Presentation on Tree Diversity Day, 11 October 2012, at the 11th CBD Conference of Parties in Hyderabad, India

1. Reducing tropical forest loss through
multiple-use?
Manuel R. Guariguata

2. 20
years
ago
in
Rio…
“Forest
resources
and
forest
lands
should
be
sustainably
managed
to
meet
the
social,
economic,
ecological,
cultural
and
spiritual
needs
of
present
and
future
genera8ons.
These
needs
are
for
forest
products
and
services,
such
as
wood
and
wood
products,
water,
food,
fodder,
medicine,
fuel,
shelter,
employment,
recrea8on,
habitats
for
wildlife,
landscape
diversity,
carbon
sinks
and
reservoirs,
and
for
other
forest
products.”

3. • Food
supplies
will
expand
70
%
by
2050
and
demand
for
wood
and
fiber
will
concurrently
increase
• How
can
we
sustain
enough
produc8ve
forest
and
land
available
for
agriculture
to
meet
current
demands
without
further
forest
conversion?
• Keeping
space
for
produc8ve
forests
will
require
innova8on
in
forestry
prac8ces
while
mee8ng
ever-­‐growing
societal
needs

4. How are forests being used?
Strict protection Multiple use Indigenous territories
(IUCN I-IV) (IUCN V-VI)
Nelson
and
Chomitz
(2011)

5. Who owns the forest?
Sunderlin
et
al.
2008

6. How do deforestation and degradation
fit in the current scenario?
• In
La8n
America
and
Asia,
strict
forest
protec8on
substan8ally
reduced
fire
incidence
but
mul8-­‐use
areas
were
even
more
effec8ve
• Across
the
tropics,
deforesta8on
rates
in
protected
areas
were
significantly
larger
than
in
mul8-­‐use
protected
areas
Nelson
and
Chomitz
2011;
Porter-­‐Bolland
et
al.
2012

7. Multi-use: challenges
• Technical
and
managerial
capaci8es
differ
for
different
forest
products
and
market
opportuni8es
• Local
communi8es
and
small-­‐scale
operators
struggle
to
adjust
their
prac8ces
to
meet
official
regula8ons—which
in
turn
show
li]le
harmoniza8on
for
mul8ple
objec8ves
• Spa8al
planning
for
long
term
produc8on
is
usually
disregarded—par8cularly
for
mul8ple
uses
and
mul8ple
views
• Ossified
tropical
forestry
curricula

8. In
Guatemala,
ten
years
a`er
the
implementa8on
of
community
forest
concessions,
those
with
the
highest
degree
of
product
diversifica8on
and
social
organiza8on
are
be]er
able
to
buffer
economic
uncertainty
Radachowsky
et
al.
2012

9. In
Peru,
segrega8on
of
produc8on
objec8ves
was
not
effec8ve

10. Policy dimensions
Aichi
Target
5:
Rate
of
loss
of
all
natural
habitats,
including
forests,
is
at
least
halved
…and
degrada8on
and
fragmenta8on
is
significantly
reduced
Aichi
Target
11:
Terrestrial
areas
are
conserved…and
integrated
into
the
wider
landscapes
and
seascapes
• Management
tradeoffs
are
complex
and
acute
in
mul8ple
use
systems
• Social
learning
and
mul8-­‐stakeholder
dialogue
is
essen8al
• Spa8al
approaches
for
planning