Presentation delivered at the CIALCA international conference 'Challenges and Opportunities to the agricultural intensification of the humid highland systems of sub-Saharan Africa'. Kigali, Rwanda, October 24-27 2011.
Mitigation strategy and the REDD: Application of the
GLOBIOM model to the Congo Basin region
Presented by Aline Mosnier at the AGRODEP Workshop on Analytical Tools for Climate Change Analysis
June 6-7, 2011 • Dakar, Senegal
For more information on the workshop or to see the latest version of this presentation visit: http://www.agrodep.org/first-annual-workshop
1) Indonesia has a total forest land area of 130.68 million hectares as of April 2011, with 222.452 km of boundaries demarcated and 14.24 million hectares officially gazetted.
2) As of April 2011, conservation forests make up 25% of forest land, protection forests 22%, production forests 19%, limited production forests 14%, and conversion forests 20%.
3) As of 2009, primary forests account for 29% of forest cover, secondary forests 30%, plantation forests 2%, and non-forested forest land 6%, with 33% forested non-forest land.
The document summarizes Selangor's experience rehabilitating the degraded Raja Musa Forest Reserve peat swamp forest. Key actions included evacuating illegal settlers, blocking drainage canals to restore hydrology, replanting over 60 hectares with 80,000 trees. Challenges included weed infestation and preventing new encroachment. Future plans are to increase nursery capacity, enhance partnerships, and prevent further encroachment through increased enforcement and clear boundaries. The rehabilitation is considered a success with reduced fires and no new encroachment detected.
The REDD-ALERT project aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in tropical regions. The project studies the drivers of land use change and carbon stocks across forest conversions in four countries. It seeks to improve methods for accounting for greenhouse gas emissions from land use changes. Additionally, the project aims to identify viable policy options to address deforestation drivers and analyze the local impacts of potential international climate policies on emissions, land use, and livelihoods. The project involves 12 partner institutions and runs from 2010 to 2012.
Characterizing Forest Degradation and Carbon Biomass Assessment in Tropical ...CIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation, presented at the 36th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, explains the importance of peatlands to Indonesia as well as their contribution to carbon emissions. ALOS PALSAR data and above ground biomass assessments are used to map peatlands.
Characterizing Forest Degradation and Carbon Biomass Assessment in Tropical P...CIFOR-ICRAF
This document summarizes research using remote sensing to map tropical peatlands in Indonesia. It tested various classification approaches combining synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical sensor data to improve land cover mapping. Initial results found that combining SAR polarimetric features like alpha angle, entropy and anisotropy with reflectance from optical data improved classification of peatland types including primary swamp forest, secondary swamp forest and sparse forest. Further research is needed to upgrade technical capacity in Indonesia and integrate remote sensing methods with national forest monitoring systems.
Irrigation performance and seasonal changes under permanent raised beds on Ve...Joanna Hicks
The document summarizes research on irrigation performance and seasonal changes under permanent raised beds on Vertisol soil in Queensland, Australia. It discusses major agricultural challenges related to land degradation, water scarcity, and inefficient irrigation systems. The objectives are to evaluate irrigation performance of existing permanent raised bed farming systems and identify potential for lateral wetting front infiltration. Data was collected on two farms to measure advance curves, runoff, and soil moisture movement across beds. Results show advance times varied between irrigations due to soil conditions. Irrigation management strategies were found to impact current performance and potential water savings were identified.
Presentation of Andre Nassar for the "2nd Workshop on the Impact of New Technologies on the Sustainability of the Sugarcane/Bioethanol Production Cycle"
Apresentação de Marcos S. Buckeridge realizada no "2nd Workshop on the Impact of New Technologies on the Sustainability of the Sugarcane/Bioethanol Production Cycle"
Date / Data : Novr 11th - 12th 2009/
11 e 12 de novembro de 2009
Place / Local: CTBE, Campinas, Brazil
Event Website / Website do evento: http://www.bioetanol.org.br/workshop5
Mitigation strategy and the REDD: Application of the
GLOBIOM model to the Congo Basin region
Presented by Aline Mosnier at the AGRODEP Workshop on Analytical Tools for Climate Change Analysis
June 6-7, 2011 • Dakar, Senegal
For more information on the workshop or to see the latest version of this presentation visit: http://www.agrodep.org/first-annual-workshop
1) Indonesia has a total forest land area of 130.68 million hectares as of April 2011, with 222.452 km of boundaries demarcated and 14.24 million hectares officially gazetted.
2) As of April 2011, conservation forests make up 25% of forest land, protection forests 22%, production forests 19%, limited production forests 14%, and conversion forests 20%.
3) As of 2009, primary forests account for 29% of forest cover, secondary forests 30%, plantation forests 2%, and non-forested forest land 6%, with 33% forested non-forest land.
