Cn tu12 9_wb3_aveiro_participatory_slm_appraisal_svalente

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t Methodology for participatory SLM

appraisal and selection

- the Portuguese experience -

Sandra Valente, Sandra Valente, Celeste Coelho, António Ferreira, Jorge Moreira, Celeste Coelho, António Ferreira, Jorge Moreira,

Manuela Carreiras, João Soares, Gudrun Schwilch, Felicitas Bachmann Manuela Carreiras, João Soares, Gudrun Schwilch, Felicitas Bachmann

& Teresa Carvalho & Teresa Carvalho

LANDCON 1010International Conference on Combating Land Degradation and Annual Councilor Meeting of WASWAC

11-15 October 2010, Xi’An, Shaanxi Province, China

LANDCON 1010

International Conference on Combating Land Degradation and Annual Councilor Meeting of WASWAC


Depopulation Forest Fires

Profitability losses Erosion processes

Desertification

Depopulation Forest Fires

Profitability losses Erosion processes

Desertification

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Portuguese study sites: Mação and Góis Municipalities

Mação Municipality:

• 6919 inhabitants and 17,7 inhab/km2 (2009)

• Rainfall between 600 and 1000 mm/year

• Soils very shallow and stony

• Step slopes (> 20º)

• Agro-silvo-pasture systems in the middle 20th / at the

present forestry of Pine and Eucalyptus and shrubland

• Huge investments in fire fighting equipment and measures

Góis Municipality

• 4321 inhabitants and 16,6 inhab/km2 (2009)

• Rainfall about 1200 mm, concentrated during winter

season

• Soils very shallow and stony

• Slope about 20º

• Land use is pasture on dense shrubland and forestry

• Some experience in applying prescribed fire

DESIRE WB3 Methodology

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Aim and Role: To identify, evaluate, document and share existing and

potential SLM strategies and to select and negotiate promising strategies for

implementation

Desertification

Problems:

Overgrazing

Droughts

Flash floods

Water erosion

Wind erosion

Salinization

Forest Fires

Decision Support for selecting SLM practices

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Evaluation, documentationand sharing of the identified strategies

Participatory Learning Approach

To share experiencesTo identify existent and potential strategiesTo increase trust and collaboration

Selection and negotiation of the strategies

To select the best options Using a decision support tool

Dissemination

Evaluation of the Implemented strategies

Part I – Identification: Stakeholder workshop 1

Part II – Assessment: Standardised questionnaires

Part III – Selection: Stakeholder workshop 2

WB4

WB6

Researchers

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Portuguese study sites: Stakeholders

Common lands

National Authority

to Forest

Forest associations

Forest ownersHunter

associations

Regional Department

for Agriculture and

Fisheries

Parishes

ZIF

Technical

Forest Office

Fire brigade and

civil protection bodies

City Council

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Stakeholder Workshop 1 – Participatory Learning Approach

Aim: Identify promising existing and potential strategies for land conservation

WS duration: Two days; 15-16 March 2008

Participants: 17 participants (77% were male and 71% were from local level)

Main aim concerning SLM identified in the WS1: Reduction of burned

area

@ UA, 2008

Mação, 2008Mação, 2008

@ CM Mação, 2005

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Picture gallery: Land degradation and land conservation

issues

@ UA/ESAC, 2008

WS1 - Mação, 2008


@ UA/ESAC, 2008

WS1 - Mação, 2008

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Picture gallery: Land degradation and land conservation issues

The water and biomass cycles: Disturbances

@ UA/ESAC, 2008

WS1 - Mação, 2008


@ UA/ESAC, 2008

WS1 - Mação, 2008

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Local indicators for land degradation and conservation

@ UA, 2009

Mação, 2009


@ UA, 2009

Caratão - Mação, 2009

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Stakeholders’ influence and interest in SLM


WS1 - Mação, 2008

@ UA/ESAC, 2008

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WS1 - Mação, 2008

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Stakeholders’ influence and interest in SLM

Already applied and potential solutions to problems of land

degradation


@ UA, 2008

Terraces - Mação, 2008

@ UA, 2008

WS1 - Mação, 2008

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Alto da Caldeirinha - Mação, 2009

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Outline of a strategy for sustainable land management

Approach: ZIF (Forest Intervention Area)

Technologies: Primary Strip Network System for Fuel

Management and Prescribed Fire

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WOCAT Questionnaires

Evaluation, Documentation and Sharing the identifying strategies

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Stakeholder Workshop 2 – Selection and decision support

Aim: Select jointly 1-2 options from the WOCAT database to be implemented

under DESIRE framework and to strengthen collaboration among the

stakeholders involved

WS duration: Two days; 19-20 February 2009

Participants: 12 participants (67% were male and 83% were from local level)

Main aim concerning SLM identified in the WS1: Reduction of the

burned area

Problem: Few technologies in the WOCAT database to mitigate or prevent

burned area

Need to document several technologies to address this problem

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Selection of options

- Strategic management of fuel strips;

- Prescribed fire;

- Preventive forestry;

- Infrastructures for Forest Support

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Identification of economic, social and ecological criteria to

evaluate the options

Examples: implementation costs; production increase; soil conservation;

increase water availability; increase employment; social acceptance of the

technology; etc.


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Identification of economic, social and ecological criteria to evaluate the options

Scoring the options and ranking using the Facilitator

@ UA/ESAC, 2008

WS2 - Góis, 2009

@ UA/ESAC, 2008

WS2 - Góis, 2009


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Overlap between the technologies

Three of them are located above 0,5 - good options concerning sustainable

development

There is no clear identification of the best technology

The participants concluded that all the technologies are important to achieve

the objective – reduce burned area


Identification of economic, social and ecological criteria to evaluate the options

Scoring the options and ranking using the Facilitator

Final decision – Which technologies should be field-tested?

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Final Decision


@ UA, 2009

Mação, 2009

@ ESAC, 2009

Góis, 2009

Prescribed FirePreventive Forestry - Primary Strip Network System for Fuel Management

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The WS initiative and methodology were highly appreciated;

The methods promoted equal participation and an informal work

environment;

The field visits are very important, since they have the potential of

putting technical, scientific and local knowledge together;

There is a high expectation in the implementation of these

technologies, however the short financial capacity is a huge constraint.

Lessons learned from this approach… stakeholders’ visions

A third workshop to evaluate the technologies implementation;

The need of further discussion and research on these topics.

Lessons learned from this approach… in the future

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