KE Fellowship: Facilitating sustainable reforestation in tropical agricultural landscapes as a nature-based solution - HARP

KE 奖学金：作为基于自然的解决方案促进热带农业景观的可持续重新造林 - HARP

• 批准号: NE/V018590/1
• 负责人: William Joseph Thompson
• 金额: $ 23.07万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FV018590%2F1
• 关键词: KE; Fellowship; Facilitating; sustainable; reforestation

Reforestation has been identified as a potentially powerful Nature-based solution (NbS) to climate mitigation and adaptation challenges, whilst supporting biodiversity and other sustainable development goals. However, many potential risks with reforestation have also been identified, including trade-offs with food security and biodiversity. Despite these concerns, multiple actors are already pursuing reforestation strategies in tropical agricultural landscapes. In particular, actors in commodity value chains, such as cocoa and coffee, are making commitments to agroforest-based reforestation. These actors have stated that they are facing challenges in the sustainable delivery of these pledges. Here we identify a knowledge exchange (KE) gap between practitioners and scientists: how to implement successful and sustainable reforestation as an NbS in tropical agricultural landscapes.To fill this gap, this fellowship would facilitate KE between scientists, conservation practitioners and industry, in cocoa and coffee value chains, building on relationships already established by the applicant William Thompson and the host, the Nature-based Solutions Initiative (NbSI), U. Oxford. State-of-the-art knowledge regarding agroforestry and reforestation, as well as new knowledge generated from the KE process, will be packaged under the umbrella of the High Agricultural Reforestation Potential (HARP) Toolkit. The KE process will also lead to establishing a set of best practice principles for reforestation in smallholder agriculture contexts.We propose a dual case study of cocoa in Ghana and coffee in Vietnam, two leading commodity producing countries with high deforestation risk but also high reforestation potential. These complementary cases are selected to maximise the usability of the toolkit across geographies and commodities. Overall, we will adopt a transdisciplinary approach, whereby the framing of challenges in reforestation and the development of the toolkit will be performed jointly between stakeholders, including; chocolate companies (Lindt), certifiers (Rainforest Alliance, 4C), project developers (Plan Vivo), NGOs (IDH), farmer organisations, finance (Green Finance Institute) and scientists (NbSI, Oxford, KE fellows, NERC researchers), as well as international collaborators (ETH Zurich, Queensland). Phase 1 of the fellowship will convene an "Agroforestry and Reforestation" KE network consisting i) Overarching cross-commodity platform (semi-virtual/UK), ii) Cocoa value chain platform (Ghana w/ KNUST, IITA) and iii) Coffee value chain platform (Vietnam w/ CIAT, IDH). Phase 2 will co-design and test the HARP toolkit with stakeholders. Phase 3 will synthesise a set of best practice principles for reforestation in smallholder agricultural landscapes.The HARP toolkit will enable planning of agroforest-based reforestation interventions at a landscape scale by a consortium of actors. The toolkit will allow for the evaluation of different agroforest and reforestation (e.g. patch enrichment, riparian buffers) configurations against user defined criteria (e.g. farmer income, carbon sequestration). Network members have already been identified as HARP Toolkit testers (IDH, Rainforest Alliance, Plan Vivo). A key impact of this fellowship, therefore, would be to translate NERC and NERC remit science to enhance the sustainability of reforestation interventions in cocoa and coffee value chains. More widely, the "best practice principles" can inform the creation of reforestation commitments by supply chain companies (e.g. Lindt), as well as policies by producing and consuming country governments (e.g. via UK Global Resources Initiative). In addition, NERC researchers and KE fellows will benefit from the KE process by building understanding of reforestation actors' scientific needs. We intend that the KE process can be sustainable and that the network will be self-maintaining after the fellowship.

重新造林已被确定为一种潜在的基于自然的解决方案（NB），以缓解气候和适应性挑战，同时支持生物多样性和其他可持续发展目标。但是，还确定了许多潜在的风险，包括在粮食安全和生物多样性方面取舍。尽管有这些担忧，但多个参与者已经在热带农业景观中采取造林策略。特别是，商品价值连锁店（例如可可和咖啡）中的参与者正在对基于农业的造林做出承诺。这些参与者表示，他们在这些承诺的可持续交付方面面临着挑战。 Here we identify a knowledge exchange (KE) gap between practitioners and scientists: how to implement successful and sustainable reforestation as an NbS in tropical agricultural landscapes.To fill this gap, this fellowship would facilitate KE between scientists, conservation practitioners and industry, in cocoa and coffee value chains, building on relationships already established by the applicant William Thompson and the host, the Nature-based Solutions Initiative (NbSI), U.牛津。关于农林鱼和翻新的最新知识以及KE过程产生的新知识，将在高农业重新造林潜力（HARP）工具包下包装。 KE过程还将导致在小农农业环境中建立一系列最佳实践原则，以造林。我们建议对加纳可可和越南咖啡进行双重案例研究，越南，这是两个具有较高剥夺森林砍伐风险的主要商品生产国，但也具有很高的造林潜力。选择这些互补案例以最大化工具包跨地理和商品的可用性。总体而言，我们将采用一种跨学科的方法，从而在利益相关者之间共同执行重新造林和工具包的挑战，包括：巧克力公司（Lindt），认证者（Rainforest Alliance，4C），项目开发人员（PLAN VIVO），NGOS（IDH），农民组织，金融研究所（Green Finance Institute）和科学家（NBSI，牛津，Ke Fellows，NERC研究员，NERC研究人员）以及国际合作者（Eth Zurich，Queeensland）。奖学金的第1阶段将召集“农林林和翻新” KE网络i）总体跨商品平台（半虚拟/英国），ii）可可价值链平台（w/ knust，knust，iita）和iii III）咖啡价值链（越南W/ ciat ciat，idh）。第2阶段将与利益相关者共同设计和测试HARP工具包。第三阶段将综合小农业景观中的一系列最佳实践原则。该工具包将允许评估不同的农业污泥和造林（例如补丁富集，河岸缓冲区）配置，以针对用户定义的标准（例如，农民收入，碳碳水化合物）进行评估。网络成员已经被确定为HARP工具包测试人员（IDH，Rainforest Alliance，Plan Vivo）。因此，该团契的主要影响是翻译NERC和NERC汇总科学，以增强可可和咖啡价值连锁店的造林干预措施的可持续性。更广泛地说，“最佳实践原则”可以告知供应链公司（例如Lindt）以及通过制造和消费国家政府（例如，通过UK Global Resources Initiative）的政策创建造林承诺。此外，NERC研究人员和KE研究员将通过建立对造林参与者的科学需求的理解来从KE过程中受益。我们认为KE流程可以可持续，并且在奖学金之后网络将自我维护。