The document summarizes Selangor's experience rehabilitating the degraded Raja Musa Forest Reserve peat swamp forest. Key actions included evacuating illegal settlers, blocking drainage canals to restore hydrology, replanting over 60 hectares with 80,000 trees. Challenges included weed infestation and preventing new encroachment. Future plans are to increase nursery capacity, enhance partnerships, and prevent further encroachment through increased enforcement and clear boundaries. The rehabilitation is considered a success with reduced fires and no new encroachment detected.
The REDD-ALERT project aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in tropical regions. The project studies the drivers of land use change and carbon stocks across forest conversions in four countries. It seeks to improve methods for accounting for greenhouse gas emissions from land use changes. Additionally, the project aims to identify viable policy options to address deforestation drivers and analyze the local impacts of potential international climate policies on emissions, land use, and livelihoods. The project involves 12 partner institutions and runs from 2010 to 2012.
Characterizing Forest Degradation and Carbon Biomass Assessment in Tropical ...CIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation, presented at the 36th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, explains the importance of peatlands to Indonesia as well as their contribution to carbon emissions. ALOS PALSAR data and above ground biomass assessments are used to map peatlands.
Characterizing Forest Degradation and Carbon Biomass Assessment in Tropical P...CIFOR-ICRAF
This document summarizes research using remote sensing to map tropical peatlands in Indonesia. It tested various classification approaches combining synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical sensor data to improve land cover mapping. Initial results found that combining SAR polarimetric features like alpha angle, entropy and anisotropy with reflectance from optical data improved classification of peatland types including primary swamp forest, secondary swamp forest and sparse forest. Further research is needed to upgrade technical capacity in Indonesia and integrate remote sensing methods with national forest monitoring systems.
Irrigation performance and seasonal changes under permanent raised beds on Ve...Joanna Hicks
The document summarizes research on irrigation performance and seasonal changes under permanent raised beds on Vertisol soil in Queensland, Australia. It discusses major agricultural challenges related to land degradation, water scarcity, and inefficient irrigation systems. The objectives are to evaluate irrigation performance of existing permanent raised bed farming systems and identify potential for lateral wetting front infiltration. Data was collected on two farms to measure advance curves, runoff, and soil moisture movement across beds. Results show advance times varied between irrigations due to soil conditions. Irrigation management strategies were found to impact current performance and potential water savings were identified.
Presentation of Andre Nassar for the "2nd Workshop on the Impact of New Technologies on the Sustainability of the Sugarcane/Bioethanol Production Cycle"
Apresentação de Marcos S. Buckeridge realizada no "2nd Workshop on the Impact of New Technologies on the Sustainability of the Sugarcane/Bioethanol Production Cycle"
Date / Data : Novr 11th - 12th 2009/
11 e 12 de novembro de 2009
Place / Local: CTBE, Campinas, Brazil
Event Website / Website do evento: http://www.bioetanol.org.br/workshop5
The ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins: Benchmark Sites ExperienceCIFOR-ICRAF
The ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins (originally founded as Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn in 1994) is a global partnership of over 90 research institutions, universities, NGOs, community groups and farmer groups. ASB is currently focussed on reducing deforestation and emissions from land use change, including forestry and agriculture, while ensuring viable livelihoods and enhancing social and environmental co-benefits. This presentation gives an overview of the ASB benchmark sites and lessons learned from the process.
This presentation formed part of the CRP6 Sentinel Landscape planning workshop held on 30 September – 1 October 2011 at CIFOR’s headquarters in Bogor, Indonesia. Further information on CRP6 and Sentinel Landscapes can be accessed from http://www.cifor.org/crp6/ and http://www.cifor.org/fileadmin/subsites/crp/CRP6-Sentinel-Landscape-workplan_2011-2014.pdf respectively.
Peatland Development Challenges – A Case Study from Kampar Peninsula, Riau, I...GlobalEnvironmentCentre
This document summarizes a study of landscape changes on a peat dome in coastal Riau, Sumatra from 1995-2010. Key findings include:
1) Illegal logging from 2000-2009 resulted in extensive drainage through ditches that lowered water tables and caused significant peat subsidence and loss of forest biomass.
2) From 2003-2010, terrain models show mean subsidence of 0.17 meters over the study area, indicating a loss of around 20 tons of CO2 per hectare per year from oxidized peat soils.
3) Forest biomass monitoring plots from 2004-2011 show a continuing decline in biomass years after logging, with the largest trees most affected by
This document discusses land use changes and opportunities to reduce emissions in Indonesia. It provides information on:
1) Land cover maps from 1990, 2000, and 2005 to analyze land use change and carbon stock variations over time.
2) GHG emissions from land use change were mostly from 10 out of 33 provinces in Indonesia between 1990-2005.
3) Workshops with local stakeholders identified key drivers of land use change and dominant transitions in different regions to better understand regional heterogeneity.
