ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins:

Science Week UpdateGlobal Coordination Office

For ASB Global

SEPTEMBER 2011, NAIROBI

Goal and Outputs• “Raise productivity and income of rural households living in the

tropical forest margins without increasing deforestation or undermining essential environmental services.”

• ASB1. Site-specific results and cross-regional syntheses of tradeoffs at the tropical forest margins and options for optimizing those tradeoffs.

• ASB2. Results on tradeoffs and policy options are disseminated to national, regional and international stakeholders and policy fora, with particular emphasis on policy processes identified as having greatest potential for advancing the ASB goal.

• ASB3. An efficient, productive and member-owned research network at the national, regional and international scales.

ASB in Time

But ‘sparing’ versus

‘sharing’ debate

continues…

NSS recogni-zed as key INRM concept in PNAS paper 2011

Fairness vs efficiency issue gets wider recognition in REDD debate

CORE ASB PARTNERS

REDD+ REALU Land Based NAMA

Conservation

REDD

Forest management Enhancement of forest carbon stocksPedroni, 2007

Dependent on forest definition

Independent of forest definition

Explicitly cross-sectoral

Project Portfolio 2010/2011

Contributing to / Partnering in CRP 6.3, 6.4 and CRP 7 (CCAFs). Eventually 1.2 THROUGH ICRAF

Reducing Emissions from All Land Use – REALU (June 2009 to Present)

Carbon measurements in Peru

Photo: Tito, 2011

 • Contributing to a number of Issues t in the

International REDD / climate debate including:

• Landscape approaches, • Forest definition • Emissions Embedded in Trade• Relevance of emissions / emission

reductions “outside forest” etc• High Carbon Stocks Rural

Development Pathways • Agricultural drivers of deforestation

• Field work in Indonesia, Peru, Cameroon and Vietnam

• A number of Publications emerging • 1 article in Press - LUP• 4 articles in Review –LUP• 1 Book Chapter in Press• 2 Book Chapters in Review• Several Reports and Papers in

development

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Science Policy Impact (2010-2011)

HOW

• Three Regional Workshops (co-organized with World Bank, FCPF & UN-REDD) Africa, Asia and LA

• Five National level trainings (Indonesia, Vietnam, Cameroon, Peru, Panama)

• Over 250 Persons trained world-wide

• ASB Backstopping UN-REDD Opcost analysis in Panama (ongoing)

Science Policy / Capacity Impact (2010-2011)

Future Focus 1:Swiddens in Poverty Alleviation, Climate and Ecosystem Services- SPACES• Global / Regional

analysis of Swidden Change

• Swidden and REDD+ (And REALU & NAMA)

• Shifting Cultivation and poverty reduction and Environmental services (Modelling)

• Promoting Innovation and alternatives (10 Landscapes)

• Specific Congo Basin Requests on strategies for shifting cultivation within REDD- e.g DRC

Future Focus 2:Linking Mitigation and Adaptation (MITI-ADAPT GLOBAL)

ADAPTATIONMITIGATIONADAPTATIONMITIGATION

FCPF (World Bank); UN-REDD;

BILATERAL FUNDS

ADAPTATION FUND

NAPAREDD

READINESS

REDD & NAMA

ACTIVITIES

ADAPTATION ACTIVITIES

GREEN CLIMATE FUND; ADAPTATION FUND; FCPF (WORLD BANK); UN-REDD;

BILATERAL

NAPAREDD

READINESS

ADAPTATION ACTIVITIES

REDD & NAMA ACTIVITIES

GLOBAL LEVEL

NATIONAL LEVEL

LOCAL LEVEL

1A 1B

CURRENT SCENARIO DESIRED SCENARIO

Land use practices; Policies; Financing; & science-policy interface

MERCI / THANK YOU/ GRACIAS / TERIMAKASI/ OBRIGADO /

Dank U Wel/

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