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Indigenous Forest Management for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Northern La Paz, Bolivia

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Combination

Agriculture/fishery

Call 6

Bolivia

Time consumed

Start: 08-Feb-17 End: 31-Oct-19

Lead Nordic partner

Nordic Agency for Development and Ecology (NORDECO)

Country of Lead Nordic partner

Denmark

Local partner(s)

Fundación Teko Kavi

Other partner(s)

Wildlife Conservation Society

NCF grant size

408508,76

Total project cost

517,013

Methods

Agroforestry, Branding/marketing support, Non-timber forest products

Country of implementation:

Bolivia

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Description

This project aims to help indigenous families and farmers diversify their incomes and protect forest ecosystem services. This will be obtained through integrated and sustainable forest management projects related to cacao, coffee, jatata palms and essential oils.

The project is a part of WCS and TEKO-KAVI’s ongoing efforts to develop local climate change mitigation and adaptation options through protection of forests and biodiversity and strengthening of... This project aims to help indigenous families and farmers diversify their incomes and protect forest ecosystem services. This will be obtained through integrated and sustainable forest management projects related to cacao, coffee, jatata palms and essential oils.

The project is a part of WCS and TEKO-KAVI’s ongoing efforts to develop local climate change mitigation and adaptation options through protection of forests and biodiversity and strengthening of indigenous people’s rights and ways of living in the Greater Madidi Tambopata landscape. The project areas neighbour three protected areas of global conservation importance (Madidi, Pilon Lajas and Apolobamba), covering more than a dozen municipalities and four indigenous lands (Lecos Apolo, Lecos Larecaja, Tacana I and Tsimane Mosetene of Pilon Lajas) in the Department of La Paz in Bolivia.

The project will support mitigation and adaptation to climate change by supporting sustainable livelihoods that represent an alternative to the expansion of the agricultural frontier and breaking the cycle of environmental degradation and poverty. By building on the successful on-the-ground efforts of WCS, the project will establish community-based sustainable agroforestry systems to restore degraded lands and manage natural cacao groves. The project will focus on innovation in post-harvest processing of coffee and jatata palms thatches, as well as extraction of essential oils.

Specifically, the project supports the establishment of shade coffee, the sustainable management of jatata palms and wild cacao groves, as well as the local capacity of women to produce and sell palm thatches and essential oils.

Indigenous communities are particularly vulnerable to climate change due to their dependence on natural resources and weather and are key stakeholders in protecting forests, reducing deforestation and degradation and ultimately CO2 emissions. This project will help show that indigenous people’s rights and involvement in sustainable forest management is critical to climate change mitigation and adaptation. Integrated and sustainable forest management in indigenous territories provides a significant reduction of emissions from deforestation and control of environmental risks and is an alternative to ensure integral long-term forest management. On the other hand, an alliance with an urban constituency is needed and will be established through the production of rainforest products through technological innovation in pre- and post-harvest treatments, including certification and quality control.

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Objective

•183 hectares of coffee agroforestry systems established or recovered, and under management
•46,374 CO2e-t equivalent avoided emissions
•152,672 CO2e-t absorbed in carbon sink
•87 indigenous coffee producers and their families increase their productivity and income by 30% (baseline 211 kg/ha)
•40 families from Carmen del Emero community harvest wild cacao under a sustainable management plan
•2,200 hectares of rainforest with wild cacao groves under improved management
•2,500 hectares of riparian...

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Results

Objective: 183 hectares of coffee agroforestry systems established or recovered, and under management
Result: 366.46 hectares of agroforestry systems established or recovered, and under management

Objective: 46,374 CO2e-t equivalent avoided emissions, amended to 203,328 CO2-e-t equivalent avoided emissions
Result: 361,652 CO2e-t equivalent avoided emissions

Objective: 152,672 CO2e-t absorbed in carbon sink, amended to 87,596 CO2e-t equivalent
Result: 99,878 CO2e-t equivalent absorbed in carbon sinks

Objective: 87 indigenous coffee producers and their...

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