4) A REDD quadrant framework was used to translate local development plans into land use configurations and analyze their impact on emissions to plan for low emissions development.
1) The document discusses three approaches to estimate national-level activity data on forest change using total land-use area with no conversion data, total land-use area with spatially explicit data including changes between categories, and conversion data from remote sensing.
2) It describes three tiers of emission factors - Tier 1 using default IPCC values, Tier 2 using country-specific factors, and Tier 3 using high-resolution models and measurements.
3) Tables and figures show examples of analyzing deforestation and degradation drivers by continent and how they change over phases of development.
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) requires better monitoring, measurement and verification (MRV) to assess carbon and non-CO2 greenhouse gases. With REDD likely to evolve into a whole landscape accounting approach which includes Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses (AFOLU), reliable and cost efficient MRV across complex landscapes is becoming increasingly important.
Experts from the World Agroforestry Centre present four case studies that showcase work on measuring carbon in complex landscapes and agro- ecosystems with trees: Western Kenya; the Peruvian Amazon; the peatlands of West Kalimantan, Indonesia and the Africa Soil Information Service project. There are also insights about choosing the right tools and methods for different contexts, ensuring measurements are accurate, statistically relevant, and can be scaled up.
Characteristics & efficient use of fertilizers by MUHAMMAD FAHAD ANSARI 12IE...fahadansari131
This document discusses fertilizer use efficiency. It defines different types of efficiency like recovery efficiency and agronomic efficiency. It discusses how efficiency is defined differently for nitrogen versus phosphorus and potassium. Maintaining optimum soil test levels for P and K is considered 100% efficient. The document also outlines opportunities to improve nitrogen efficiency through balanced nutrition, precision agriculture, and better fertilizer management practices. Improving efficiency will impact future fertilizer demand differently for nitrogen versus P and K.
Using MODIS Land-Use/Land-Cover Data and Hydrological Modeling for Estimating...Beniamino Murgante
Using MODIS Land-Use/Land-Cover Data and Hydrological Modeling for Estimating Nutrient Concentrations - Vladimir J. Alarcon, William McAnally, Gary Ervin, Christopher Brooks
Pontillas, J. Role of UNESCO's Man and Biosphere Reserves in Climate Change A...No to mining in Palawan
The document discusses the role of UNESCO's Man and Biosphere Reserves in climate change adaptation, using the example of Palawan Biosphere Reserve in the Philippines. It provides an overview of Palawan BR, including its characteristics, natural resources, population, and zoning system called ECAN. It describes challenges like deforestation, mining, and climate impacts. Finally, it discusses how ECAN zoning and the biosphere reserve concept can help balance environmental protection and sustainable development in Palawan.
Calculating changes in soil carbon in Japanese agricultural land by IPCC-tier...ExternalEvents
This presentation was presented during the 2 Parallel session on Theme 1, Monitoring, mapping, measuring, reporting and verification (MRV) of SOC, of the Global Symposium on Soil Organic Carbon that took place in Rome 21-23 March 2017. The presentation was made by Mr. Yasushito Shirato, from Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences - Japan, in FAO Hq, Rome
A comparative study of the physical and chemical properties of soils under di...Alexander Decker
The document analyzes and compares the physical and chemical properties of soils under three different vegetation types - swamp forest, secondary forest, and savanna - within the forest zone of Badagry, Nigeria. Significant differences were found between the soils, including higher sand and silt levels in the savanna and secondary forest soils compared to the swamp forest soils. The soils overall are sandy, slightly acidic, and low in nutrients. Maintaining crop yields will require judicious use of fertilizers due to the soils' poor chemical properties.
1. A landscape approach to reducing emissions from forestry and agriculture considers the full impacts of land use changes across an entire area, rather than focusing only on forests, and can provide benefits for climate change mitigation, adaptation, food security, and poverty alleviation.
2. Accounting only for reductions in deforestation under REDD excludes carbon stored in trees outside forests, agroforests, and peatlands. Considering entire landscapes through approaches like AFOLU provides more complete emission estimates and mitigation outcomes.
3. Case studies in Indonesia show that definitions of "forest" and what land use changes are included can significantly impact the results, with narrower definitions finding only a fraction of emissions compared to
The CA network for South East Asia (CANSEA). Jean Claude LegoupilJoanna Hicks
CANSEA was created in 2009 to facilitate cooperation and knowledge sharing around conservation agriculture practices in Southeast Asia by bringing together research institutions from Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The network aims to improve the efficiency of agricultural research, address issues of regional interest, and scale up conservation agriculture beyond small pilot areas. Through activities like workshops, training programs, and jointly developing research projects, CANSEA supports the exchange of experiences and results among its members.
