The GIZ project ACCES implements adaptation measures in vulnerable watersheds. Natural resources, such as water and soil, are managed sustainably in order to reduce erosion and improve agricultural yields. “green” no-regret adaptation measures, such as agroforestry and community reforestation, are complemented by other measures such as rainwater storage and promotion of rainwater infiltration and soil conservation measures.
REPC-MD developed the first competence register for protected area (PA) management in Madagascar. It covers the critical knowledge areas, skill sets, and attitudes required by effective PA professionals, and profiles the roles and responsibilities associated with effective PA management. We are supporting opportunities for training and certification of PA professionals aligned with this register, to advance the professionalization of national PA management.
Eradication of the neophyte Himalayan Balsam (Impatiens glandulifera) was a successful joint project of two bordering national parks Thayatal (AT) and Podyjí (CZ) that led to a significant decrease of Himalayan balsam plants in the river valley and return of native plants. The most important success factors were the common approach to river valley management, access to both river banks by Czech staff, change in management of river valley meadows, and ongoing joint monitoring in the river valley.
The State Carbon Offset Mechanism in the state of Querétaro incorporates subnational financing via small carbon taxes, a local and contextualized protocol that is adapted to landowners, and the use of regenerative tools in soil and forest management. The result is the recovery of forest health and landcover.
Three years ago, we began to the process of transferring this initiative to other subnational governments by organizing workshops, training technicians and producers in regenerative management, defining areas of operation, and analyzing innovative financing options.
As a result, we are triggering transformational change in the agricultural and forestry sectors and helping to recover forest health and landcover. This, in turn, ensures the protection of biodiversity, increases ecosystem services, and enables natural regeneration.
This public policy is undergoing development of the five guidelines as early adopters of the Initiative for Climate Transparency (ICAT).
Ajloun Reserve covers 12 sq km from the remaining fragile and fragmented forest patches northern Jordan. The most important component of RSCN’s solution to integrate the local communities in its conservation programs was nature-based low impact ecotourism. We developed eco-tourism infrastructure and facilities (cabins, restaurants, trails) to attract nature lovers to stay overnights in the area, which only received limited numbers of day visitors before the establishment of the reserve. We linked the reserve with the surrounding historical and cultural attractions creating benefits and alternative income to the local communities, and assisted in the rehabilitation of local houses located along the hiking trails as stop points for food and beverage. Our ecotourism product depends on natural and cultural resources, low level of technology with low negative impact on nature respecting the sites carrying capacity.
We constructed a novel method of market gardening: Synecoculture, based on the high-density mixed association of edible plants without the application of tillage, fertilizer, and chemicals.
We introduced a high crop diversity (200 species, 700 varieties in 1000㎡) for year-round sustainable harvests. This was shown to strengthen food security, nutrition profile, soil quality, cost efficiency, climate adaptation and field biodiversity.
In Japan, 2- to 4-fold productivity was attained compared to conventional method.
In Burkina Faso, 40- to 150-fold productivity and 10-fold cost-effectiveness was realized in the arid tropic region.
Linear extrapolation of the result shows a strategic propagation of synecoculture could lift the entire population of Burkina Faso above the poverty threshold, and substantial achievement of Aichi biodiversity targets.
While industrial farming practices contribute to a changing climate, agriculture done right has the ability to save the planet! That’s why Trees for the Future (TREES) helps farmers in the developing world to increase food security, generate sustainable income, and revitalize degraded lands through the Forest Garden Approach (FGA). Each year, TREES works directly with about 5,000 farming families consisting of over 30,000 people and teaches them 14 different agroforestry modules over a 4-year program. Annually, TREES helps farmers plant 20 million trees and cultivate farms to grow, on average, 27 varieties of crops/shrubs on land thought to be infertile. This achieves average income gains of an average 400% over four years. TREES also collaborates with agricultural development and food assistance organizations to train extension experts in the FGA to help others adopt sustainable, climate-smart agriculture programming, amplifying these powerful impacts.
Large parts of the rainforests in Borneo (Kalimantan) have been cleared or are degraded. The degraded areas are subject to erosion, offer little in terms of Ecosystem Services and provide no income to the locals. A solution is Forest Landscape Restoration with native tree species and agroforestry systems, starting with fast-growing, commerically viable pioneer species that stabilize and improve the soil with nitrogen fixing. In a second step, agricultural plants and tree species with longer rotation are added. Organic fertilizers such as compost contribute to the restoration of soil fertility.
Sikkim is the first state in the world that is 100% organic: All of its farmland is certified organic. The policy implemented a phase-out of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and achieved a total ban on sale and use of chemical pesticides in the state. The transition has benefitted more than 66,000 farming families.
At the same time, Sikkim’s approach reaches beyond organic production and has proved truly transformational for the state and its citizens. Embedded in its design are socioeconomic aspects such as consumption and market expansion, cultural aspects as well as health, education, rural development and sustainable tourism. Sikkim’s tourism sector, for instance, benefited greatly from the new organic image: between 2014 and 2017, the number of tourists increased by over 50 per cent.
For their achievements, Sikkim’s policies were awarded the Future Policy Gold Award 2018, awarded by the World Future Council in partnership with the FAO and IFOAM – Organics International.
Meeting the rising wood energy demand is a challenge and driver for deforestation and forest degradation. Forest landscape restoration (FLR) & AFR100 committments also address the sustainable production of wood energy to meet social and economic realities.
This solution applies a holistic view of the wood energy value chain by addressing all stakeholders in an adapted manner. Smallholder afforestation is at the heart of the solution. It combines legal, governance, economic and technical elements from land title transfers and individual afforestation schemes on degraded land at village level, to fuelwood harvesting, energy efficient charcoal processing, conversion, distribution and marketing, all the way to end-consumers & related combustion technology (improved cookstoves).
It modernizes the wood energy value chain & generates benefits for forest stewards, producers of improved stoves and end consumers alike. Their annual income has doubled on an average.
Voluntary work has been a good way to building teams and especially engaging local people on environmental efforts in two protected areas. We have benefitted from the need for college and university students to perform extra-curricular activities to complete their courses to attract volunteers. We have also developed a partnership with an NGO to recruit volunteers in urban centres to carry out specific activities. Volunteers are designated for projects in schools, communities and headquarters.
Val Alba Nature Reserve was established after a 1-year long participatory process that involved all local stakeholders and regional administration. It answered to a 30 year long expectation of the local community and it was the first bottom up experience of establishing a protected area in the Region Friuli Venezia Giulia (North East of Italy). This experience has become a model in the Region for the following preparation of Natura 2000 sites management plans.
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