Managing tree cover to restore farm productivity and build landscape and livelihood resilience in West Africa

Bayala, Jules; Harmand, Jean‐Michel

doi:10.1007/s10457-023-00878-4

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“…2.5 million people now benefit from this improved use of land, across 25 different African countries [106]. Nonetheless, although acknowledging that where FMNR is done, benefits accrue, it has been proposed that further research is necessary to substantiate some of the claims made for the method and the underlying scientific basis for its efficacy [107,108]. In the context of trees and a changing climate, it seems appropriate to mention agroforestry, and as a lead-in to the next section, we note that FMNR has been demonstrated as a useful methodology for scaling-up the benefits of agroforestry systems [109].…”

Section: Farmer Managed Natural Regenerationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trees—Protectors Against a Changing Climate

Rhodes

2024

Ecological Civilization

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There are estimated to be about 3 trillion trees on Earth, or about half the number that existed before the dawn of human civilization. Trees are vital to at least four major biogeochemical cycles, namely, the carbon, water, nitrogen and oxygen cycles. In addition to absorbing carbon, and releasing oxygen through photosynthesis, trees are critical for maintaining biodiversity, providing habitat for 80% of land based wildlife, feeding the soil, generating clouds and increasing albedo (thus causing global cooling), influencing rainfall and weather patterns. The loss of trees, therefore, weakens our chances of reaching climate and biodiversity targets, and so proforestation and other practices to stringently preserve the functionality of and holistically restore forest ecosystems, must be adopted as a matter of urgency, paying due attention to soil, and species diversity including mycorrhizae; not being limited to insouciant "tree planting" solutions. Indeed, due to the tardiness of our actions to repair the Earth and its climate, severe restrictions to the cutting of mature trees must actually be enabled globally. However, this alone is not enough, and must be integrated with other forms of land, wetland, grassland and agricultural protection and restoration. Such Nature Based Solutions could provide over one-third of the climate mitigation needed by 2030 to keep within the 2 °C global heating limit. Nonetheless, it is also critical to curb greenhouse gas emissions at source, not only by implementing low-carbon, renewable energy, but also energy demand reduction strategies, such as insulating buildings, societal relocalisation, and local food growing.

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Section: Farmer Managed Natural Regenerationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trees—Protectors Against a Changing Climate

Rhodes

2024

Ecological Civilization

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Crop monitoring using remote sensing land use and land change data: Comparative analysis of deep learning methods using pre-trained CNN models

Peng,

Liu,

Khan

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Management of the Lati Petangis grand forest park (TAHURA): roles and perceptions of forest farmer groups

Firdaus,

Nursakinah

2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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This research aims to identify and descriptively analyze the roles and perceptions of Forest Farmers Groups in the management of Tahura Lati Petangis in Batu Engau District, Paser Regency. This research uses a quantitative descriptive approach. The sample in this study consisted of all members of the three Forest Farmers Groups located around the Tahura Lati Petangis area, totaling 52 people. The results showed that the role of the Forest Farmer Group, which is a partner in the management of Tahura Lati Petangis, is to make efforts to restore the ecosystem and make efforts to manage forests sustainably in the form of Agroforestry, where partnerships with forest farmer groups are carried out in the form of work orders. While the perception of the Forest Farmer Group in the management of Tahura Lati Petangis shows that this partnership is very beneficial for forest farmer groups, they also get insight, skills, and wages from the Tahura Lati Petangis management, because they have planted and maintained the main plant, namely forest plants, and besides that, they also get additional income from planting intercrops and coaching from the Tahura Lati Petangis management.

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Managing tree cover to restore farm productivity and build landscape and livelihood resilience in West Africa

Cited by 3 publications

References 34 publications

Trees—Protectors Against a Changing Climate

Trees—Protectors Against a Changing Climate

Crop monitoring using remote sensing land use and land change data: Comparative analysis of deep learning methods using pre-trained CNN models

Management of the Lati Petangis grand forest park (TAHURA): roles and perceptions of forest farmer groups

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