Valentina Robiglio

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research | CGIAR · World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

Commodity crop expansion, for both global and domestic urban markets, follows multiple land change pathways entailing direct and indirect deforestation, and results in various social and environmental impacts. Here we compare six published case studies of rapid commodity crop expansion within forested tropical regions. Across cases, between 1.7% an...

The present study evaluated profitability of some models of cocoa farms and analyzed the relationship between cocoa yield, income and carbon stored in traditional cocoa agroforests to discuss implications of cocoa intensification on carbon emissions in Cameroun. Surveys on establishment, management practices and marketing were conducted in 49 cocoa...

Efforts towards Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation plus conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of carbon stocks (REDD+) have grown in importance in developing countries following negotiations within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This has favoured investments in...

La pérdida del bosque húmedo tropical es una de las principales preocupaciones globales por su impacto sobre la pérdida de biodiversidad y el cambio climático. Para mitigarlo, es necesario un enfoque sistémico que permita identificar los factores causales, cómo se interrelacionan y quiénes son los agentes que los mueven. Recientemente, en Perú, se...

Coffee is a major global commodity whose production is sustained by and provides livelihoods for millions of smallholder families in the tropics. However, it is highly sensitive to climate change and the climate risk family farmer's face from direct impacts on coffee production are often compounded by further impacts on the physical and social land...

En Perú, la agroforestería es entendida como un sistema de producción de madera y es regulada por el sector forestal. Sin embargo, el contexto y el alcance de la agroforestería va más allá del elemento forestal. En los sistemas productivos de la Amazonía y de los Andes es común la asociación de árboles y arbustos en las parcelas agrícolas (chacras)...

DriveNet (Robiglio, Reyes and Makui, 2020) es una metodología diseñada por el Centro Internacional de Investigación Agroforestal (ICRAF) para analizar participativamente las causas y los mecanismos causales de la deforestación y el cambio de uso de la tierra. Se desarrolló en el marco del proyecto "Apoyo del Instituto de Innovación de la Tierra a l...

In Latin America, the cultivation of Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica) plays a critical role in rural livelihoods, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable development. Over the last 20 years, coffee farms and landscapes across the region have undergone rapid and profound biophysical changes in response to low coffee prices, changing climatic condi...

Cocoa cultivation is labeled as a driver of both deforestation and reforestation, yet the extent of the phenomena varies at farm and landscape level and as a response to national and local contexts. In this study, we documented the main pathways and contexts behind cocoa cultivation in two sites with different histories of cocoa cultivation. We com...

La deforestación es una de las principales preocupaciones a nivel global y resulta de la interacción a múltiples escalas entre factores y actores en un territorio. Los enfoques jurisdiccionales que buscan reducir la deforestación, articulando políticas e institucionalidad, están afirmándose como el justo medio entre los programas de alcance naciona...

Agroforestry Concessions, foreseen by the new Peruvian Forest Law, anticipate integrating thousands of small-scale farmers encroached on public forest land into the formal economy, to strengthen local livelihoods, stimulate land restoration, and halt deforestation. But, there are contrasting opinions regarding the potential of agroforestry and land...

This study contrasts the short-term effects of the quarantine measures implemented to contain the COVID-19 disease on the production and commercialization strategies of potato and coffee producers in Peru. Potato farmers appeared more impacted by the shock due to disruptions in the commercialization channels, leading to lower sales volumes and pric...

The forest-based farming system (FBFS) is found in the Congo Basin and in discrete fragments of coastal west Africa. It is a largely transitional phase to more intensive, often less sustainable systems. FBFS are relatively food secure due to all year round production and access to non-timber forest food products. However, poverty is pronounced as a...

Agroforestry mitigation potential was recognized by Peru in its NDC; nevertheless the country has not yet advanced in an appropriate MRV system allowing agroforestry contribution to be incorporated in the emission reductions to fulfil the national pledge to UNFCCC. We highlight main gaps and barriers as a first assessment to impulse focused and pre...

In the myriad national and subnational Latin American contexts, oil palm expansion has led to varied and often controversial outcomes. Evidence is emerging that oil palm adoption can have positive impacts on smallholder livelihoods, but impacts depend on the relationships between farmers and processors. Key aspects include types of supply arrangeme...

Technical, financial and regulatory constraints mean that agroforestry and tree based systems (TBS) are not visible in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (INGEI) despite the fact that in many countries they have expressed a political will to promote them as a climate change adaptation and mitigation measure. Their mitigation potential thus remains...

Múltiples políticas, medidas e iniciativas sectoriales y territoriales reconocen la importancia la agroforestería y la del enfoque de paisaje en AFOLU para cumplir los objetivos de mitigación. La NAMA Forestal permite implementar intervenciones que apuntan hacia el cierre de la brecha entre producción (sector agropecuario) y conservación de áreas f...

Múltiples políticas, medidas e iniciativas sectoriales y territoriales reconocen la importancia la agroforestería y la del enfoque de paisaje en AFOLU para cumplir los objetivos de mitigación. La NAMA Forestal permite implementar intervenciones que apuntan hacia el cierre de la brecha entre producción (sector agropecuario) y conservación de áreas f...

This poster presents 8 restoration options which include trees on farms as a result of implementing Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM) at the subnational level in Padre Abad province, Ucayali region, in Peru. These restoration options have the potential for contributing to Aichi 7 target and will further characterized under our...

