GRF 2nd One Health Summit 2013: Presentation by David Skole, Michigian State University

1. Carbon, forests and livelihoods
Climate Change and Poverty:
Two problems, one intervention
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David Skole
Michigan State University
David Skole
Michigan Stat University
One Health Conference
Davos 2013
17-20 November

4. The Other Big Challenge: Rural Poverty
More than a billion people live in extreme poverty
surviving on less than $1 per day as subsistence
farmers.
Almost 3 billion live below the Ethical Poverty Line

5. Linking carbon and
development
The challenge: poverty alleviation and
environmental sustainability.
– …of which 1.0 billion live in rural areas
where their livelihoods depend on the
consumption and sale of natural
products.
– About two-thirds of the rural poor live in
ecologically vulnerable areas and
marginally productive landscapes.
– A significant share of the world’s poor
are small-hold farmers

6. Response: a single intervention:
Greener agriculture and forestry by enhancing
carbon stocks and sequestration of carbon…

7. Conserving and
Replanting Forests

8. Using Trees for Livelihoods
in Agro-Forestry

10. WEF potential: offsets & REDD

11. Agro-Forestry and Carbon
• Some estimates from international
organizations suggest there is a large amount
of carbon sequestration already occurring in
these managed landscapes (Verchot and Singh
2009).
• Agricultural land now accounts for over
double the area of forested land in Africa (FAO
2006), giving justification to the slogan
that, “the future of trees is on farms.”

12. Eddie,
An entrepreneur

13. In Kenya with

21. Poor adoption rates
• Although preferred for economic and
environmental benefits, not widely adopted
• The problem of delayed benefits
• The Carbon2Markets model
– Natural Products + carbon benefits and returns

23. Two Value Chains: Shea Nut Over Cassava
Butyrospermum parkii

24. South East Asia

25. • Inpang Network – Carbon Training

26. Carbon Bank project

28. Inpaeng Network as The King’s New Theory:
the Sufficiency Economy

34. Indigo dying

35. Natural Para Rubber Plantation
on Degraded Land

36. Para Rubber inter-cropped
with Sala fruit

38. Mixed natural and product species community forest

40. Natural forest assisted re-generation

41. Scientific Cooperation

46. Obstacles to implementation:
•Going to scale
•Lowering transaction costs
•Validation

51. Dewitt
Holt

53. Object detection analysis of individual tree crowns
(0.6 m PAN Quickbird image)

54. Tons of Carbon
27 ha
221.75 tC
8.21 tC/ha

55. Tons of Carbon
155 ha
1418.83 tC
9.15 tC/ha

57. Key element #6: Learning Management System

60. Conclusions
• Challenge or Opportunity: depends on how
we frame it
• Mitigation and Adaptation will be in large part
a land based endeavor
• Land as capital, agriculture and forests and
their ecosystem services as assets
• Integration of the “stovepipes” into a One
Health framework

61. Five Necessary Elements

62. Technical development

63. Scientific Cooperation

64. Partnerships with Governments

65. Engage Civil Society

66. Community Dialog

67. One Health

68. Thank You
The Carbon2Markets Project
Department of Forestry
Michigan State University