Land Restoration in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Overview of Recent, Ongoing and Planned Restoration Initiatives and Their Potential for Climate Change Mitigation

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cg.contributor.affiliationWageningen University & Researchen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Tropical Agricultureen
cg.contributor.affiliationCenter for International Forestry Researchen
cg.contributor.crpWater, Land and Ecosystems
cg.contributor.crpForests, Trees and Agroforestry
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.coverage.countryColombia
cg.coverage.countryPeru
cg.coverage.countryMexico
cg.coverage.countryChile
cg.coverage.countryGuatemala
cg.coverage.countryNicaragua
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2CO
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2PE
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2MX
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2CL
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2GT
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2NI
cg.coverage.regionCaribbean
cg.coverage.regionLatin AmericaSouth America
cg.coverage.regionCentral America
cg.creator.identifierRuben Coppus: 0000-0002-6536-6391
cg.creator.identifierLouis Verchot: 0000-0001-8309-6754
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/f10060510en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1999-4907en
cg.issue6en
cg.journalForestsen
cg.number510en
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ciatCLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATIONen
cg.subject.ciforFOREST AND LANDSCAPE RESTORATIONen
cg.volume10en
dc.contributor.authorRomijn, Erikaen
dc.contributor.authorCoppus, Rubenen
dc.contributor.authorSy, Veronique deen
dc.contributor.authorHerold, Martinen
dc.contributor.authorRomán Cuesta, Rosa Maríaen
dc.contributor.authorVerchot, Louis V.en
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-06T19:01:39Zen
dc.date.available2019-08-06T19:01:39Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/102459
dc.titleLand Restoration in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Overview of Recent, Ongoing and Planned Restoration Initiatives and Their Potential for Climate Change Mitigationen
dcterms.abstractLand degradation is a globally recognized problem and restoration of degraded land is currently high on the international agenda. Forest landscape restoration and other restorative ecosystem management activities are important measures that contribute towards reaching the objectives of the Bonn Challenge, which aims to restore 350 million hectares by 2030. In this context, many restoration projects are being planned and implemented in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). We present an overview of the location, goals and activities, and an estimated climate change mitigation potential of 154 recent, ongoing and planned restoration projects in LAC. Our analysis suggests that most projects are located in the humid tropics and less attention is paid to drylands. Increasing vegetation cover, biodiversity recovery and recovery of ecological processes are the most common goals. Restorative activities to fulfil these goals were diverse and were related to the type and source of funding that projects receive. For example, projects implemented through the Forest Investment Program (FIP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) generally rely on natural or assisted regeneration over large areas (>20,000 ha), whereas Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects establish forest plantations, often including exotic monocultures, in smaller project areas (<5000 ha). Projects that are specifically implemented within the scope of Initiative 20 × 20 and other local initiatives that target the local environmental problems, are more varied and rely on a wider portfolio of restorative activities, such as erosion control, exclusion of grazing and mixed plantations. These projects are usually implemented in smaller project areas (<5000 ha). All projects had the potential to contribute to climate change mitigation by storing additional forest aboveground biomass through natural regeneration, assisted regeneration or establishing a plantation. Further analysis of the implemented activities is an important next step to investigate their effectiveness in terms of goals achieved under Initiative 20 × 20 and the Bonn Challenge. This would provide information for future restoration projects and upscaling of restorative activities in a wider area.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.available2019-06-15
dcterms.bibliographicCitationRomijn, E., Coppus, R., De Sy, V., Herold, M., Roman-Cuesta, R. M., & Verchot, L. (2019). Land Restoration in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Overview of Recent, Ongoing and Planned Restoration Initiatives and Their Potential for Climate Change Mitigation. Forests, 10(6), 510. https://doi.org/10.3390/f10060510en
dcterms.issued2019-06
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherMDPIen
dcterms.replaceshttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/111825en
dcterms.subjectclimate change mitigationen
dcterms.subjectforestsen
dcterms.subjectbiomassen
dcterms.subjectlatin americaen
dcterms.subjectland degradationen
dcterms.subjectlandscapeen
dcterms.subjectforestryen
dcterms.subjectecological restorationen
dcterms.subjectforest rehabilitationen
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen
dcterms.subjectmitigationen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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