Can agroforestry win the heart' of peatland restora5on

agenda ?A"ekWidaya"

ICRAFSoutheastAsia

Land use-peatland induced hazards

Firehazards1997-8,2006-7,2015Transboundaryhazepollu"on:Indonesiaandneighboringcountries(Malaysia,Singapore,thePhilippines)

IndonesiaasthehighestCO2emiOerfromland-basedsector

(GFED4s,>www.globalfiredata.org

Economic damage of 1997/98 fires was estimated to be of the order of 20 billion USD (Varma, 2003)

www.aseanpeat.net

SoutheastAsia

(Wahyunto,etal,2014)

Indonesia:14.9M-20Mha

Major Drivers

Foodprovision1Mmegaricefieldprogramin1990sfailureintechnicali"esandmanagementlargesourceoffireinCKalimantan

PulpandpaperindustriesAcaciaplanta"onsCPOexports,food-cropcommodi"esOilpalmplanta"ons

Strategies, agenda and priori5es

IndonesiasPresidentJokoWidodoinspectspeatlandinKalimantan.Photograph:RomeoGacad/AFP/GeOyImages

We need a new Peatland Management Authority,

reporting directly to me

PeatlandRestora"onAgency'majorapproaches:- Peatlandrewe^ng

Canalblocking- Paludiculture

Regional(ASEAN): ASEANPeatlandManagementStrategies

ASEANAgreementonTransboundaryPollu"on

Indonesia??

How about agroforestry prac5ces on peatland ?

effec"vebuffersfromfires,shownbythelowincidenceoffiresinthearea(SakuntaladewiandWibowo,2016;Dewietal2015).

Whyagroforestonpeatlands: Whererewe^ngisnotimmediatelyfeasiblee.g.highsocialcost

Adap"vefarmingforpeatlandmi"ga"ngfirehazards:lowinputfarmingandmul"stratatomaintainhumidenvironment

Low-impactagriculture(ASEANStrategy)mi"ga"onofover-drainage

Mul"func"onali"es(RE:economyofproduc"onecology)

Localwisdomandknowledge

Wahyuntoetal,2014

MieHnnenetal,2016

Upscalability op5ons by/in context

WidayaJ,Tata,vanNoordwijk,(inpress)

Conclusions and Challenges (over opportuni5es)

Restora"onisnotonlyaboutplan"ngandreplan"ng,providingseedsandtechnology,tree-croppreference.

Policiesandregula"onreflec"nggood-willandabilityarecrucialChallenges:

Foragroforestitiss"llconsideredasplotandfarmlevelprac"ce;challengedforwideradop"onforpeatlandscapeandpeatlandrestora"on.

(endemic)tree-plantpromo"on:gapsonenablingpoliciesandregula"on,includingincen"vesanddisincen"vesdifficulttogaintrustandwideradop"on

Barriersonmarketandpostharvestregula"on Needforcapacitystrengtheningforfarmers/localactorsincl.tobuildpartnership,enterprisedevelopment

Furtherresearchandassessmentstofillremainingknowledgegapsontheenvironmentalconsequencesofpeatlandmanagementop"ons.