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| Article Title | People-Centric Nature-Based Land Restoration through Agroforestry: A Typology | | Author | Meine van Noordwijk, Vincent Gitz, Peter A Minang, Sonya Dewi, Beria Leimona, Lalisa Duguma, Nathanaël Pingault and Alexandre Meybeck | | Year | 2020 | | Journal Title | Land | | Volume | 9 | | Issue | 251 | | Pages | 1-29 | | Call Number | JA00753-20 |
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| Restoration depends on purpose and context. At the core it entails innovation to halt ongoing and reverse past degradation. It aims for increased functionality, not necessarily recovering past system states.Location-specific interventions in social-ecological systems reducingproximatepressures, needto synergize with transforming generic drivers of unsustainable land use. After reviewing pantropical international research on forests, trees, and agroforestry, we developed an options-by-context typology. Four intensities of land restoration interact: R.I. Ecological intensification within a land use system, R.II. Recovery/regeneration, within a local social-ecological system, R.III. Reparation/recuperation, requiring a national policy context, R.IV. Remediation, requiring international support and investment. Relevant interventions start from core values of human identity while addressing five potential bottlenecks: Rights, Know-how, Markets (inputs, outputs, credit), Local Ecosystem Services (including water, agrobiodiversity, micro/mesoclimate) and Teleconnections (global climate change, biodiversity). Six stages of forest transition (from closed old-growth forest to open-field agriculture and re-treed (peri)urban landscapes) can contextualize interventions, with six special places: water towers, riparian zone and wetlands, peat landscapes, small islands and mangroves, transport infrastructure, and mining scars. The typology can help to link knowledge with action in people-centric restoration in which external stakeholders coinvest, reflecting shared responsibility for historical degradation and benefits from environmental stewardship |
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