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ArticleLand tenure governance approaches that tackle policy incoherence, secure rights, improve livelihoods, and maintain forests: Replicable and scalable lessons from a grassroot experience in Honduras
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Insecure forest tenure can hamper even the most exemplary community forestry management initiatives. This paper describes and reflects on the case study of the Villa Santa Agroforestry Cooperative, a community organization located in eastern Honduras. Due to policy incoherence, the public forest area concessioned to them since the 1970's was later subjected to land privatization-individual titling schemes based on Agrarian Reform policies. This disrupted and fragmented the former collective tenure regime under which the Cooperative had well managed the forest. In 2012, the concession was almost revoked due to this situation threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of families that depended on it. Despite the challenging context, the institutional leadership and commitment shown by a renewed forest administration and the Cooperative reverted this decision. In 2013, both entities initiated an ample Forest-Land Regularization Process that included the cadaster of all public and private plots and their right holders. Wide open consultations were held with stakeholders, including private land-owners who negotiated mechanisms to work with the Cooperative. As a result, a Public-Private Forest Management Plan was approved; an innovative scheme that remains to this day the only of its kind in Honduras. These processes enabled the Cooperative to attract investments from government, private sector and donors, including agroforestry schemes to restore degraded areas and diversify incomes. Also, transactional costs of traditional activities like pine resination have lowered, and thus continue to sustain communities' livelihoods in the midst of the COVID19 crisis. Further research is still needed to evaluate the scale of the impact and sustainability of the initiatives, but the initial outcomes show the need to escalate its lessons and good practices to a renewed nation-wide community forestry policy that can better contribute to the SDG's livelihood and conservation objectives. Keywords: Forest tenure; Secure land rights; Collective land rights; Community-based forestry; Honduras ID: 3485859 -
ArticleUnderstanding the impact of thinning on holm oak water-use through simultaneous and continuous monitoring of twig water potential, transpiration and soil moisture
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Adaptive silviculture in semiarid climates must focus on enhancing eco-physiogical traits that provide functional advantages to water scarcity. Intraspecific plasticity in such traits is especially important to correctly address silvicultural prescriptions. Studying changes in avoidance (tightly closure of stomata when water potential drops, or atmospheric demand rises) or tolerance (weak stomatal control of transpiration) mechanisms to water stress after forest treatments could improve the understanding of their eco-physiological impact to cope with increasing aridity in forests. Water potential (Ψ), transpiration (T) and other ecohydrological variables are important in this sense and can be simultaneously assessed, although measuring Ψ in forests with traditional pressure chamber is cumbersome and not continuous in time. The aim of this work is to use continuous measures of Ψ, T and soil moisture (SM) to test the ecohydrological behavior of oaks 10 years after thinning. This study was carried out in a holm oak forest in southwestern Spain, where one plot was thinned 10 years ago, and another plot was a control (without treatment). Three trees in each plot were continuously (every hour) monitored for Ψ, T and soil moisture (SM) besides meteorological variables. The continuous measurement of Ψ was obtained by using psychrometers and validated with pressure chamber. Our results show that the average Ψ of the thinned trees, -0.487 ± 0.639 MPa, reflects a more favorable water status than that of the control plot, -0.604 ± 0.698 MPa, despite the lower tree-water use in the latter plot. Also, it was observed a more positive relationship between T and Ψ in the control than in thinning plot. On the other hand, the relationship between Ψ and SM was not affected by the treatment. In addition to this physiological benefit, it could be an advantage against climate change, since by favoring these flows, the trees' CO2 uptake will increase. Keywords: Adaptive and integrated management, Monitoring and data collection, Sustainable forest management, Knowledge management, Climate change. ID: 3623177 -
ArticleAdoption of community-based monitoring to peatland restoration: Lesson from participatory action research in Riau, Indonesia
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Restoration of degraded peatland ecosystems is fundamental to achieve sustainable development principally through those on climate change interventions, poverty eradication, food security, water regulation, and biodiversity conservation. Effective monitoring highly considers as an important stage for a successful restoration project allowing measurement of progress and identify corrective action or modification. Despite there are well-established peatland monitoring networks in Indonesia, the coverage area is still limited and not able to show restoration impact at a local scale. In this study, we demonstrate the value of community-based observations for monitoring peatland conditions under restoration activities as an alternative to broaden the coverage area. Learning from requirements, problems, limitations, and emerging new technology, we develop a Community Based Peatland Restoration Monitoring System (CO-PROMISE) to combine participatory measurement, science, and technology. The system offering an approach that adopting a method of technology that capable to works offline, compatible with cheap smartphones, affordable development cost, safe storage at cloud systems, transparent to monitor its result and local involvement. Community- based monitoring system implemented within a 13-ha community-based peatland restoration area in Bengkalis, Riau, Indonesia. An online dashboard was created to show groundwater level and soil moisture data as the impact of rewetting activities. Monitoring data helps develop insights into restoration activities progress and its impact within the study area. Despite there are challenges in encouraging the local community to keep monitoring activities after the project ended, community- based monitoring has been successfully collected temporal data of groundwater level, soil moisture, peat subsidence, and stored in a cloud database and published in the online dashboard. Moreover, a community-based monitoring system can be an alternative monitoring process during COVID pandemic situations, where travel can be limited for other stakeholders. Keywords: Restoration, Peatland, Monitoring System, Participatory Action Research ID: 3486089
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