ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins

Location: 327, 3rd floor, Collegium Maius

As the debate on REDD evolves, a clear knowledge gap has persisted – what are the real opportunity costs to smallholder farmers for avoiding deforestation? Working at sites across the tropical forest margins, the ASB Partnership has produced widely-used research on carbon emissions and economic returns to land associated with land use change at sites in Indonesia, Peru, Philippines and Cameroon. The bottom-up analysis finds that economic returns of these land use changes are extremely low per tonne of CO2 emitted, helping to confirm that valuing standing forests for their carbon can drastically reduce emissions from deforestation and potentially improve the livelihoods of local communities. ASB is engaging with the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute on new projects to support REDD implementation, investigating which REDD methodology can best support implementation, and how national-level targets can translate into on-the-ground behaviour change.

Chair: Dr. Peter Akong Minang, ASB Programme Associate
Time	Title of presentation	Speaker & Institution	File(s)
14:30 – 14:50	What we’ve done so far: opportunity costs of avoided deforestation with sustainable benefits	Meine van Noordwijk and Sonya Dewi, ICRAF Southeast Asia
14:50 – 14:55	Immediate questions for clarification
14.55 – 15:15	What we’re doing next: Introducing new initiatives to support implementation of REDD	Robin Matthews, Macaulay Institute
15:45 – 16:00	Moderated discussion	Peter Akong Minang, ASB