Can agroforestry ‘win the heart' of peatland restora5on

agenda ? A"ekWidaya"

ICRAFSoutheastAsia

Land use-peatland induced hazards…

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

• IndonesiaasthehighestCO2emiOerfromland-basedsector

(GFED4s,>www.globalfiredata.org<)--FigurecourtesyGuidovanderWerf).

Emi$ng1,043MtCO2eq

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

•  Foodprovisionà1Mmegaricefieldprogramin1990sàfailureintechnicali"esandmanagementàlargesourceoffireinCKalimantan

• PulpandpaperindustriesàAcaciaplanta"ons

• CPOexports,food-cropcommodi"esàOilpalmplanta"ons

Strategies, agenda and priori5es

Indonesia’sPresidentJokoWidodoinspectspeatlandinKalimantan.Photograph:RomeoGacad/AFP/GeOyImages

We need a new Peatland Management Authority,

reporting directly to me…

‘PeatlandRestora"onAgency'àmajorapproaches:-  Peatlandrewe^ngà

Canalblocking-  Paludiculture

•  Regional(ASEAN):§  ASEANPeatlandManagementStrategies

§  ASEANAgreementonTransboundaryPollu"on

•  Indonesia??

How about agroforestry prac5ces on peatland ?

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

Whyagroforestonpeatlands:•  Whererewe^ngisnotimmediatelyfeasibleàe.g.highsocialcost

•  Adap"vefarmingforpeatlandàmi"ga"ngfirehazards:lowinputfarmingandmul"stratatomaintainhumidenvironment

•  ‘Low-impactagriculture’(ASEANStrategy)àmi"ga"onofover-drainage

•  Mul"func"onali"es(RE:‘economyofproduc"onecology’)

•  Localwisdomandknowledge

Wahyuntoetal,2014

MieHnnenetal,2016

Upscalabilityà op5ons by/in context

WidayaJ,Tata,vanNoordwijk,(inpress)

Conclusions and Challenges (over opportuni5es)

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

• Policiesandregula"onreflec"nggood-willandabilityarecrucial• Challenges:

•  Foragroforestàitiss"llconsideredasplotandfarmlevelprac"ce;challengedforwideradop"onforpeatlandscapeandpeatlandrestora"on.

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

•  Barriersonmarketandpostharvestregula"on•  Needforcapacitystrengtheningforfarmers/localactorsincl.tobuildpartnership,enterprisedevelopment

•  Furtherresearchandassessmentsàtofillremainingknowledgegapsontheenvironmentalconsequencesofpeatlandmanagementop"ons.