Developing multi-scale strategies for farming communities to adapt to climate...ACIAR
Christian Roth, Thavone Inthavong, Seng Vang and ACCA team
Rice-based Systems Research: Regional Technical Workshop
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
Implication of land use change in the Mekong region for upland forests and th...CIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt provides information on the dynamics of land use change in the Mekong region and its implication for forest cover, livelihoods and biodiversity.
This document summarizes the TRANZFOR project, which aims to improve understanding of how forests and forestry can adapt to climate change. It discusses the project's work packages focusing on genomics, forest modeling, environmental services, risk assessment, and bioenergy. It provides examples of research conducted under each work package. It also outlines TRANZFOR's past work and potential future areas of research, such as forest mortality, carbon cycling, genetics by environment interactions, and native forest resilience.
Legal Frameworks for Sustainable Development: Legal Best Practices from the N...Bernhard J Smid
Presentation at the seminar "Legal Frameworks for Sustainable Development", held at FGV, during #Rioplus20. The seminar was held in partnership with the Centre for International Environmental Studies (CIES - The Graduate Institute, Genebra); Pace Law School (NY); the Brazilian American Institute for Law and the Environment (BAILE); the International Development Law Organization (IDLO); and the Center for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL).
Effectiveness Monitoring of Fuel Treatments in Southwest Yukonakfireconsortium
This webinar was presented by Brad Hawkes. For more information about this webinar, visit the Alaska Fire Science Consortium website at http://akfireconsortium.uaf.edu
Indufor ..forest intelligence ..remote sensing and gis .... bau with a bit mo...Nelson Gapare
Remote sensing and GIS tools are now essential for forest resource assessment and management due to decreased data costs and improved resolution. These tools can help address challenges of monitoring isolated or non-compliant activities cost-effectively. Indufor provides remote sensing services including resource monitoring, compliance assessment, and mapping for projects involving REDD+, carbon, and certification. Services typically cost $0.30-0.40 per hectare and provide automated detection of changes like harvesting or encroachment.
Jatropha Curcas Oil: Miracle Plant for Small Villages in IndiaZK8
The document discusses Jatropha curcas, a plant native to South America and Africa that can be used to produce biodiesel. It provides information on the history and development of biodiesel, current biodiesel production methods using various feedstocks around the world, and India's initiatives and plans for expanding Jatropha cultivation and biodiesel production. Key details include India's vision to make Jatropha a self-sustaining crop by 2012 through micro-missions focused on developing seed sources, cultivation techniques, and processing facilities. Cost analyses show that Jatropha cultivation can be economically viable and benefit rural economies.
Global coffee production will be significantly impacted by climate change. Species distribution modeling was used to predict shifts in suitable coffee growing zones, showing losses in Central America but potential gains in Asia. Without differentiation between Arabica and Robusta varieties, Robusta is predicted to dominate production. Integrated assessment modeling also indicates Brazil may lose suitable land while production could shift to new regions. Adaptation strategies like new varieties and agricultural practices will be needed to address changes and protect livelihoods dependent on coffee.
The ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins: Benchmark Sites ExperienceCIFOR-ICRAF
The ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins (originally founded as Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn in 1994) is a global partnership of over 90 research institutions, universities, NGOs, community groups and farmer groups. ASB is currently focussed on reducing deforestation and emissions from land use change, including forestry and agriculture, while ensuring viable livelihoods and enhancing social and environmental co-benefits. This presentation gives an overview of the ASB benchmark sites and lessons learned from the process.
This presentation formed part of the CRP6 Sentinel Landscape planning workshop held on 30 September – 1 October 2011 at CIFOR’s headquarters in Bogor, Indonesia. Further information on CRP6 and Sentinel Landscapes can be accessed from http://www.cifor.org/crp6/ and http://www.cifor.org/fileadmin/subsites/crp/CRP6-Sentinel-Landscape-workplan_2011-2014.pdf respectively.
Peatland Development Challenges – A Case Study from Kampar Peninsula, Riau, I...GlobalEnvironmentCentre
This document summarizes a study of landscape changes on a peat dome in coastal Riau, Sumatra from 1995-2010. Key findings include:
1) Illegal logging from 2000-2009 resulted in extensive drainage through ditches that lowered water tables and caused significant peat subsidence and loss of forest biomass.
2) From 2003-2010, terrain models show mean subsidence of 0.17 meters over the study area, indicating a loss of around 20 tons of CO2 per hectare per year from oxidized peat soils.
3) Forest biomass monitoring plots from 2004-2011 show a continuing decline in biomass years after logging, with the largest trees most affected by
This document discusses land use changes and opportunities to reduce emissions in Indonesia. It provides information on:
1) Land cover maps from 1990, 2000, and 2005 to analyze land use change and carbon stock variations over time.
2) GHG emissions from land use change were mostly from 10 out of 33 provinces in Indonesia between 1990-2005.
3) Workshops with local stakeholders identified key drivers of land use change and dominant transitions in different regions to better understand regional heterogeneity.
