Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Practices as a Nature-Based Solution to Promote Water-Energy-Food Nexus Balance

Muthee, Kennedy; Duguma, Lalisa; Nzyoka, Judith; Minang, Peter A.

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“…However, the current trends in tropical deforestation and forests degradation have jeopardized the global efforts to curb climate change and its adverse effects on ecosystems and livelihoods. Studies such as Muthee et al (2018Muthee et al ( , 2021 note anthropogenic and natural factors, such as ecosystems conversion to support livelihoods, unsustainable natural resources extraction, and wildfires, as some of the key drivers behind tropical deforestation and forest degradation.…”

Section: Brief Background On Tropical Forests Conservation and Climate Risks Managementmentioning

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A Review of Global Policy Mechanisms Designed for Tropical Forests Conservation and Climate Risks Management

Muthee¹,

Duguma²,

Wainaina³

et al. 2022

Front. For. Glob. Change

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Deforestation and forest degradation of tropical forests are major global concerns due to their ecological, social, and economic roles. In the wake of climate change and its diverse global effects, fragmentation and degradation of tropical forests have jeopardized their ability to support livelihoods and regenerate climate regulating services. Concerted efforts by local, national, and international players, which are primarily scientific, technological, or economic, have borne minimal results in safeguarding these forests from destruction, necessitating a more integrated and inclusive approach. The Rio Earth Summit (1992) brought together world leaders to set targets and priorities on the global sustainability agenda and laid a strong foundation for international policy cooperation in the future. This study employed a systematic review of articles published between 1992 and 2020 to establish how various policy mechanisms have been developed and evolved to bridge forests and climate change discourse in tropical forests while highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. The initial search of peer-reviewed publications and gray literature yielded 2622 records, which were subjected to inclusion and exclusion criteria based on The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta Analyses guidelines, resulting in a final list of 65 records for in-depth qualitative analysis. The study establishes that the mechanisms in place have contributed mainly to more coordination and incentives to manage climate risks, primarily through tropical forests conservation. However, hurdles such as inadequate participation and involvement of the local and indigenous people, insufficient national and local policy frameworks and bureaucracies around emissions monitoring, measuring, reporting, and verification processes continue to slow tropical forest conservation. Thus, there is a need for more integrated, multilevel, and diverse stakeholder engagement to achieve the set global targets effectively.

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A Review of Global Policy Mechanisms Designed for Tropical Forests Conservation and Climate Risks Management

Muthee¹,

Duguma²,

Wainaina³

et al. 2022

Front. For. Glob. Change

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“…The review process included journal articles, working papers, technical reports, theses and book chapters. As shown in Table 1, the economic or ecosystem services for which we reviewed substantially more articles included agricultural and food outputs (11), carbon stocks within the cocoa production systems (8), and input use in Ghana s cocoa production (7). On the other hand, few relevant publications were found on some ecosystem services, and only one or two publications were reviewed.…”

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“…Sustainable intensification, a key component of climate-smart agriculture, is also increasingly being promoted within cocoa farms as a strategy to minimize further deforestation. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) aims to meet the triple challenge of raising agricultural productivity and farm incomes, enhancing adaptation and resilience to climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture [10,11]. In addition to achieving the three objectives of CSA, agroforestry (AF) can directly benefit forest conservation.…”

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A Review of the Trade-Offs across Different Cocoa Production Systems in Ghana

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Cocoa production is one of the leading causes of deforestation in West Africa. Agroforestry cocoa systems are increasingly promoted as a possible solution to deforestation. This study seeks to understand the trade-offs within agroforestry cocoa in full-sun and high-tech plantation cocoa systems in Ghana. It uses secondary data collected from an extensive literature search. The results established various trade-offs between cocoa yields and other provisioning services derived from the agroforestry services. While the cocoa yields in high-tech systems are almost thrice those in agroforestry systems, the total value of all the provisioning services is highest within the shaded systems. The economic value of per hectarage yield is estimated at USD 8140, USD 5320 and USD 5050 for shaded, full-sun and high-tech systems, respectively. Agroforestry systems also have higher ecosystem services compared to full-sun cocoa and high-tech cocoa systems. The high pesticide use in Ghana′s high-tech cocoa systems is also strongly linked to water and soil pollution, as well as adverse effects on human health. The study concludes that different cocoa production systems in Ghana yield different types of ecosystem provision and are associated with externalities such as the effect of pesticides on soils, water and human health, thus there is a need for the careful consideration of the system from policy and practice perspectives.

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“…In a study to evaluate the contributions of EbA practices to the waterenergy-food (WEF) nexus balance, Muthee et al (2021) designed practical pathways and identified barriers to achieving this balance. They analyzed data collected from 50 community forests spread across three regions in The Gambia.…”

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Adaptation to Climate Change with Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

Meubeck¹,

C.²,

Gitz³

2021

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Ten years of forests, trees and agroforestry research in partnership for sustainable development About the FTA Highlights seriesThis publication is part of a series that highlights the main findings, results and achievements of the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA), from 2011 to 2021 (see full list of chapters on the last page).FTA, the world's largest research for development partnership on forests, trees and agroforestry, started in 2011. FTA gathers partners that work across a range of projects and initiatives, organized around a set of operational priorities. Such research was funded by multiple sources: CGIAR funders through program-level funding, and funders of bilateral projects attached to the programme, undertaken by one or several of its partners. Overall this represented an effort of about 850 million USD over a decade.The ambition of this series is, on each topic, to show the actual contributions of FTA to research and development challenges and solutions over a decade. It features the work undertaken as part of the FTA program, by the strategic partners of FTA (CIFOR-ICRAF, The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT, CATIE, CIRAD, Tropenbos and INBAR) and/or with other international and national partners. Such work is presented indifferently in the text as work "from FTA" and/ or from the particular partner/organization that led it. Most of the references cited are from the FTA program.This series was elaborated under the leadership of the FTA Director, overall guidance of an Editorial Committee constituted by the Management Team of FTA, support from the FTA Senior Technical Advisor, and oversight of the FTA Independent Steering Committee whose independent members acted as peer-reviewers of all the volumes in the series.

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Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Practices as a Nature-Based Solution to Promote Water-Energy-Food Nexus Balance

Cited by 22 publications

References 53 publications

A Review of Global Policy Mechanisms Designed for Tropical Forests Conservation and Climate Risks Management

A Review of Global Policy Mechanisms Designed for Tropical Forests Conservation and Climate Risks Management

A Review of the Trade-Offs across Different Cocoa Production Systems in Ghana

Adaptation to Climate Change with Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

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