Leveraging agricultural value chains to enhance tropical tree cover and slow deforestation (leaves): Synthesis report

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Nepstad, Daniel
Lovett, Peter
Irawan, Silvia
Watts, John
Pezo Quevedo, Danilo A.
Somarriba, Eduardo
Shimada, Joao
Nsuwa Cudjoe, Dora
Fernandes, Erick C.M.
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Slowing the degradation and clearing of tropical forests and
increasing tree cover in agricultural and livestock grazing
systems could become a critical part of the global solution
to climate change. To realize this potential, improvements in
crop and livestock yields must be achieved to reconcile the
expansion of forest and tree cover with the growing global
demand for food, feed, and fiber from the tropics.
The Leveraging Agricultural Value Chains to Enhance
Tropical Tree Cover and Slow Deforestation (LEAVES)
program, led by the World Bank Group and financed
by the Program on Forests (PROFOR) has conducted
agricultural commodity case studies involving beef, cocoa,
coffee, oil palm, shea butter and soybean to identify key
recommendations and lessons that can help the World
Bank Group and others realize the potential of reducing
deforestation and enhancing tree cover in agricultural
landscapes. This Synthesis summarizes the key findings of
these case studies.
The case studies point to both the positive impacts
and the limitations of prevailing international strategies
such as REDD+, voluntary certification of sustainablyproduced
agricultural and forestry commodities, corporate
deforestation pledges, and payment for ecosystems /
environmental1 services. Not one of these mechanisms
by itself can drive the forest-friendly and tree cover
enhancement transformation in tropical production systems
that is needed.
A new LEAVES paradigm focuses on tropical forest regions
and the innovators among governments, farmers, villagers,
researchers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and
agribusiness companies that are finding local solutions and
opportunistically harnessing relevant international strategies
and programs. This new paradigm is informed by the
following six case studies.
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