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ABSTRACT. Once again, the international community focuses on the preservation of Amazonian forests, in particular through a bundle of initiatives grouped under the term of REDD+. Initially focusing on reducing carbon emissions, the REDD+ process became increasingly linked with developmental goals that represent the primary interest of all Amazon countries. In consequence, REDD+ can be seen as another attempt to achieve the twin goals of environmental protection and rural development, and consequently, relies on the strategies and tools of past efforts. Against this background, we explore past experiences with key strategies for environmental protection and poverty alleviation in the Amazon to critically reflect about the potential of REDD+ to contribute to sustainable local development in the region. The analysis demonstrates that initiatives that pursued environmental goals mostly led to more restrictions and bureaucratic barriers to local forest users, while the prevailing approaches to promote rural dwellers showed ambivalent environmental outcomes. Reasons for these unsatisfactory results include the sectoral alignment of the measures and the poor coordination and lack of coherence with decisive policy areas. Most critically, the environmental and social initiatives themselves rely on the classic development approach widely disregarding smallholders' capacities to contribute to local development. The manifold pilot activities emerging under the new REDD+ framework tend to repeat these shortcomings, thereby further accelerating the replacement of local socio-productive schemes with unsustainable land uses. In view of the growing consensus about the ecological incompatibility, social limitations and economic risks of classic development, an alternative vision of development is needed, which more consciously takes into account the immense social and environmental potential of the region. Considering that REDD+ is still at the start, there might be possibilities to re-adjust the framework and thereby turn it into a real contribution to the sustainable development of rural Amazon.

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Linking Forests and Food Production in the REDD+ Context

Cited by 14 publications

References 7 publications

Climate‐Smart Landscapes: Opportunities and Challenges for Integrating Adaptation and Mitigation in Tropical Agriculture

Climate‐Smart Landscapes: Opportunities and Challenges for Integrating Adaptation and Mitigation in Tropical Agriculture

Climate change, agriculture and food security: a global partnership to link research and action for low-income agricultural producers and consumers

REDD+ for the poor or the poor for REDD+? About the limitations of environmental policies in the Amazon and the potential of achieving environmental goals through pro-poor policies

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