ASB poster presented at Forest Day 4 in Cancún, Mexico

1. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation through
Alternative Land-uses in Rainforests of the Tropics
Florence Bernard1, Robin Mathews2, Peter Minang1
1 ASB Partnership, Nairobi, Kenya; A.Minang@cgiar.org
2 Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom; r.matthews@macaulay.ac.uk
The REDD-ALERT project is an FP7 EU project led by the Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen and involves 12 partner institutions from EU and
tropical countries, within the ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins. The project runs from 2010 to 2012.
Overall goal of the project Objectives of the REDD-ALERT project
To provide a unique link between international policy-makers • Understanding the drivers of deforestation and degradation
and stakeholders on the ground who need to be encouraged to and the set of conditions that reverse deforestation trends
slow deforestation rates in tropical landscapes and, hence, and enhance carbon stocking;
reduce greenhouse gas emissions. To do so, REDD-ALERT is • Quantifying rates of forest conversion and change in carbon
generating data in four countries (Indonesia, Peru, Vietnam, stocks across forest-agriculture conversions;
Cameroon) regarding the drivers of land use change, carbon
stocks and changes, policy options, and local stakeholder • Improving accounting methods of GHG emissions from land
perspectives and preferences. use change in land uses at tropical forest margins;
• Identifying and assessing viable policy options addressing
the drivers of deforestation
Linking global policy with local incentives • Analysing local impacts of potential international climate
for reducing GhG from deforestation change policies on GHG emissions, land use and livelihoods,
• Using negotiation support tools with stakeholders to
explore options for post-2012 climate agreements;
Forest transition in our 4 benchmark sites
Deforestation is not a homogenous process throughout the tropics.
Understanding ‘pathways of land change’ – particular chains of Partners
events and sequences of causes and effects leading to specific land-
• Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, United Kingdom
cover changes – is crucial for designing appropriate policy
• Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
interventions.
• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Cameroon Benchmark sites • Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany
• World Agroforestry Centre, Kenya
Forest cover (%)
• Centre for International Forestry Research, Indonesia
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Indonesia, Peru • International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria
• Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Columbia
• Indonesian Soils Research Institute, Indonesia
Vietnam • Research Centre for Forest Ecology and Environment, Vietnam
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• Institut de Recherche Agricole pour le Développement,
Cameroon
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Undisturbed Forest Forest, Forest, agricultural
• Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Extension Agraria, Peru
forests frontiers agricultural mosaics, plantations
mosaics
(adapted from Angelsen, 2007)
time Funded under EU Framework 7
Dotted arrows with question-marks indicate possible deviations from this trend For more information www.redd-alert.eu/