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JUABESO-BIA LANDSCAPE

GHANAEnhancing carbon in Ghana’s cocoa landscapes by increasing productivity and restoring ecosystems

Jeffrey Hayward, April 16, 2014

Working in over 100 countries

GloballyCertified Forest Operations

> 75M ha (11.4M ha set aside for conservation) Certified Farms > 1M farmers 3 M ha

CERTIFICATION & MARKET SHARE

From niche to mainstream

SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPES - VALUE CHAIN APPROACH

Training & support to producers

Auditing & Traceability

Corporate engagement

Marketing & Brand awareness

producers / processors buyers / exporters / importers distributors / brands / retailers / industry groups consumers

LAND USE PRACTICES BUSINESS PRACTICES CONSUMER BEHAVIOR

Capacity Building

& Technical

Assistance

Certification &

Sustainability Standards

Market development

&Corporate

engagement

Bia NationalPark

Krokosua Hills FR

“Globally Significant Biodiversity Area

Timber Concessions

GHANA: JUABESO – BIA LANDSCAPE

JUABESO – BIA LANDSCAPE: PROJECT OBJECTIVES

Farmers

• Enable smallholder farmers to practice climate-smart agriculture

• Restore ecosystems• Enhance remnant forests• Conserve nearby forests• Reduce GHG emissions• Small enterprise

development• Climate change education

Company

• Reputation• Income opportunities

from carbon markets• Value chain efficiencies:

• build resilient supply• break links between

cocoa and deforestation

• Reduce operational risks

• A learning exercise

- Supported by USAID, NORAD, Olam

CLIMATE SMART ACTIVITIES

Training & climate education• Best practices training to

support farmers to meet SAN standards

• Capacity building for farmers to achieve Climate Module verification

• “Lead-farmer” program establishment

• Adaptation plans developed at community and farm level to counter those impacts

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WHAT CAN COCOA FARMERS DO?

Maintain our Sacred grovesLeave shade trees on

our cocoa farms.

Grow other crops in addition to cocoa

Plant trees in places where we don’t farm.

Pruning of cocoaFertilizer application

PROJECT SITE & CERTIFIED FARMS

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2012: 833 farmers / 2,401 ha 2013: 1,256 farmers / 3,700 ha

2014 – 2018: 4,000 farmers

11,000 ha

C ACCOUNTING METHOD

• Initially, farm by farm plot approach

• Then, classification using satellite imagery– [World View 2m]– [RapidEye 5m]

• Ground truthing with data gathered in sampling plots established in the various land use types

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BENCHMARK CARBON STOCKS: STRATIFICATION

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Higher shade cocoa

Low/no shade cocoa

Agriculture/fallows

Open canopy forest

SAMPLING LOCATIONS

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STRATIFIED LAND COVER CLASSES

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CARBON STOCKS: STRATIFICATION

CCF = closed canopy forest

OCF = open canopy forest

HSC = high shade cocoa

LSC = low/no shade cocoa

OP = open, fallow

UR = urban

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OP CLS CHS OCF CCF0

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Carbon content of non-cocoa trees by Land Cover Classinterquartile interval (blue)

95% confidence interval (red)

Mean

Median

Land Cover Class

tC/ha n=19

n=70

n=37

n=25

n=37

OP - Open (fallow, fields) CLS - Low/no shade cocoaCHS - Higher shade cocoaOCF - Open Canopy ForestsCCF - Closed Canopy Forests

LANDSCAPE CARBON STOCKS: QUANTIFICATION

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2012: 833 farmers / 2,401 ha255,000 tons CO2e

2013: 1,256 farmers / 3,700 ha410,000 tons CO2e

2014 – 2018: 4,000 farmers

11,000 ha1.5+ M tons CO2e

CARBON PROJECT DESIGN

In Juabeso-Bia it helped to:• Encapsulate benefits and

best practices promoted• Creating baselines • Monitoring and evaluation

plans• Novel C accounting method

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CARBON PROJECT DESIGN

• Developed according to the CCB Standards

• Delivers credible climate, community and biodiversity benefits

• No VERs unless used with another standard such as VCS

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CLIMATE SMART ACTIVITIES

Reforestation• Degraded areas are

being reforested and sustainably managed for timber production

Diversification• Other livelihood

opportunities such as the rearing of grass cutters and bee keeping are being promoted

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GHANA: CLIMATE CHANGE PREDICTIONS

RESULTS TO DATE ..

• Over 2,000 farmers trained to date according to the SAN sustainability standards and the additional climate criteria

• Reach of the project to date covers more than 3,700ha in 36 communities

• Close to 100,000 shade tree seedlings have been planted• Yield increase of 15-30% resulting in an average income increase of

25%• Internal management systems developed• 15 selected teachers trained in climate education are now running

environment clubs in 12 junior high schools• Climate risks and impacts assessed at community and farm level and

activities to counter these are being put in place• Sustainable trading relationship developed • Project objectives align well with Ghana’s Forest Investment Plan, as

region is a priority, and also FCPF and ISFL

WHAT WE LEARNED

• Landscape C accounting = changes in C stocks can be assessed across all smallholder farmers

• No repeated plot measurements needed = reduced cost• Potential to quantify C sequestered = opportunity to engage in

insetting• Differentiation of cocoa system type = basis for management

advice with regards to stocking densities of shade trees• Continued improvement of farming practices through follow up

training = increased yields, improved livelihoods, better quality, enhanced resiliency

• Replicable in other landscapes = rejuvenation and rehabilitation in Cote de Ivoire

• Viable REDD+ pilot site = Help Ghanaian government achieve low carbon development, consistent with FCPF and ISFL

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