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People-Centric Nature-Based Land Restoration through Agroforestry: A Typology

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Title People-Centric Nature-Based Land Restoration through Agroforestry: A Typology
 
Creator Noordwijk, M. van
Gitz, V.
Minang, P.A.
Dewi, S.
Leimona, B.
Duguma, L.
Pingaut, N.
Meybeck, A.
 
Subject ecosystem services
landscape
ecological restoration
tree planting
 
Description Restoration depends on purpose and context. At the core it entails innovation to halt ongoing and reverse past degradation. It aims for increased functionality, not necessarily recovering past system states. Location-specific interventions in social-ecological systems reducing proximate pressures, need to synergize with transforming generic drivers of unsustainable land use. After reviewing pantropical international research on forests, trees, and agroforestry, we developed an options-by-context typology. Four intensities of land restoration interact: R.I. Ecological intensification within a land use system, R.II. Recovery/regeneration, within a local social-ecological system, R.III. Reparation/recuperation, requiring a national policy context, R.IV. Remediation, requiring international support and investment. Relevant interventions start from core values of human identity while addressing five potential bottlenecks: Rights, Know-how, Markets (inputs, outputs, credit), Local Ecosystem Services (including water, agrobiodiversity, micro/mesoclimate) and Teleconnections (global climate change, biodiversity). Six stages of forest transition (from closed old-growth forest to open-field agriculture and re-treed (peri)urban landscapes) can contextualize interventions, with six special places: water towers, riparian zone and wetlands, peat landscapes, small islands and mangroves, transport infrastructure, and mining scars. The typology can help to link knowledge with action in people-centric restoration in which external stakeholders coinvest, reflecting shared responsibility for historical degradation and benefits from environmental stewardship.
 
Date 2020-07-29
2021-03-08T08:33:24Z
2021-03-08T08:33:24Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier van Noordwijk, M., Gitz, V., Minang, P.A., Dewi, S., Leimona, B., Duguma, L., Pingaut, N., Meybeck, A. 2020. People-Centric Nature-Based Land Restoration through Agroforestry: A Typology. Land, 9 (8): 251. https://doi.org/10.3390/land9080251
2073-445X
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/112471
https://www.cifor.org/library/7709
https://doi.org/10.3390/land9080251
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Publisher MDPI AG