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Monitoring Change, Creating Outcomes: Forests, Trees and Agroforestry in Sentinel Landscapes Laura Snook and Judy Loo, Forest Genetic Resources Programme4 April 2013
Sentinel Landscapes stimulated rapid approval of program
Recognizing that:
• Trees are long-lived
• Can’t achieve impact during 3 year-projects
• Need for turning local to global perspectives through comparisons
• Current research efforts dispersed
Key concept in ‘Forests, Trees and Agroforestry’
Changing nature of forests over time Idealized to represent 5 stages
Forest transition curve
Purpose of Sentinel Landscapes
To measure changes and understand long-term trends in socio-economic and biophysical variables across the ‘forest transition curve’ globally across comparative sites.
Miombo woodland, Mozambique (J. Loo)
Objectives
1. Cross-regional comparison
2. Integration of biophysical & social data
3. Long-term presence (at least 10 years)
4. Co-location of research activities (share resources)
• Between Themes
• With partners
• With other CRPs
Challenges
Selection of a set of comparable landscapes for cross- regional comparisons
Integrating biophysical & socioeconomic data
Building/integrating data sets Integrating action research with
long term monitoring Ensuring/funding long-term
presence
Parkia fruits, Burkina Faso (B. Vinceti)
Opportunities for Bioversityin Sentinel Landscapes• Monitoring the status and trends of FGR
• Monitoring impact of interventions
• Developing long-term relationships with local Universities for capacity development outcomes
• Potential for long-term research (ie provenance or common garden experiments across gradients)
However, funding for research within SLs is not provided by the SL budget (except for predefined monitoring)
Mahogany tree, Maya Forest (J. Loo)
The Process of Selecting Sentinel Landscapes
1. Criteria (15): • Existing data • Scientists from >1 CRP6 components/themes•Variation along the forest transition curve•Etc.
2. Selection of a set of comparable landscapes for cross-regional comparisons
•SL workshop – June 2012, Nairobi•18 proposed candidate landscapes (3 from Bioversity)
Selected LandscapesTier 1:
6 regional landscapes (2 per region)2 cross-regional themes: (oil palm; tropical production forests)
Tier 2: 6 regional landscapes
Tier 1 Sentinel Landscapes
1. Nicaragua Honduras (“N-H SL”) + Maya Forest (?)
2. Western Amazon (MAP) Madre de Dios and Ucayali (Peru), Acre (Brazil) and Pando (Bolivia)
1. Mekong (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and Southwest China)
2. Borneo/Sumatra/Sulawesi
Latin America South East Asia
Tapping chicle in the Maya Forest (L. Snook) Indonesian island forest (L.Snook)
Tier 1 Sentinel Landscapes
1. South East Mali, South West Burkina Faso, Togo and Northern Ghana. (Sikasso-Bobo Dioulasso-Tamale)
2. Central Africa Humid Tropics Transect (Congo Basin)
1. Tropical Production Forests Observatory
2. Oil palm: Landscapes, market chains and investment flows
Africa Issue bound
Nigerien Parkland (L. Snook) Moabi tree with Baka man and Moabi log, Cameroon (L. Snook)
6 Tier 1 Regional Sentinel Landscapes
Boundaries to be decided
Tier 2 Sentinel LandscapesLatin America
1. Eastern Amazon
Asia
2. Western Ghats
3. Central Asia
Africa
4. Miombo Woodland
5. Afromontane
Issue bound
6. Mangroves?
Miombo woodland, Mozambique (L Snook)
Bioversity Contributions
Judy Loo member of Sentinel Landscapes Methods group; Laura Snook as Theme 2 Coordinator
Bioversity contributions to diversity monitoring:• 5% holdback proposal led by Judy Loo to
develop and test indicators of genetic diversity of trees that are informative, practical, understandable for monitoring trends
•FGR programe collecting data on tree species in Sentinel Landscapes
•Barbara Vinceti is focal point for biodiversity monitoring in West African landscape
•Marlene Elias is designing questions for baseline data collection on gender
Barbara Vinceti, Burkina Faso
Bioversity Staff in Sentinel Landscape Development• Barbara Vinceti in Western Africa• Julius Tieguhong and Paulus Maukonen in Congo Basin• Riina Jalonen in Sumatra/Borneo, Tropical Production Forest Observatory and Mekong• Evert Thomas in the Tropical Production Forest Observatory and Western Amazon• Laura Snook in Mesoamerican (Nicaragua-Honduras) Sentinel Landscape• Judy Loo leading Central Asia Tier II proposal development • Bhuwon Sthapit linked with Western Ghats Tier II proposal
Above, Paulus Maukonen, Cameroon; Below, Evert Thomas, Bolivia
Bioversity in research projects associated with Sentinel Landscapes
Led by Bioversity:•Forestry to enhance livelihoods and sustain forests in Mesoamerica (Maya forest linkages with Nicaragua-Honduras SL)•Threats to priority food tree species in Burkina Faso: drivers of resource losses and mitigation measures (with CIFOR & ICRAF; West African SL)•Beyond Timber: Reconciling the needs of the Logging Industry with those of forest-dependent people (with CIFOR; Congo Basin SL)
Led by ICRAF: •Ecosystem Services Cooperation: Across sentinel landscapes, the science of ecoagriculture and national green accounting (Fabrice DeClerk)
Above, logs in Cameroon (J. Tieguhong)Below, woman in Burkina Faso parkland (J.Loo)
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