9. Agriculture, Forestry, Land Use emissions
IPCC AR6 (2014)
• ¼ of global
emissions!
• Cheap /
negative cost
to drive to 0 !
• Can act as a
net sink !
13. Cost of land degradation
• ELD estimate:
–$ 10.6 tn p.a. !
–17% of global GDP !
• Consensus that the costs are highest in arid
semi-aird and sub-humid regions of Sub-
Saharan Africa
19. These ca. 10 million hectares of new agroforest
parklands are yielding ca. 1,000,000 tonnes more
than before.
(Reij, 2012; Tappan, 2017)
Zinder today
20. What explains this?
Is it the chemicals?
Is it the tractors?
Is it the money?
No.
It’s just the management
21. • Cost of restoration in Niger: < 20 $/ Ha !
–Scaling-up FMNR in Maradi:$ 14/Ha.
–Annual labor costs low
Place & Binam (2013)
And that means it can be cheap. Dirt cheap.
23. Smallholders.
“Asia’s post-war miracle economies
emerged by following a recipe with just
three ingredients: land reform; export-
led, state-backed manufacturing; and
financial repression.
The process began with the ousting of
the landlords. Feudal estates were
broken up and divided among small
farmers, who also received cheap credit
and valuable advice.
Smallholder farming requires
“grotesque” amounts of labour. But that
is a good thing, because countries as
poor as Taiwan or South Korea were in
the 1950s have labour—and only
labour—in abundance."
-- The Economist,
July 2013
The same applies to today's LDCs.
24. FAO, State of Food and Agriculture 2014
Selected yields by farm size
Smallest ¼ of all farms
Largest ¼ of all farms
25. Trust and good governance
Imagination, demonstration,
belief…
And governance !
32. Densidade:
UD1: 81 pl/hectare
UD2 e Conv: 99 plantas/hectare
*
*
98%
125%
27%
14%
71%
149%
99%
49%
0,0
2,0
4,0
6,0
8,0
10,0
12,0
14,0
2011 2012 2013 2014
SAF Biodiverso UD1 SAF Biodiverso UD3
ProduçãodoDendê(ton/hectare)
PROJETO SAF DENDÊ
Produtividade de Dendê
Resultado esperado
t/ha(FFB)
Year 4 (2011) Year 5 (2012) Year 6 (2013) Year 7 (2014)
Castellani et al 2014, Internal Report
Oil palm agroforestry
Plot 1 (81 pl/ha)
)
Oil palm agroforestry
Plot 2 (99 pl/ha)
Monocrop oil palm*
(considering 99 pl/ha)
*Average yields at the same age in the same region according to Perez et al. 2007
Viabilidade de extração de óleo de dendê no Estado do Pará. Viçosa, UFV. 2007.
http://portal.mda.gov.br/portal/saf/arquivos/view/biodisel/18_-_Dende.pdf
Oil palm agroforestry
33. 13
Farmer plot management Sampling
Frequency
Mean
(Kg/Ha)
Standard
error
Maize without fertiliser 36 1322 220.33
Maize with fertiliser 213 1736 118.95
Maize with fertiliser trees 72 3053 359.8
Maize with fertiliser trees & fertiliser 135 3071 264.31
2009/2010 season; data from 6 Malawian districts
Mwalwanda, A.B., O. Ajayi, F.K. Akinnifesi, T. Beedy, Sileshi G, and G. Chiundu 2010
Malawi agroforestry
Second, for almost as many months, its ground is bare. If the wind blows, it looks like this.
Aberdeen, South Africa – 4x more livestock on the left
900 HHS, 1350 youths came back over a few years. Private sector growth.
Gergea water table. Water table went up from -15 m to -1m. They give 2 months/yr.
… this astonishing graph from the FAO. They found that no matter which crop or which country you look at, the smallest quartile of farms always outperforms the largest quartile of farms, sometimes by huge amounts.
The reason is simple. Small farmers already use the most advanced precision agriculture tool available:
Gergea water table. Water table went up from -15 m to -1m. They give 2 months/yr.
Oil palm agroforestry in Brazil
Walnut and what agroforestry in France
One of the world’s largest agroforestry systems: reindeer in the northern taiga. The animals’ dejections fertiise the trees, whose protection helps fodder grow.