4) A REDD quadrant framework was used to translate local development plans into land use configurations and analyze their impact on emissions to plan for low emissions development.
1) The document discusses three approaches to estimate national-level activity data on forest change using total land-use area with no conversion data, total land-use area with spatially explicit data including changes between categories, and conversion data from remote sensing.
2) It describes three tiers of emission factors - Tier 1 using default IPCC values, Tier 2 using country-specific factors, and Tier 3 using high-resolution models and measurements.
3) Tables and figures show examples of analyzing deforestation and degradation drivers by continent and how they change over phases of development.
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) requires better monitoring, measurement and verification (MRV) to assess carbon and non-CO2 greenhouse gases. With REDD likely to evolve into a whole landscape accounting approach which includes Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses (AFOLU), reliable and cost efficient MRV across complex landscapes is becoming increasingly important.
Experts from the World Agroforestry Centre present four case studies that showcase work on measuring carbon in complex landscapes and agro- ecosystems with trees: Western Kenya; the Peruvian Amazon; the peatlands of West Kalimantan, Indonesia and the Africa Soil Information Service project. There are also insights about choosing the right tools and methods for different contexts, ensuring measurements are accurate, statistically relevant, and can be scaled up.
Characteristics & efficient use of fertilizers by MUHAMMAD FAHAD ANSARI 12IE...fahadansari131
This document discusses fertilizer use efficiency. It defines different types of efficiency like recovery efficiency and agronomic efficiency. It discusses how efficiency is defined differently for nitrogen versus phosphorus and potassium. Maintaining optimum soil test levels for P and K is considered 100% efficient. The document also outlines opportunities to improve nitrogen efficiency through balanced nutrition, precision agriculture, and better fertilizer management practices. Improving efficiency will impact future fertilizer demand differently for nitrogen versus P and K.
Using MODIS Land-Use/Land-Cover Data and Hydrological Modeling for Estimating...Beniamino Murgante
Using MODIS Land-Use/Land-Cover Data and Hydrological Modeling for Estimating Nutrient Concentrations - Vladimir J. Alarcon, William McAnally, Gary Ervin, Christopher Brooks
Pontillas, J. Role of UNESCO's Man and Biosphere Reserves in Climate Change A...No to mining in Palawan
The document discusses the role of UNESCO's Man and Biosphere Reserves in climate change adaptation, using the example of Palawan Biosphere Reserve in the Philippines. It provides an overview of Palawan BR, including its characteristics, natural resources, population, and zoning system called ECAN. It describes challenges like deforestation, mining, and climate impacts. Finally, it discusses how ECAN zoning and the biosphere reserve concept can help balance environmental protection and sustainable development in Palawan.
Calculating changes in soil carbon in Japanese agricultural land by IPCC-tier...ExternalEvents
This presentation was presented during the 2 Parallel session on Theme 1, Monitoring, mapping, measuring, reporting and verification (MRV) of SOC, of the Global Symposium on Soil Organic Carbon that took place in Rome 21-23 March 2017. The presentation was made by Mr. Yasushito Shirato, from Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences - Japan, in FAO Hq, Rome
A comparative study of the physical and chemical properties of soils under di...Alexander Decker
The document analyzes and compares the physical and chemical properties of soils under three different vegetation types - swamp forest, secondary forest, and savanna - within the forest zone of Badagry, Nigeria. Significant differences were found between the soils, including higher sand and silt levels in the savanna and secondary forest soils compared to the swamp forest soils. The soils overall are sandy, slightly acidic, and low in nutrients. Maintaining crop yields will require judicious use of fertilizers due to the soils' poor chemical properties.
1. A landscape approach to reducing emissions from forestry and agriculture considers the full impacts of land use changes across an entire area, rather than focusing only on forests, and can provide benefits for climate change mitigation, adaptation, food security, and poverty alleviation.
2. Accounting only for reductions in deforestation under REDD excludes carbon stored in trees outside forests, agroforests, and peatlands. Considering entire landscapes through approaches like AFOLU provides more complete emission estimates and mitigation outcomes.
3. Case studies in Indonesia show that definitions of "forest" and what land use changes are included can significantly impact the results, with narrower definitions finding only a fraction of emissions compared to
The CA network for South East Asia (CANSEA). Jean Claude LegoupilJoanna Hicks
CANSEA was created in 2009 to facilitate cooperation and knowledge sharing around conservation agriculture practices in Southeast Asia by bringing together research institutions from Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The network aims to improve the efficiency of agricultural research, address issues of regional interest, and scale up conservation agriculture beyond small pilot areas. Through activities like workshops, training programs, and jointly developing research projects, CANSEA supports the exchange of experiences and results among its members.
