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Carbon and biodiversity outcomes under divergent management scenarios: Lessons from upland Philippines shifting cultivation landscapes
Farmer Innovations and Best Practices by Shifting Cultivators in Asia-Pacific, pp.408-420
CABI
2023
Abstract
The Philippines is both a biodiversity hotspot and a megadiverse country. The country also has experienced one of the highest rates of deforestation in Southeast Asia and is among the first countries to introduce a massive reforestation program to address the country's rapid biodiversity and forest loss. Drawing upon an empirical study from the Leyte island and other relevant case studies from the Philippines, in this chapter, we demonstrate that recovering secondary forests following shifting cultivation, locally known as kaingin have the high potentials for biodiversity and carbon co-benefits. Based on our empirical study, we also found that secondary forest regrowing after kaingin use can potentially be used as a cost-effective reforestation measure with multiple benefits to people and the environment in upland areas of the Philippines. We also discuss measures that are essential for such programs to be successful.
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- Title
- Carbon and biodiversity outcomes under divergent management scenarios: Lessons from upland Philippines shifting cultivation landscapes
- Authors
- Sharif A Mukul (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests and People Research CentreJohn Herbohn (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests and People Research CentreJennifer Firn (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyNestor Gregorio (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests and People Research Centre
- Contributors
- Malcolm Cairns (Editor)
- Publication details
- Farmer Innovations and Best Practices by Shifting Cultivators in Asia-Pacific, pp.408-420
- Publisher
- CABI
- Date published
- 2023
- DOI
- 10.1079/9781800620117.0000
- ISBN
- 9781800620100; 9781800620117
- Copyright note
- ©2023 CAB International. [Farmer Innovations and Best Practices by Shifting Cultivators in Asia-Pacific] is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
- Organisation Unit
- Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research; Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; Forest Industries Research Centre; School of Science, Technology and Engineering; Forest Research Institute
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99522206602621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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