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Land Restoration in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Overview of Recent, Ongoing and Planned Restoration Initiatives and Their Potential for Climate Change Mitigation

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Title Land Restoration in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Overview of Recent, Ongoing and Planned Restoration Initiatives and Their Potential for Climate Change Mitigation
 
Creator Romijn, Erika
Coppus, Ruben
Sy, Veronique de
Herold, Martin
Román Cuesta, Rosa María
Verchot, Louis V.
 
Subject climate change mitigation
forests
biomass
latin america
land degradation
landscape
forestry
 
Description Land degradation is a globally recognized problem and restoration of degraded land is currently high on the international agenda. Forest landscape restoration and other restorative ecosystem management activities are important measures that contribute towards reaching the objectives of the Bonn Challenge, which aims to restore 350 million hectares by 2030. In this context, many restoration projects are being planned and implemented in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). We present an overview of the location, goals and activities, and an estimated climate change mitigation potential of 154 recent, ongoing and planned restoration projects in LAC. Our analysis suggests that most projects are located in the humid tropics and less attention is paid to drylands. Increasing vegetation cover, biodiversity recovery and recovery of ecological processes are the most common goals. Restorative activities to fulfil these goals were diverse and were related to the type and source of funding that projects receive. For example, projects implemented through the Forest Investment Program (FIP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) generally rely on natural or assisted regeneration over large areas (>20,000 ha), whereas Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects establish forest plantations, often including exotic monocultures, in smaller project areas (
 
Date 2019-06
2019-08-06T19:01:39Z
2019-08-06T19:01:39Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Romijn, Erika; Coppus, Ruben; De Sy, Veronoque; Herold, Martin; Roman-Cuesta, Rosa Maria & Verchot, Louis. (2019). Land Restoration in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Overview of Recent, Ongoing and Planned Restoration Initiatives and Their Potential for Climate Change Mitigation. Forests, 10, 510
1999-4907
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/102459
https://doi.org/10.3390/f10060510
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 510
 
Publisher MDPI