Discussion forums

World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

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There is growing recognition of the potential for jointly achieving climate change mitigation and adaptation through land management. Landscape approaches to enhancing multi-functionality have been identified as a promising pathway to synergies between mitigation and adaptation besides helping achieve other livelihood needs through ecosystem services and functions provision. This discussion forum explores what is known and gaps in understanding of synergies and trade-offs. It also explores the necessary enabling conditions that help promote synergies in order to realize the benefits of the approach. We build on an ex-post analysis of the Ngitili systems in Tanzania and selected examples from agroforestry practices to inform the discussion.

Key questions the Discussion Forum will address:

1. What are the main trade-offs and synergies between adaptation and mitigation at landscape level and how do they vary from one context to another?
2. What are the key lessons from research and implementation of landscape approaches that are relevant for enhancing synergies and managing trade-offs between mitigation and adaptation?
3. What are the necessary enabling conditions for incentivizing and operationalizing synergies between mitigation and adaptation at landscape level?

Background reading:

1. Klein RJT, Huq S, Denton F, Downing TE, Richels RG, Robinson JB, Toth FL (2007) Inter-relationships between adaptation and mitigation. In: Parry ML, Canziani OF, Palutikof JP, Linden PJvd, Hanson CE (eds) Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp 745-777.
2. Locatelli B, Evans V, Wardell A, Andrade A, Vignola R (2011) Forests and Climate Change in Latin America: Linking Adaptation and Mitigation. Forests 2:431 – 450
3. Verchot LV, van Noordwijk M, Kandji S, Tomich T, Ong C, Albrecht A, Mackensen J, Bantilan C, Anupama KV, Palm C (2007) Climate change: linking adaptation and mitigation through agroforestry. Mitig Adapt Strat Glob Change 12: 901-918.
4. Tol, R.S.J., 2005. Adaptation and mitigation: trade-offs in substance and methods. Environ. Sci. Policy 8, 572–578.
5. WilBanks TJ, Sathaye J (2007) Integrating mitigation and adaptation as a response to climate change. A synthesis. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 12: 957-962 12 (5):957 – 962
6. Harvey, C.A., M. Chacon, C. Donatti, E, Garen, L. Hannah, A. Andrade, L. Bede, D. Brown, A. Calle, J. Chara, C. Celment, E. Gray, M.H. Hoang, P. A. Minang, A.M. Rodriguez, C. Seeberg-Elverfeldt, B. Semroc, S. Shames, S. Smuckler, E. Somarriba, E. Torquebiau, J. van Etten and E. Wollenberg (2013). Climate-smart landscapes: Opportunies and challenges for integrating adaptation and mitigation in tropical agricultural landscapes. Conservation Letters doi: 10.1111/conl.12066

Keynote Speaker

• Lalisa Duguma

  Postdoctoral Fellow, the ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins and World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi Kenya

Speakers

• Bruno Locatelli

  Scientist, Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD) and Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

• Emmanuel Torquebiau

  Climate Change Correspondent, the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), Montpellier, France

• Ademola Braimoh

  Senior Natural Resources Management Specialist, the Agriculture and Environmental Services (AES) Department, the World Bank

Moderator

• Henry Neufeldt

  Head of the Climate Change Unit at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya