Es esencial reforzar el vínculo entre la conservación de bosques y el manejo de la biodiversidad en las tierras agrícolas, a fin de sostener y mantener la producción agrícola. El Plan Estratégico de Diversidad Biológica del Perú contempla la Meta 7 de AICHI mediante la cual se busca incrementar las áreas agrícolas bajo manejo sostenible. Aun así, no se hace hincapié en estos árboles que pertenecen a la matriz agrícola ni en sus aportes a la biodiversidad. Por ello, es importante alinear las políticas y las acciones de las instituciones para lograr el control y reducción de la deforestación, mediante procesos que permitan la conservación y restauración de los servicios ecosistémicos en los territorios rurales con soluciones basadas en la naturaleza, y en la conservación y manejo de los árboles. Se espera que el actual proceso de actualización del Plan Estratégico de Diversidad Biológica del Perú permita reconocer la importancia y los aportes de estos árboles a la biodiversidad, en el contexto del marco global para la biodiversidad post-2020.
Tag: biodiversity
Certifying Environmental Social Responsibility: Special Issue
This Special Issue aims to contribute to the emerging science on how to maintain and rehabilitate biodiversity and ecosystem services effectively in the tropics where agricultural expansion has shaped the landscapes. Food production as a provisioning ecosystem service dominates direct economic value and employment in roughly half the world. Its sustainability, or lack thereof, depends on how the trade-offs between human activities and ecosystem services, beyond the provision of food, are balanced and managed locally and globally.
This Special Issue is a result of a research program by CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry. This program ‘zooms out’ from the details of certification schemes as such and ask the broader questions of when, where and how certification responses arise to what types of issues, by whom they are initiated and what broader consequences they have.
Complete list of articles are:
- Environmentally and socially responsible global production and trade of timber and tree crop commodities: certification as a transient issue-attention cycle response to ecological and social issues
Beria Leimona, Meine van Noordwijk, Dagmar Mithöfer, Paolo Cerutti - Certify and shift blame, or resolve issues? Environmentally and socially responsible global trade and production of timber and tree crops
Dagmar Mithöfer, Meine van Noordwijk, Beria Leimona, Paolo Omar Cerutti - Tropical forest-transition landscapes: a portfolio for studying people, tree crops and agro-ecological change in context
Sonya Dewi, Meine Van Noordwijk, Muhammad Thoha Zulkarnain, Adrian Dwiputra, Glenn Hyman, Ravi Prabhu, Vincent Gitz, Robert Nasi - Discourses on the performance gap of agriculture in a green economy: a Q-methodology study in Indonesia
Sacha Amaruzaman, Beria Leimona, Meine van Noordwijk, Betha Lusiana - Unpacking ‘sustainable’ cocoa: do sustainability standards, development projects and policies address producer concerns in Indonesia, Cameroon and Peru?
Dagmar Mithöfer, James M. Roshetko, Jason A. Donovan, Ewane Nathalie, Valentina Robiglio, Duman Wau, Denis J. Sonwa, Trent Blare - Harnessing local strength for sustainable coffee value chains in India and Nicaragua: reevaluating certification to global sustainability standards
Dagmar Mithöfer, V. Ernesto Méndez, Arshiya Bose, Philippe Vaast - Reviewing the impacts of coffee certification programmes on smallholder livelihoods
Joshua G. Bray, Jeffrey Neilson - Making a green rubber stamp: emerging dynamics of natural rubber eco-certification
Sean F. Kennedy, Beria Leimona, Zhuang-Fang Yi - Timber certification as a catalyst for change in forest governance in Cameroon, Indonesia, and Peru
Sini Savilaakso, Paolo Omar Cerutti, Javier G. Montoya Zumaeta, Ruslandi, Edouard E. Mendoula, Raphael Tsanga - Energizing agroforestry: Ilex guayusa as an additional commodity to diversify Amazonian agroforestry systems
Torsten Krause, Barry Ness
Challenges for developing Forest Stewardship Council certification for ecosystem services: How to enhance local adoption?
The rise of ecosystem services (ES) as a conservation and management tool has changed the way forests are conceived, but so far its translation into management actions has been limited. In this paper, we discuss the development of certification of forest ecosystem services (FES) from the perspective of those implementing it at the local level. We focus on the lessons that emerged from applying the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification framework at selected sites in Chile, Indonesia, Nepal and Vietnam.
Our results indicate a clear relationship between local and global levels in the development of FSC FES certification. Although the FSC already had a broad vision of ES, it was only through local-level learning within a specific pilot experiment that the vision evolved and resulted in more formal FES certification becoming part of FSC forest management certification. We also found that those sites where participatory approaches to management and decision-making were applied could work with an undefined vision of the future system, and still successfully design and implement management activities. However, overall the lack of specific vision and detailed information about future FES certification was problematic in attracting market interest in FSC certified ES.
Are community forests a viable model for the Democratic Republic of Congo?
Since the second half of the 2000s, several options for implementing community-based forest management in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), like the local community forest concession (LCFC), have been discussed in the country’s technical and political circles. Proposals and pilot testing have increased in the last five years, but the funding of initiatives is often proposed for divergent purposes and taking different approaches. We reviewed current experiences in the Eastern province of the DRC and found that nobody has carried out an estimation of the financial returns of the business models they drew up for/with the communities involved. We therefore conducted a financial feasibility analysis for two case studies, estimating the costs of developing/implementing activities and the benefits expected for the communities within the next five years. Three main conclusions were drawn from the analysis: (1) most activities conducted under the LCFC model deal with rural development, and not with forestry operations per se; (2) several forestry activities such as biodiversity conservation or carbon sequestration are not detailed in the management documents and appear to have little legitimacy for local populations; (3) the two LCFCs show a negative financial performance because the inception and implementation costs are substantially higher than the medium-term profits. Community forestry is unlikely to develop in the DRC unless local people are guaranteed that it will contribute to improving their livelihoods, notably their financial and physical capital. This requires that LCFC initiatives focus on actual productive uses of forest resources, which financial performance is systematically assessed ex ante. A simplification of the legal constraints is also needed to reduce the cost of creating and managing a LCFC.