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Potentials of native plant species in Agroforestry systems for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and improvement of local environmental and communities‘ life conditions Ana Lucia Cadena GonzalezThiele Wes5älische WilhelmsUniversität Münster (Germany) InsBtute of Landscape Ecology

Ana Lucia Cadena CLIFF workshop

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PhD research presentation at the workshop of the Climate Food and Farming Network, Dec. 2-4 at Aarhus University, Foulum. The Climate Food and Farming Network is an initiative of Copenhagen U., Aarhus U., and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security.

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Potentials of native plant species in Agroforestry systems for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions

and improvement of local environmental and communities‘ life conditions

Ana  Lucia  Cadena  Gonzalez-­‐Thiele  Wes5älische  Wilhelms-­‐Universität  Münster  (Germany)  

InsBtute  of  Landscape  Ecology  

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Location MunicipaliBes  of  Campo  Hermoso  and  Zetaquira,  Boyacá,  Colombia  

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Scenery

•  Lack  of  local  plans  and  strategies  –  only  isolated  efforts  •  Lack  of   informaBon  on  dimensions  of   losses  because  of  depleBon  of  resources  and  global  warming  at  local  level  (long  heavy  rains)  •  Lack  of  research  on  potenBals  of  Agroforestry  systems  •  DepleBon   of   tradiBonal   knowledge   and   naBve   plants  resources,    lack  of  strategies  to  maintain  these  species.  •   Lack  of  moBvaBon  of  local  community    

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                                                 Some  effects  of  heavy  rains  

Zea  mays  subsp.  mays  

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Preliminary results Campo  Hermoso  •  15  endangered  medicinal  species  

       9  naBve  species  •  20  dissapeared  medicinal  species  

       7  naBve  species  •  Ur#ca  dioica  L.  popularity  (IUV)  

 

Zetaquira  •  7  endangered  medicinal  species  

       3  naBve  species  •  13  dissapeared  medicinal  species  

       6  naBve  species  •  Ruta  graveolens  L.  popularity    

   

 

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Main Objectives •  To  collect  quanBtaBve  informaBon  on  greenhouse  gas  (GHG)  emissions  in  tropical  small  scale  farming  systems  of  Boyacá,  Colombia.  •  To  analyse  the  potenBal  of  agroforestry  systems  with  naBve  mulB-­‐purpose  and  medicinal  plants  to  reduce  GHG  emissions.  •  To  promote  the  culBvaBon  and  conservaBon  of  naBve  plant  species,  especially  endangered  species.    •  To  add  benefits  to  local  producBon  of  food,  medicine  and  to  improve  economy.  

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Hypotheses •  The  potenBal  of  Agroforestry  systems  with  culBvaBon  of    introduced  medicinal  plant  species  is  equal  to  Agroforestry  systems  with  culBvaBon  of  naBve  species  in  terms  of  miBgaBon  of  Green  House  Gas  emissions.    •  NaBve  mulBpurpose  and  medicinal  plant  species  are  o_en  not  culBvated  in  Agroforestry  systems  due  to  the  lack  of  producBvity.  •  Lack  of  knowledge  of  the  producBvity  that  naBve  and  mulBpurpose  medicinal  plant  species  can  offer  to  the  local  economy  has  limited  investments  in  projects  related  to  the  culBvaBon  of  these  species.    

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Methods    

 ProducBvity  projecBons  -­‐Food    producBon?  -­‐Medicinals  producBon?    -­‐Influence  on  local  economy?    -­‐PotenBals  off  GHG  miBgaBon?    

Evalua&on  of  impact  on  livelihoods  

 -­‐Design  of  local  homegarden  model  with    selected  species/    based  on  local  necessiBes  (community  and  environment)    -­‐PromoBon  of      culBvaBon  of  the  homegarden  model  in  comunal  plots  and  within  local  schools      

Design  of  homegarden  

model  

 -­‐SelecBon  of  plots  with  agroforestry  systems  and    selected  species    -­‐Structured  interviews    -­‐Analysis  of  fluxes  of  gases  -­‐Sampling  of  gasses    -­‐StaBsBcal  analyses  

 

Sampling  and  collec&on  of  

data  

 -­‐IntroducBon  of            the  project  -­‐Survey  -­‐Semi-­‐structured  Interviews  -­‐Data  analyses  -­‐SelecBon  of  species  -­‐local  interest  and  necessiBes-­‐  -­‐Previous  results    

Introduc&on  and  diagnos&cs  

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Some species to take into account Municipality Endangered  species Disappeared  speciesCampo  Hermoso

Smilax  aspera  L.,  Cattleya  schroederae  Rchb.F.,  Nicotiana  tabacum  L.,  Ocimum  campechianum  Mill.,  Psidium  guineense   Sw.,  Sapindus  saponaria  L.,  Crescentia  cujete  L.,  Inga  edulis  Mart.

Carica  pentagona  Heilborn,  Platymiscium  ulei  Harms  ex  Harms,  Persea  mutisii  Kunth  ,  Drymis  granadensis L.  f.,  Brownea  ariza  Benth,  Ananas  comosus  (L.)  Merr.

Zetaquira Ceiba  pentandra  (L.)  Gaertn,  Tabebuia  sp.,  Phaseolus  sp.

Juglans  neotropica  Diels,  Crescentia  cujete  L.,  Gossypium   sp.,  Solanum  betaceum  Cav.,  Schizolobium  excelsum  Vegel.,  Persea  mutisii  Kunth.

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Additional species

• Melissa  officinalis      • Verbena  li7oralis  • Ur#ca  dioica  (popular  in  Campo  Hermoso)  • Ruta  graveolens  (popular  in  Zetaquira)  

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Expectations Juglans  neotropica  Diels  

Ca7leya  schroederae  Rchb.  F  

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References •  Russell  Nathan,  2012.  Eco-­‐Efficiency:  From  Vision  to  Reality.  CIAT-­‐CGIAR,  Cali,  Colombia    

•  Nair  P.K.R.,1993.  An  IntroducBon  to  Agroforestry,  Kluwer  Academic  Publishers.  Dordrecht,  The  Netherlands.  

•  Nair  P.K.R.  et  al.  Agroforestry  as  a  strategy  for  carbon  sequestraBon,  Journal  of  Plant  Nutri#on  and  Soil  Science.  2009.  172  :  1,  10-­‐23    

•  Sinclair,  F.,  et  al.  2012.  Enhancing  the  effecBveness  of  agroforestry  research  in  Colombia.  World  Agroforestry  Centre  ICRAF  [online].  Available  from:  hnp://worldagroforestry.org/our_products/publicaBons/details?node=54130  [Accessed  Nov  20,  2013]  

•  Annual  Report  2011-­‐2012:  trees,  livelihoods,  landscapes.  World  Agroforestry  Centre  ICRAF  [online].  Available  from:  hnp://www.worldagroforestrycentre.org/our_products/publicaBons/details?node=53879  [Accessed  Nov  20,  2013]  

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