How to describe land use & land cover in the context of REDD+...Meine van Noordwijk, Acknowledging: Sonya Dewi, Andree Ekadinata, Atiek Widayati, Valentina Robiglio, Doug White & Glen

How to describe land use & land cover in the context of REDD+

Meine van Noordwijk, Acknowledging: Sonya Dewi, Andree Ekadinata, Atiek Widayati, Valentina Robiglio, Doug White & Glen Hyman

Introduction to the Opportunity Costs of REDD+ Training Manual BangkokMonday 25 April 2011 16:45 - 17:30

How to describe land use & land cover in the context of REDD+

What is a forest?What is not a forest?What might still be called a forest?What might in future become a forest?What has been a forest?What has not been a forest?

Some deceptively simple questions…

that may influence REDD+$$s…

Forest domain

53% Other + disputed

forest lands

10% State Forest

National Park

Protected Area

Restoration conces-sion

Community-forest

Village forest

Benefit-sharing

Logging concession

Plantation contract

Mixed agroforest, private forests,

community landscapes with

trees

1. By ecosys- 2. By vegetation 3. By land use 4. By ‘owner’ 5. By ‘co-managementtem service & its C-stocks category regime’

Non-forest land uses (APL)

Conservation + watershed protection forest

Production forest

Convertible forest

Official conversion from forest to non-forest land status: ‘planned deforestation’

Rights to define forest ~ 5 different ways of classifying forest:

Emis-sion GHG

C capture

English Thai Khmer Lao Vietnam BahasaIndonesia

Forest

Woodland

Agroforest

Secondaryforest

Old growthforest

Plantation

Tree

Palm

Rubber

Two-by-two any

part of the triangle

makes sense…

Publicly available images, as ranked by GOOGLE…







BATANG TORU• Multifunctional landscape: forest-

agroforest- agriculture gradient

Forest without

trees

Non-forest without trees

Trees outside forest

Forest with trees

Forest definition based on institutions & intent

Forest definition based on X% canopy cover

Including e.g. agroforests, oil palm plantation

Clearfelling/ re-plant is accep-ted as forest; no time-limit on ‘replant’

English Thai Khmer Lao Vietnam BahasaIndonesia

Forest

Woodland

Agroforest

Secondaryforest

Old growthforest

Plantation

Tree

Palm

Rubber

In tegalog there

is only one word

(gubat) to

describe all

types of woody

vegetation

In Japanese

‘forest’ implies

3+2 times the

symbol of ‘tree’,

others 3, 2 or 1

times…

How do forest, plantation, agroforest and agroforestry

terms translate across some of the languages in Asia?

Source: participants in WB/FCPF OpCost training RECOFTC, Bangkok, April 2011

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How to describe land use & land cover in the context of REDD+...Meine van Noordwijk, Acknowledging: Sonya Dewi, Andree Ekadinata, Atiek Widayati, Valentina Robiglio, Doug White & Glen