The SDGs have raised a collective international ambition for the sustainable management and conservation of forests, an ambition, which is significant for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Prior to the adoption of the SDGs, many governments had existing policy objectives and commitments articulated in national and...

This article reviews the current status, trends and challenges of land system science in Latin America. We highlight the advances in the conceptualization, analysis and monitoring of land systems. These advances shift from a focus on the relationships between forests and other land uses to include a greater diversity of land cover and land-use type...

Sustainable cocoa’ has attracted considerable attention. However, stakeholders in cocoa development may differ in their understanding of sustainable cocoa, their interests and actions taken in advancing sustainable cocoa. This article analyses cocoa sustainability at nested scales and analyses to what extent sustainability standards, policies and d...

Agroforestry Concessions are an innovative legal provision of the Forest Law of Peru. Granted to farmers at the agricultural frontier and conditioned on the compliance with the maintenance of tree cover and the adoption of agroforestry and soil and water conservation practices, Agroforestry Concessions have the potential of a win-win option to meet...

The 2010 Cancun agreement on climate change recognized the need for a change in our lifestyles, production and consumption towards low-carbon activities framed by a sustainable approach. In COP 20 held in Lima in 2014 the Parties agreed to elaborate their iNDC (Intended Nationally Determined Contributions) in order to set a new agreement during COP...

Peru contains the fourth largest area of tropical forest in the world, yet faces a worsening net deforestation rate. In 2008, to address this threat, the national government announced its ambition to reduce deforestation to zero by 2021. Via literature review and key informant interviews, this study assess two years of REDD+ readiness preparations...

Peru contains the fourth largest area of tropical forest in the world, yet faces a worsening net deforestation rate. In 2008, to address this threat, the national government announced its ambition to reduce deforestation to zero by 2021. Via literature review and key informant interviews, this study assess two years of REDD + readiness preparations...

Este documento presenta las bases y justificación de las recomendaciones de modificación del borrador del Reglamento de la Ley Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre (LFFS, Ley Nº 29763). El nuevo Reglamento ofrece la posibilidad de reducir la carga regulatoria de los pequeños agricultores que producen y venden madera de rápido crecimiento en sistemas agrof...

Efforts towards Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation plus conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of carbon stocks (REDD+) have grown in importance in developing countries following negotiations within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This has favoured investments in...

Efforts towards Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation plus conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of carbon stocks (REDD+) have grown in importance in developing countries following negotiations within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This has favoured investments in...

During the last decade, in Central Africa, timber volume of the artisanal chainsaw milling (CSM) sector, main-ly for domestic markets, has exceeded that processed by the export-oriented industrial sector. However, due to lack of legal alternatives, CSM is largely an informal activity. We rely on the theory of access to understand the mechanisms of...

This article focuses on timber sourced from the rural areas in the Non Permanent Forest Estate of the Central Region of Cameroon. Data about volumes marketed in urban centres, harvesting operations and on-farm timber management are used to discuss the ecological impact of small scale logging and its sustainability in the long term. An opportunistic...

In common with most remaining areas of humid tropical forest, the forest of southern Cameroon is being converted to agricultural land, and is subject to increasing pressure as population grows and markets develop. The Humid Forest Ecoregional Centre of the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA-HFC) has worked for nearly a decade on...

Fallow vegetation within landscapes dominated by shifting cultivation represents a woody species pool of critical importance with considerable potential for biodiversity conservation. Here, through the analysis of factors that influence the early stages of fallow vegetation regrowth in two contrasting forest margin landscapes in Southern Cameroon,...

This training manual shares hands-on experiences from field programs and presents the essential practical and theoretical steps, methods and tools to estimate the opportunity costs of REDD+ at the national level. REDD stands for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation. REDD+ additionally includes conservation, sustainable manag...

This report explores key elements required to support a whole landscape approach for carbon accounting in Cameroon – to Reduce Emissions from All Land Uses (REALU). A REALU approach requires integrating a cross-sectoral discourse into the debate about Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+). Cross-sectoral issues in Cam...

Participatory mapping and GIS are both necessary to model the interactions between humans and their environment. A case study from the forest margin in the Congo Basin demonstrates how data from participatory community mapping and other social science methods can be prepared for quantitative modelling. This approach bridged the gap between spatial...

An interim report of the Alternatives to Slash and Burn Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins.

A spatially explicit understanding of local knowledge about land use and tenure is fundamental to developing and assessing sustainable management options for tropical forests in Central Africa. This paper presents a case study in the Humid Forest Zone of Cameroon to demonstrate the effectiveness of integrating participatory rural appraisal techniqu...

Participatory mapping and GIS are both necessary to model the interactions between humans and their environment. A case study from the forest margin in the Congo Basin demonstrates how data from participatory community mapping and other social science methods can be prepared for quantitative modelling. This approach bridged the gap between spatial...

This case study is based on research undertaken in Soutn Cameroon since 1996, on the institutions and property regimes of forest management. Historical factors that have contributed to the structuring of the management of common land and resources and their evolutions are briefly presented. In the light of this presentation, tenure and organization...

At the tropical forest margin vegetation regrowth processes in shifting cultivati on fallows are crucial to mitigate and recover from the impact of deforestation and degradation induced by small scale - agriculture on biodiversity, carbon stocks and on the provision of non -agricultural products to farmers (e.g. timber, fuel-wood, medicinal plants)...