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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

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• More than 30 years of

collaboration

• 9 CIRAD’s researchers

permanently posted at CATIE’s headquarters in Turrialba

CIRAD – CATIE partnership

• A collaborative platform for

research and capacity building on AgroForestry System (PCP AFS-PC)

Agri ricultural and Forest la lands in in Central America

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Agricultural land (% total land)

Source: Cutz et al., 2016)

Forest land (% total land)

Ho Homegardens

Main agricultural la land uses in in CA

Per ermanent cr crops (mainly cof

• ffee/cocoa AFS)

Pastu tures Annual and fru fruit cr crops

10 to 20% of agricultural lands

Los Paisajes Climáticamente inteligentes en América Central

GHG: porcentaje de emisiones del país con respecto al total mundial INDC: Compromiso de reducción de los GHG que cada país manifiesta en su CND, incondicionado y condicionado a apoyo internacional.

Central America and mitigation of CC….

…necessary ry adptation to CC…

Cambios de id idoneid idad a 2050

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Nic icaragua

Hond

• nduras,

Gua uatemala la, El El Salv alvador

And concerns about deforestation and la land degradation

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Ext xtensive kn knoweld ldge on C dyn ynamics in in AFS and Forest la lands in in CA

Long-term experiment

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The “Coffee-Flux Collaborative Observatory”: measuring and modeling carbon, nutrients, water and sediment Ecosystem Services in a coffee agroforestry watershed (Costa Rica).

La Land use change: example of f mangroves in in Costa Ric ica

Cifuentes et al. (2014)

200 400 600 800 1000

Manglares Camaroneras Salinera

Carbono ecositema (3m; MgC/ha)

92% reduction on average

• 2431 ha lost in Nicoya area
• 376 MgC/ha (1 m depth)

=28% national GHG emissions

• 13930 ha lost at the national

level (1992-2014)

Databases of soil carbon content in Central America and Caribean:

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• 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

What we pla lan to do

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What we pla lan to do

Management of Landscape intensification: the Agrif riforl rlac proposal

Involucrar actores Apoyo a la gobernanza y economía sostenible Evaluar y optimizar los rendimientos de los usos del suelo Diseñar paisajes sostenibles y climáticamente inteligentes

What we pla lan to do

Landscape restoration

http://www.wri.org/applications/maps/flr-atlas/#

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).

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GRACIAS

Frederic.gay@cirad.fr