Overcomingbarriers through
intergovernmentaldialogueon silvopastoral
systems in Latin America
Marta Suber
World Agroforestry
Latin Americaoffice

he role of silvopastoral systems in LA
ational climate agendas
Deforestation historically fueled by agricultural land expansion for livestock
SPS broadly recognized as fundamental practice to reduce emissions
Several countries seek to implement silvopastoral system for mitigation (i.e.
Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Colombia)
Several livestock NAMAs under design or implementation (i.e Colombia, Peru,
Costa Rica)
Just Brasil and Uruguay explicitly included SPS in the NDC (in 2006)

key aspects for Silvopastoral Systems
n Latin American countries
Agroforestry as source of wide range of products and environmental services
Constraints of different nature exist in recognizing and accounting
silvopastoral systems as climate action
 Silvopastoral systems for increase productivity to reduce pression on forest (46%
sectorial emissions from land use change activities)
 i.e technical knowledge and EF and AD lack prevents estimates for disaggregated
reports for IPCC 2006 categories
Rarely visible in GHG inventories
 a change is now possible and foreseen thanks to Remi and colleagues publication

… to overcome together common
difficulties by lookingat:
 Definitions and land use
categorization
 Reportingrequirements
 MRV progresses and AD& EF
availability
 Success stories
An extensive
network…
https://ccafs.cgiar.org/node/56861#.XRGhAehKjtU

…included > 30 activeparticipants
from:
 Publicsector
 Ministries representatives
 NAMA coordinators
 Livestockfederation (FEDEGAN)
 Nationaland international research
centers (INTA, CIPAV, EMBRAPA, ICRAF, CIAT,
CATIE, CIFOR)
 RedINGEI
 FAO, UNEP-DTU
An extensive
network…

…resulting in a decision-making tree

…and a roadmap to turn the invisible visible
address that:
Most of the countries lacks a legal
SPS definition, or are not adapted to
CC or when multiple not consistent
Other accountability schemes
(REDD+) could be compromised by a
new definition of SPS
A general lack of DA & EF
It was proposed to:
 Work jointly on a common
ecosystem-based definition valid for
CC
 Establish common guidelines for SPS
inclusion under other schemes
 Rely on RedINGEI and local initiatives
to establish/reinforce data
generation capacity across countries
and actors
 Consider the use of new IPCC values
for agroforestry

wo successful stories of ways forward
Costa Rica SIMOCUTE high level workshop:
Next activity:
SPS Activity Data generation in Colombia, Panama, Peru. A review of information
sources, data quality and available methodologies. Starting June 2019
“…it was really useful to us—we’ve already agreed on a follow-up workshop to
work on descriptors that we can use for Livestock NAMA and, under the same
MRV principles applicable also to agroforestry, expand to the Coffee NAMA too.”
Mauricio Chancón, leader of Low Emission Livestock Strategy and the
Livestock NAMA

Overcoming barriers through
ntergovernmental dialogue on
ilvopastoral systems in Latin America
Many thanks for your attention
Marta Suber: m.suber@cigar.org