Developing multi-scale strategies for farming communities to adapt to climate...ACIAR
Christian Roth, Thavone Inthavong, Seng Vang and ACCA team
Rice-based Systems Research: Regional Technical Workshop
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
Implication of land use change in the Mekong region for upland forests and th...CIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt provides information on the dynamics of land use change in the Mekong region and its implication for forest cover, livelihoods and biodiversity.
This document summarizes the TRANZFOR project, which aims to improve understanding of how forests and forestry can adapt to climate change. It discusses the project's work packages focusing on genomics, forest modeling, environmental services, risk assessment, and bioenergy. It provides examples of research conducted under each work package. It also outlines TRANZFOR's past work and potential future areas of research, such as forest mortality, carbon cycling, genetics by environment interactions, and native forest resilience.
Legal Frameworks for Sustainable Development: Legal Best Practices from the N...Bernhard J Smid
Presentation at the seminar "Legal Frameworks for Sustainable Development", held at FGV, during #Rioplus20. The seminar was held in partnership with the Centre for International Environmental Studies (CIES - The Graduate Institute, Genebra); Pace Law School (NY); the Brazilian American Institute for Law and the Environment (BAILE); the International Development Law Organization (IDLO); and the Center for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL).
Effectiveness Monitoring of Fuel Treatments in Southwest Yukonakfireconsortium
This webinar was presented by Brad Hawkes. For more information about this webinar, visit the Alaska Fire Science Consortium website at http://akfireconsortium.uaf.edu
Indufor ..forest intelligence ..remote sensing and gis .... bau with a bit mo...Nelson Gapare
Remote sensing and GIS tools are now essential for forest resource assessment and management due to decreased data costs and improved resolution. These tools can help address challenges of monitoring isolated or non-compliant activities cost-effectively. Indufor provides remote sensing services including resource monitoring, compliance assessment, and mapping for projects involving REDD+, carbon, and certification. Services typically cost $0.30-0.40 per hectare and provide automated detection of changes like harvesting or encroachment.
Jatropha Curcas Oil: Miracle Plant for Small Villages in IndiaZK8
The document discusses Jatropha curcas, a plant native to South America and Africa that can be used to produce biodiesel. It provides information on the history and development of biodiesel, current biodiesel production methods using various feedstocks around the world, and India's initiatives and plans for expanding Jatropha cultivation and biodiesel production. Key details include India's vision to make Jatropha a self-sustaining crop by 2012 through micro-missions focused on developing seed sources, cultivation techniques, and processing facilities. Cost analyses show that Jatropha cultivation can be economically viable and benefit rural economies.
Global coffee production will be significantly impacted by climate change. Species distribution modeling was used to predict shifts in suitable coffee growing zones, showing losses in Central America but potential gains in Asia. Without differentiation between Arabica and Robusta varieties, Robusta is predicted to dominate production. Integrated assessment modeling also indicates Brazil may lose suitable land while production could shift to new regions. Adaptation strategies like new varieties and agricultural practices will be needed to address changes and protect livelihoods dependent on coffee.
The GLOBIOM model is a global partial equilibrium model that can be used to study land use and its impacts. It has 30 geographical regions modeled at varying spatial resolutions. It optimizes land allocation between major agricultural crops, livestock, forestry, and bioenergy to maximize economic surplus. Model outputs include production, trade, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions. The model was applied in a case study of the Congo Basin that examined scenarios of infrastructure development, productivity increases, and REDD policies on deforestation and its impacts.
This document discusses waste management strategies in Ghana and opportunities for biofuel production from municipal solid waste. It notes that Ghana currently recycles only 12% of its waste and dumps 88%. Two key projects are highlighted: 1) A Zoomlion/KNUST/DTU biofuel research project that converts waste to biogas and bioethanol. 2) An Accra compost plant project managed by Zoomlion to produce compost from organic waste. The document advocates for more investment in appropriate technologies, capacity building, and public-private partnerships to improve Ghana's waste management and biofuel potential from municipal solid waste.
SRI on the System of Rice Intensification in Mali -
Presented by Erika Styger, SRI Rice Director of Programs, Cornell University
to the IARD class at Cornell University, November 16, 2012
Bio-physical impact analysis of climate change with EPIC
Presented by Christine Heumesser at the AGRODEP Workshop on Analytical Tools for Climate Change Analysis
June 6-7, 2011 • Dakar, Senegal
For more information on the workshop or to see the latest version of this presentation visit: http://www.agrodep.org/first-annual-workshop
The document summarizes Tony Simons' speech on trees and forests for a healthy world by 2030. It discusses the challenges of population growth, inequality, and food insecurity. It presents paradigms for balancing ecological functioning, productivity, and income stability. It looks ahead to opportunities for knowledge transfer regarding agroforestry, forest definitions, and an integrated view of trees within and outside forests.
