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Landscape intensification and restoration in Central America: Impacts on soil C dynamics Frederic Gay , Rolando Cerda, Miguel Cifuentes, Laurène Feintrenie, Bryan Finegan , Grégoire Leclerc, Marie-AngeNgo Bieng, Roberto Quiroz, Eduardo Somarriba and Muhammad Ibrahim CIRCASA 1st annual meeting – Cali, 6-8 February 2019 1

CIRAD – CATIE partnership - More than 30 years of collaboration - 9 CIRAD’s researchers permanently posted at CATIE’s headquarters in Turrialba - A collaborative platform for research and capacity building on AgroForestry System (PCP AFS-PC) CIRCASA 1st annual meeting – Cali, 6-8 February 2019 2

Agri ricultural and Forest la lands in in Central America Agricultural land (% total land) Forest land (% total land) CIRCASA 1st annual meeting – Cali, 6-8 February 2019 3 Source: Cutz et al., 2016)

Main agricultural la land uses in in CA 10 to 20% of agricultural lands Per ermanent cr crops (mainly Ho Homegardens cof offee/cocoa AFS) Annual and fru fruit cr crops Pastu tures

Central America and mitigation of CC…. Los Paisajes Climáticamente inteligentes en América Central INDC : Compromiso de reducción de los GHG que GHG : porcentaje de emisiones del país con cada país manifiesta en su CND, incondicionado y respecto al total mundial condicionado a apoyo internacional.

… necessary ry adptation to CC… Cambios de id idoneid idad a 2050

And concerns about deforestation and la land degradation Nic icaragua Hond onduras, Gua uatemala la, El El Salv alvador CIRCASA 1st annual meeting – Cali, 6-8 February 2019 7

Ext xtensive kn knoweld ldge on C dyn ynamics in in AFS and Forest la lands in in CA CIRCASA 1st annual meeting – Cali, 6-8 February 2019 8

Long-term experiment CIRCASA 1st annual meeting – Cali, 6-8 February 2019 9

The “Coffee - Flux Collaborative Observatory”: measuring and modeling carbon, nutrients, water and sediment Ecosystem Services in a coffee agroforestry watershed (Costa Rica). CIRCASA 1st annual meeting – Cali, 6-8 February 2019 10

La Land use change: example of f mangroves in in Costa Ric ica 1000 • 2431 ha lost in Nicoya area Carbono ecositema (3m; MgC/ha) • 376 MgC/ha (1 m depth) 800 92% reduction on =28% national GHG emissions average 600 • 13930 ha lost at the national 400 level (1992-2014) 200 0 Manglares Camaroneras Salinera Cifuentes et al. (2014)

What we pla lan to do Databases of soil carbon content in Central America and Caribean: • Cocoa AF: > 200 plots in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala • Coffee AF: 120 plots in Costa Rica • Coffee AF: Aquiares farm and coffee agroforestry essays in Turrialba and Nicaragua • >400 plots of different land uses in the sentinel landscape Nicaragua-Honduras: homegardens, pastures, anual crops, coffee and cocoa • 140 plots in Dominican Republic: cocoa, coffee, pastures, avocado, coconut, mango • SOC (0-30cm) degraded and secondary forests in Costa Rica CIRCASA 1st annual meeting – Cali, 6-8 February 2019 12

What we pla lan to do Management of Landscape intensification: the Agrif riforl rlac proposal Involucrar Apoyo a la gobernanza actores y economía sostenible Diseñar paisajes Evaluar y optimizar sostenibles y climáticamente los rendimientos de los usos del suelo inteligentes CIRCASA 1st annual meeting – Cali, 6-8 February 2019 13

What we pla lan to do Landscape restoration Climate-smart, socially inclusive forest landscape restoration in tropical America Work package 3: Restoring forest ecosystems and ecosystem services: spatial prioritization, planning and implementation: (CATIE, CIRAD). http://www.wri.org/applications/maps/flr-atlas/#

GRACIAS Frederic.gay@cirad.fr CIRCASA 1st annual meeting – Cali, 6-8 February 2019 15