Forests and Trees - cgiar
Research Program on
Forests, Trees, and Agroforestry
Forests, Trees, and Agroforestry More than a billion of the world’s poorest people rely on forests and trees for their livelihoods from products such as timber, fuelwood, food, medicines and non-tree forest products. Better management and governance can increase this figure and foster sustainable incomes for generations.
This program will: • Reduce deforestation and forest degradation (thus mitigate climate change) • Conserve forest biodiversity • Increase the productivity and value of forests, trees, and agroforestry • Help forest-dependent communities adapt to climate change • Improve the governance and management of forests, trees, and agroforestry.
Research Forests, Trees, and Agroforestry is built on a simple conceptual framework – the forest and land use transition curve – and is organized around five tightly interwoven research components (see figure).
Pristine Logged forest over forest
Smallholder production C1 systems & markets & conservation C2 Management of forest and tree resources Environmental services & C3 landscape management Climate change adaptation
C4 & mitigation
Impacts of trade & investment C5 on forest and people
Partners CIFOR
Re/Agroforestation
Deforestration
Degradation
C stocks, Mg/ha
Forest & tree cover transition
Secondary & Annual agro-forest crops
Grass land
Mosaic landscape with agroforestry, plantations, crop fields, woodlots
Forests, Trees, and Agroforestry
Forests, Trees, and Agroforestry More than a billion of the world’s poorest people rely on forests and trees for their livelihoods from products such as timber, fuelwood, food, medicines and non-tree forest products. Better management and governance can increase this figure and foster sustainable incomes for generations.
This program will: • Reduce deforestation and forest degradation (thus mitigate climate change) • Conserve forest biodiversity • Increase the productivity and value of forests, trees, and agroforestry • Help forest-dependent communities adapt to climate change • Improve the governance and management of forests, trees, and agroforestry.
Research Forests, Trees, and Agroforestry is built on a simple conceptual framework – the forest and land use transition curve – and is organized around five tightly interwoven research components (see figure).
Pristine Logged forest over forest
Smallholder production C1 systems & markets & conservation C2 Management of forest and tree resources Environmental services & C3 landscape management Climate change adaptation
C4 & mitigation
Impacts of trade & investment C5 on forest and people
Partners CIFOR
Re/Agroforestation
Deforestration
Degradation
C stocks, Mg/ha
Forest & tree cover transition
Secondary & Annual agro-forest crops
Grass land
Mosaic landscape with agroforestry, plantations, crop fields, woodlots