Poster65: Landscape management and the provision of soil ecosystem services i...CIAT
This study analyzed soil ecosystem services in three land use systems - conventional extensive, silvopastoral, and agroforestry - in the Colombian Amazonian piedmont, which has experienced deforestation and degradation. Soil samples were taken from each system and analyzed for physical, chemical, and biological properties. Results showed soils in conventional and silvopastoral systems had higher compaction, lower carbon storage, nutrients, and infiltration than agroforestry systems, due to poorer structure and biological activity. To avoid further degradation, the study recommends designing landscape management that protects ecosystem services and contributes to climate change mitigation in the Colombian Amazonian piedmont.
Mekong ARCC Climate Change and Hydrology Modeling Methods and ResultsMekong ARCC
At the Interim Results Workshop, the Modeling Team presented the climate change and hydrological modeling results for the LMB. The modeling team consists of Mr. Tarek Ketelsen, Mr. Jorma Koponen, Mr. Jeremy Carew-Reid, Mr. Simon Tilleard, Mr. Mai Ky Vinh, and Mr. To Quang Toan.
Early effect of no - tillage on land profitability, soil fertility and microb...Joanna Hicks
This study evaluated the early impacts of conservation agriculture (CA) compared to conventional agriculture (CV) on farmer income, soil fertility, and microbiota in Laos. Results after 3 seasons showed:
1) Similar production costs and yields but higher net income for CA due to byproduct sales.
2) Soil structure stability and carbon/nitrogen levels decreased under CV, with losses of 4Mg C/ha and 0.5Mg N/ha, but no losses under CA.
3) Bacterial/fungal biomass and diversity trended lower under CV compared to native pasture or CA.
The study concluded CV had negative early agro-environmental impacts while CA maintained soil health and
This document summarizes a study on the viability of growing shrub willow as a bioenergy buffer crop on agricultural fields in the US Midwest to improve sustainability. Key findings include that shrub willow buffers substantially improved nitrogen use efficiency, produced comparable biomass yields to unfertilized monocultures, improved water quality by reducing soil and nitrogen losses, and provided other ecosystem services. However, shrub willow did not provide positive net revenue due to high land rental costs. It could be more economically competitive than corn in marginal soils or when considering the monetary value of ecosystem services provided. While not financially viable on its own currently, integrating shrub willow buffers shows potential to improve the environmental sustainability of agroecos
The document discusses greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and land use in Wales from 2007. It presents various scenarios to reduce emissions by 2040 including: expanding woodlands; increasing renewable energy; improving farm productivity; reducing animal products in diet; and increasing crops and horticulture. The preferred scenario would reduce net emissions from 5,200 kt CO2e to around 2,000 kt CO2e by 2040 through these interventions while producing 3 TWh each of renewable heat and electricity, saving an additional 1,500-2,000 kt CO2e annually.
Basics of bioenergy and biofuels lecture. First given to ESP 10 class, 3/7/2013. Thanks to Steven Kaffka and Nathan Parker, who contributed some material.
24imo Forum di Medicina Vegetale - Bari, 13 dicembre 2012. Per saperne di più, leggi i reportage su Agronotizie:
• http://agronotizie.imagelinenetwork.com/difesa-e-diserbo/2012/12/20/la-medicina-vegetale-incontra-il-clima/17020
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Mosnier - Impacts of improved transportation infrastructure on agricultural sector in the Congo Basin
1. Impacts of improved transportation
infrastructure on agricultural sector in the Congo
Basin
A. Mosnier , P. Havlik, M.
Obersteiner, K. Aoki, E. Schmid
International Institute for Applied Systems
Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
University of Natural Resources and Applied
Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
International CIALCA Conference, Kigali, Rwanda, October 24-27
2. Introduction
Congo Basin
Cameroon
Congo Republic
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Central African Republic (CAR)
Gabon
Equatorial Guinea
3. Introduction
• Mainly subsistence agriculture
• 80% of the territory is
• Food production per capita has covered by forests =>
decreased over the last decade agriculture main driver
and net imports have increased of deforestation
4. Introduction
• 1/3 of increase in cereal production worldwide has been attributed to
fertilizer related factors
• Average fertilizer use in SSA ~8 kg/ha vs. 54 kg/ha in Latin America
and 80 kg/ha in South Asia.
• In the Congo Basin, only Cameroon is a significant user of fertilizer
• Problem of poor transportation infrastructures in the Congo Basin
Fertilizer use per arable land in 2008
(kg nutrients/ha)
Cameroon Congo DRC Gabon
Nitrogen 3.37 0.06 0.20 0.07
Phosphate 0.79 0.00 0.04 0.03
Potash 1.30 0.02 0.05 1.35
Total 5.45 0.09 0.29 1.45
Source: State of the forest 2008 and
FAOSTAT
5. Introduction
Literature highlights:
Positive impact of transportation infrastructure on
agriculture
Negative impact of transportation infrastructure on forest
cover
• What will be the effect of transportation infrastructure
development on agricultural sector in the Congo Basin?
