Description

From 2017 to 2023 IIASA and ICRAF collaborated to implement the RESTORE+ project. This project aimed to deliver mapping technologies to help key actors in Brazil and Indonesia access high-quality data in planning, mobilizing funds, and implementing efforts to avoid deforestation and restore degraded forests and landscapes. Although crucial for many activities, the availability and accessibility of map data are often limited. This limitation hampers detailed planning of forest and landscape restoration, as well as mobilization of financial and institutional resources that require baseline setting and monitoring of results. In the context of avoiding deforestation, data limitation also results in limited ability to participate in markets that incentivize/enforce sustainable practices. Additionally, the project derived insights for national policies and long-term strategies to further demonstrate the multiplier effect of high-quality map data towards increased capacity for delivering land use sustainability.

This new EPISTEM project is a continuation of RESTORE+. The EPISTEM project is based on a subset of activities of the project’s first phase implementation. The project focuses on improving accessibility and availability of high quality data for forest and landscape restoration, with the goal of generating an evolving and participatory information system to strengthen land use sustainability actors in Indonesia and beyond. IIASA and ICRAF collaborate to deliver mapping technologies to help key actors in Indonesia access high quality data in planning, mobilizing fund, and implementing efforts to avoid deforestation and restore degraded forests and landscapes.