Reforestation and smallholder livelihoods in the humid tropics

Ota, Liz; Herbohn, John; Gregorio, Nestor; Harrison, Steve

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104455

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“…The recommendation is that reforestation actions must be implemented in these areas, aiming at the environmental conservation of these fragile areas and at the landscape composition that can enhance other areas with greater ecotourism potential. Several authors demonstrate the effectiveness of reforestation in combating various environmental problems, such as [74][75][76][77], reinforcing the importance of forest restoration for local ecosystem services.…”

Section: Z1-low Potential For Ecotourism Ecosystem Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping Potential Zones for Ecotourism Ecosystem Services as a Tool to Promote Landscape Resilience and Development in a Brazilian Municipality

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In recent decades, with the increasing global need for sustainable development, ecotourism has emerged as one of the most efficient activities that can be used to reconcile economic development with environmental conservation. A growing interest in the ecotourism and ecosystem services provided by landscapes makes such services increasingly necessary within municipal planning processes. This study aims to construct a geoenvironmental model based on geographic information systems (GISs) to spatially identify areas with greater capacity to promote ecotourism, with a practical case study of the city of Brotas, Brazil. The model can produce an integrated analysis of landscape components using geoenvironmental, topographic, and urban data. As a result, four zones were classified according to their ecotourism potential, with 81% of the overall local territory showing great potential, which not only reinforces the territory’s resilience regarding sustainable development, but also demonstrates that ecotourism should be included in discussions related to environmental planning in Brotas, as well as in other municipalities that have ecotourism potential.

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Section: Z1-low Potential For Ecotourism Ecosystem Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping Potential Zones for Ecotourism Ecosystem Services as a Tool to Promote Landscape Resilience and Development in a Brazilian Municipality

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“…Many countries have engaged in extensive tree planting, reforestation and FLR schemes in recent years (Adams et al 2016), leading some to make a "forest transition", reversing trends away from deforestation and towards forest expansion (de Jong 2010, Rudel et al 2020). But the role of smallholders as drivers of these transitions is not well-understood (Meyfroidt et al 2018), in part because they engage in a number of models of tree planting (including agroforestry, scattered trees, and concentrated plantations) that are difficult to generalize (Pokorny et al 2010, Midgley et al 2017, Ota et al 2020. Consequently, national trends in forest transitions do not usually provide sufficient understanding of motivations for smallholder participation (Rudel et al 2020).…”

Section: Background: Smallholder Reforestation and Social Benefitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More localized case studies suggest that major barriers to participating in both FLR and general tree planting include insecure land tenure (McClain et al 2018), competition with agriculture (Ota et al 2020), and poor governance and corruption (Le et al 2012). Smallholder engagement often requires specific capabilities, including financial capital and long-term planning (Pokorny et al 2010), and structured incentives, such as access to markets, subsidies and extension (Chazdon et al 2017).…”

Section: Background: Smallholder Reforestation and Social Benefitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the Social Benefits of Tree Planting by Smallholders in Vietnam: Lessons for Large-Scale Reforestation Programs

McElwee

Nghi²

2021

Ecological Rest.

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In recent decades, Vietnam has embarked on several ambitious projects, including restoration of coastal mangroves and the expansion of national forest cover through large-scale tree planting efforts. Much of the work is being carried out by individual households, who now likely control a majority of planted productive forest land. Yet despite the strong role for smallholders, questions have been raised about the social benefits of their participation, and insufficient attention has been paid to whether these programs are truly aimed at restoration or more narrowly at plantation development only. This paper assesses several of Vietnam's recent tree-planting projects against the Society for Ecological Restoration's standards, particularly around social benefits, and concludes that Vietnam is failing on most measures, ranging from stakeholder engagement to natural capital benefits. Overall, smallholders mostly view the tree planting projects in terms of financial benefits from short rotation cycles for pulp and woodchip mills, which offer low value, few social benefits, and little ecological restoration potential. The paper argues that Vietnam would benefit from more engaged restoration activities that pay attention to social benefits for smallholders, ensuring more long-term sustainability for both people and forests.

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“…Forest restoration can make a valuable contribution to improving livelihood diversity, as natural and restored forests contribute to diet quality directly and via agropastoral and income pathways (Baudron et al, 2019). Large-scale forestry plantations, on the other hand, often compete with food production and other livelihood activities and reduce resilience by emphasizing a narrow bundle of market-related income streams (Ota et al, 2020). Large scale carbon forestry and bioenergy projects have been associated with land grabs that serve interests outside the affected area and lead to a loss of local access to natural resources and land (Lyons andWestoby, 2014, Busscher et al, 2020;Blum, 2020).…”

Section: Plantation Forestry Masquerading As Ecosystem Restorationmentioning

confidence: 99%

With Power Comes Responsibility – A Rangelands Perspective on Forest Landscape Restoration

Vetter

2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Reforestation and smallholder livelihoods in the humid tropics

Cited by 42 publications

References 162 publications

Mapping Potential Zones for Ecotourism Ecosystem Services as a Tool to Promote Landscape Resilience and Development in a Brazilian Municipality

Mapping Potential Zones for Ecotourism Ecosystem Services as a Tool to Promote Landscape Resilience and Development in a Brazilian Municipality

Assessing the Social Benefits of Tree Planting by Smallholders in Vietnam: Lessons for Large-Scale Reforestation Programs

With Power Comes Responsibility – A Rangelands Perspective on Forest Landscape Restoration

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