10. Productivity change
EPIC Major outputs:
• Crop yields, Input Requirements, Environmental effects (e.g.
soil carbon, )
• For 18 crops (>75% of harvested area)
• And 4 management systems: High input, Low input,
Irrigated, Subsistence
In GLOBIOM, endogenous yield change through:
• Production increase in more (or less) fertile areas
• Change in management practices
11. Internal transportation costs
Compute time from a methodology
developed by Nelson (2006) using
several GIS datasets
Closest market:
for food crops = city above 300 000
inhabitants
for cash crops, timber and fertilizers= port
Transportation cost per simulation unit
(between 10x10 and 50x50km) :
Tc = constant + wage.hours + fuel price.
fuel consumption.distance + other
costs. distance
Parameters from literature review
(Teravaninthorn and Raballand, 2009;
ILO; GTZ)
13. Baseline
• Period 2000-2030, 10 year-steps (recursive dynamics)
• Demand exogenously driven:
– By GDP for processed wood
– By population for fuel wood
– By both for food = minimum calorie intake p.c. differentiated
between vegetable and animal calories (FAO, 2006a)
– Bioenergy use from POLES model (Russ et al., 2007) and
World Energy Outlook estimates (IEA-2006)
• Fixed crop mix per simulation unit
• No exogenous agricultural productivity growth
15. Scenarios
• The reduction of transportation costs affect:
1) Farm output prices
2) Fertilizer cost
• Scenarios to distinguish these different effects:
INFRA1 = channel 1) only
INFRA2 = channels 1) and 2)
DIFHI = increase of the productivity in the high input system
by 5% between 2020-2030)
17. Results
Baseline INFRA1 INFRA2 DIFHI
High Input and Irrigated 12.7% 12.7% 19.9% 57.1%
DRC
Subsistence- Low input 87.3% 87.3% 80.1% 42.9%
High Input and Irrigated 8.7% 9.2% 12.7% 48.3%
Congo Basin
Subsistence- Low input 91.3% 90.8% 87.3% 51.7%
18. Results
Relative land use change compared to the baseline level by 2030
INFRA1 INFRA2 DIFHI
Cropland 12.9% 17.4% 15.1%
DRC
Forests -4.2% -4.4% -3.9%
Congo Cropland 3.2% 4.7% 2.2%
Basin Forests -0.4% -0.4% 0.0%
Average annual C02 emissions from deforestation over 2020-2030 (in
MtCO2)
Baseline INFRA1 INFRA2 DIFHI
DRC 36 50 51 47
Congo
Basin 68 76 76 68
19. Conclusion
Transportation infrastructure improvement provides incentives:
to increase agricultural production
to switch to more intensive systems even if it remains
limited to 13% of the cropped area in the Congo Basin and
20% in the DRC by 2030
=> support to further increase efficiency of fertilizer use could
lead to significant intensification in the region
• However, it is most probably than intensification will not
impede deforestation increase, especially in dense forests
area of DRC
=> land tenure definition and implementation with delineation
of protected area/permanent forests area
20. Concluding remarks
• Transportation infrastructure could not necessarily lead to
transportation cost reduction
• Need for continuous efforts to maintain infrastructures in
good shape
• There are other non-cost factors that play an important role
for new technology adoption
• Other problems related to increase fertilizer use: higher
costs in the future, environmental sustainability,…
21. Thank you !
For more information :
www.globiom.org
Contact: mosnier@iiasa.ac.at
Editor's Notes
The difference between potential yield and observed yield is particularly high in the Congo Basin. This is particularly striking when comparing the yield of agricultural products in the Congo Basin with those in other tropical regions. In the Congo Basin, the last two decades were characterized by drastic cuts in governments’ budgets following the fall in commodity price at the end of the 80s and the debt crisis. From independence to the beginning of the 90s, the marketing of cash crops was subject to heavy state involvement through control of producer prices, distribution of free or largely subsidized fertilizers and fungicides, and exports of the products. The government discontinued the service with the liberalization of the marketing sector and many farmers abandoned their farms or replaced the trees by food crop (Duguma et al., 2008; MagnagnaNguema, 2005). The devaluation of the CFA currency in 1994 improved the competitiveness of exported products but at the same time increased the costs of imported inputs as seeds and fertilizers.
The ultimate decision depends on whether farmers believe they will make more money with the fertilizer than with alternative uses of the available cash. Alternatives: fattening an animal, nonfarm activities or land clearing for land expansion. Relative profitability is important. Commercial agriculture is a sine qua non for fertilizers. The few insights we have into what works in SSA come mainly from the cotton sector: vertically coordinated schemes where input, output and credit markets are linked. As concerns for environment increase, more attention to fertilizer’s environmental benefits and potential inconveniences once high levels of use are attained (soil acidification, water pollution) will be needed.