Seed Networks for Upscaling Forest Landscape Restoration: Is It Possible to Expand Native Plant Sources in Brazil?

Danilo I de Urzedo; Fatima C M Pina-Rodrigues; Rafael Faltran-Barbieri; Rodrigo G P Junqueira; Robert J Fisher

doi:10.3390/f11030259

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Seed Networks for Upscaling Forest Landscape Restoration: Is It Possible to Expand Native Plant Sources in Brazil?

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Seed Networks for Upscaling Forest Landscape Restoration: Is It Possible to Expand Native Plant Sources in Brazil?

Danilo I de Urzedo, Fatima C M Pina-Rodrigues, Rafael Faltran-Barbieri, Rodrigo G P Junqueira and Robert J Fisher

Forests, Vol.11(3), 259

2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/f11030259

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Abstract

ecological restoration

native seed

seedlings

community networks

livelihoods

In this paper, we explore how diverse community networks in Brazil have locally advanced seed production and institutional systems to enhance a restoration economy. By focusing on the experiences of the six major native seed suppliers in Amazonia, the Cerrado, and the Atlantic Forest, we estimate the capacity to scale-up community-based systems to meet a large-scale restoration target as a rural development strategy. Over one decade, 1016 collectors traded 416.91 tonnes of native seeds representing, on average, 31.41 kilos yearly and USD 256.5 as household income. Based on this well documented empirical evidence, we estimate that Brazil's restoration goal would require from 3.6 to 15.6 thousand tonnes of native seeds depending on the share of each restoration method adopted with potential work opportunities for 13.2 to 57.1 thousand collectors yearly and total income from USD 34 to 146 million. We argue that community networks represent feasible arrangements for increasing the availability of plant material sources which provide high socio-economic benefits. For scaling up native seed sources, we suggest the following key strategies: (i) government incentives and subsidies; (ii) enforcement of ecosystem restoration; (iii) community participation; (iv) adaptation of the seed regulations; (v) technological development; and (vi) seed market diversification.

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Title: Seed Networks for Upscaling Forest Landscape Restoration: Is It Possible to Expand Native Plant Sources in Brazil?
Authors: Danilo I de Urzedo (Author) - University of Sydney
Fatima C M Pina-Rodrigues (Author) - Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil
Rafael Faltran-Barbieri (Author) - World Resources Institute Brazil, Brazil
Rodrigo G P Junqueira (Author) - Instituto Socioambiental, Brazil
Robert J Fisher (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast
Publication details: Forests, Vol.11(3), 259; 20
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date published: 2020
DOI: 10.3390/f11030259
ISSN: 1999-4907
Copyright note: Copyright © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Organisation Unit: Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Forest Research Institute
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450961902621
Output Type: Journal article