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Global strategy: Transformative Partnership Platform for quality tree seed and seedling delivery systems (Quality Tree Seed TPP)

Achieving tree planting targets in support of restoration and other tree planting goals requires effective tree seed and seedling delivery systems that provide high-quality planting materials, but current systems are suboptimal. This issue has gained prominence on the restoration agenda, with substantial investments being made to address current delivery bottlenecks.

Building on decades of research and practical experience in tree-planting interventions, and on extensive partner networks, the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) is leading the development of a Transformative Partnership Platform for quality tree seed and seedling delivery systems (Quality Tree Seed TPP).

This global strategy outlines the Quality Tree Seed TPP’s main objectives, scope, governance, and activities, plus related projects and a glossary of relevant terms. During the initial phase, the Quality Tree Seed TPP will be mainly supported by the Right Tree in the Right Place for the Right Purpose project (RTRP-Seed), funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German government. This project has at its heart the goal of addressing tree seed and seedling delivery bottlenecks for planting native tree species in African countries and is implemented CIFOR-ICRAF, Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) and Unique Land Use.

Criteria and indicators for tropical peatland restoration

Restoring tropical peatlands is essential for achieving sustainable development goals. Yet measuring restoration progress remains a challenge, particularly across diverse landscapes and stakeholder contexts. This working paper presents a structured framework of Criteria and Indicators (C&I) by which peatland restoration initiatives can be monitored and evaluated with scientific rigor and practical relevance.

Developed through multi-stakeholder consultations and field validation in Indonesia, the framework encompasses four key dimensions: biophysical, social, economic and governance. It enables evidence-based decision-making processes with the aim of fostering inclusive peatland management.

By integrating ecological science with local knowledge and institutional analysis, this paper provides both conceptual grounding and applied guidance for researchers, practitioners and policymakers. Insights generated through applying its framework can help to build more accountable and effective peatland restoration programs – both within Indonesia and beyond.

Restoring forest cover at diverse sites across Canada can balance synergies and trade-offs

Swift action to restore forests is critical for mitigating climate change and preserving biodiversity. Canada has an ambitious program to plant two billion trees to help exceed the country’s emissions targets while restoring forest habitat and providing social and economic benefits. We conducted a systematic analysis of where new tree cover can maximally achieve these benefits while minimizing implementation costs. Accounting for critiques of global restoration mapping that include the overestimation of mitigation potential and inadequate biodiversity and social safeguards, we find that 19.1 Mha are available, which is much more than the approximately 1.2 Mha needed to plant two billion trees. Optimization scenarios for 1.2 Mha revealed synergies and trade-offs. Scenarios prioritizing low costs, accessibility, and high growth are concentrated in temperate and coastal areas, overlapping partly with biodiversity scenarios, but with trade-offs of higher costs. A diverse portfolio of regionally restored sites, each tailored for specific attributes, is most likely to deliver multiple benefits at the pace demanded by the current crises.

Editorial for the Thematic Series in Agriculture & Food Security: Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies in West Africa: learning from the ground AR4D experiences

This Thematic Series on “Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies in West Africa: learning from the ground AR4D experiences” contains seven papers presented by researchers from four West African countries based on participatory action research conducted since 2012 in the region. These research activities were funded by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) through a project titled “Developing community-based climate-smart agriculture through participatory action research in CCAFS benchmark sites in West Africa” (see [1]). This research action under the scientific lead of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) aimed to test and validate, in partnership with rural communities and other stakeholders, scalable climate-smart village models for agricultural development that integrate a range of innovative agricultural risk management strategies. The project also aimed to enable farmers, developers, managers and policy makers for the agriculture sector to develop cost-effective climate-smart agriculture (CSA) options that support local sustainable development and enhance livelihood resilience. It is therefore a response to the challenges (degraded lands, low crop productivity, high level of poverty for rural people, etc.) faced to satisfy the food needs of an increasing population in the face of a changing climate.

Editorial for the Thematic Series in Agriculture & Food Security: Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies in West Africa: learning from the ground AR4D experiences

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