Scaling smallholder tree-based systems for resilience and carbon removals
The multiple crises facing the world, including deforestation and biodiversity loss, climate change, broken food systems, unsustainable value and supply chains, and extreme inequalities, have put agroforestry on the top of most consensus lists of how to successfully combat multiple in cost-effectively and in an integrated way. Though an old practice, agroforestry faces a future and urgent demand for expansion to counter the negative impacts of mal-adapted land management, especially through poor agricultural practices. This session will explore the potential of agroforestry technologies in enhancing small-holder farmers’ adaptation and promoting ecological and livelihood resilience, in addition to meeting national mitigation goals on carbon remaoval as outlined in the country specific NDC documents. It brings together experts from Asia and Africa to share their experiences and also allows the audience to engage with the experts through questions and answers.
Agenda
Opening remarks and introducing presenters
Moderator
Setting the scene
Éliane Ubalijoro
Planning tree-based restoration programmes at scale: What to Plant, where and why?
Abi Tamim Vanak
Agroforestry and performance-based financing– case of Cocoa in the frontiers of community forests in Cameroon
Divine Foundjem-Tita
Policy barriers and enablers to enhance agroforestry in smallholder farmers through TOFI expansion in India
Anuja Malhotra
Gambia’s experience on large-scale ecosystems-based adaptation
Malanding S. Jaiteh
Agroforestry as ultimate solution– why collective scaling is key for climate action?
Chandrashekhar Biradar
Q&A (discussions)
Moderator
Closing remarks
Moderator
