On 15th and 16th September, the UK’s Department for International Development and The Prince’s Rainforests Project convened a meeting on “REDD+ and Agricultural Drivers of Deforestation: Informing REDD+ Strategies and Programmes”.
Using a range of current proposals as a template, this meeting provided an opportunity for a number of critical stakeholders to help define a variety of ways by which the agriculture sector can be constructively linked to REDD+ strategies and policies.
The outcomes of the meeting are summarised here.
The summaries of the proposals can be found here
Presentations made by participants can be found below:
Thursday 15th September – Morning session – Introductary presentation
Agricultural Commodity Sustainability Roundtables Overview (Dawn Robinson, Proforest Inititative)
Thursday 15th September – Morning session – Project Presentations:
Project Potico - Expanding palm oil onto degraded lands in Indonesia (Craig Hanson & Moray McLeish, WRI)
Project SHARP - Increasing palm oil smallholder yield productivity (Puvan Selvanathan, Sime Darby)
Sustainable Cattle Working Group (Eduardo Bastos, Dow)
Climate-Smart Agricultural Finance Facility: Linking increases in agricultural productivity and REDD+ in Ghana and Ethiopia (Michael Jenkins, Rebecca Asare & Charlotte Streck, NCRC & Forest Trends)
Large Scale Agriculture Intensification and Ecological Restoration of the Atlantic Rainforest (Bernardo Strassburg & Agnieszka Latawiec, Instituto GAEA)
Linking RTRS, REDD+ and reforestation on soy farms (Juliana Lopes and Jacques Vaney, Grupo A Maggi)
Thursday 15th September – Afternoon session presentations:
Building Bridges Between Commodity Roundtables and REDD+ (Dan Nepstad & Tracy Johns, IPAM)
Piloting Commodity Business Support Centres (CBSCs) in Soy, Palm Oil and Sugar Cane (Jan Marteen Dros, Solidaridad)
Financial Mechanisms for Linking Smallholders and Medium-scale farmers in RTRS, RSPO and Bonsucro with REDD+ (David Tepper, Forest Trends)
Jurisdictional-level pilot activities to link GCF state REDD plans with the Drivers of Deforestation (William Boyd, GCF)
RSPO Africa Training and Capacity Building Programme (Abraham Baffoe, Proforest Initiative)
Friday 16th September: Plenary session
Highlights of “The Role of Commodity Roundtables & Avoided Forest Conversioni in Subnational REDD+” meeting (Nathalie Walker, National Wildlife Federation)
Mitigation at the Farm-Forest Frontier: LInking Intensification and Institutions (Lini Wollenberg, CCAFS)
For any enquiries please contact Andreanne Grimard – andreanne.grimard@royal.gsx.gov.uk
