Landscape management to develop agroforestry in Central-Africa

(1)

Landscape management

to develop agroforestry in Central-Africa

In D.R. Congo, between 2010 & 2014,

over

150 farmers have used ANR

and

1700 ha of Acacia auriculiformis

have been

planted

.

Results

To ensure that rebuilt agro-systems are well adapted to the current and

future needs of populations under evolving environmental conditions,

the

support of research and development is often necessary

from the

earliest stages. This was the case for the enrichment of Faidherbia albida

parklands in northern Cameroon and for improving systems of shifting

cultivation by planting trees and implementing ANR in DR Congo.

Conclusion

PELTIER Régis

1 , DUBIEZ Emilien

2 , MARQUANT Baptiste

3 , PEROCHES Adrien

4 , DIOWO Simon

5 ,

YAMBA YAMBA Timothée

5 and PALOU MADI Oumarou

6 References

(1)

_{Centre International de Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD-ES-UR-BSEF), Montpellier, France}

_{(peltier@cirad.fr)}

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_{Office National des Forêts International (}

_{emiliendubiez@hotmail.com)}

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(3)

_{AgroParisTech, Montpellier, France}

_{(baptiste.marquant@agroparistech.f )}

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(4)

_{SupAgro-IRC, Montpellier, France}

_{(adrien.peroches@gmail.com)}

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(5)

_{Projet CapMakala, Kinshasa, Congo Democratic Republic}

(diowosimon@yahoo.fr) (timotheeyambayamba@gmail.com)

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(6)

_{Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD), Maroua, Cameroon}

(paloumadi2000@yahoo.fr)

Background

Discussion

The combination of these two approaches may indeed enable villagers to slow

the degradation of their natural resources and engage in a dynamic

reconstruction of the tree component of their territories.

However,

success is contingent on several conditions

:



Villagers must collectively see

resource degradation as a danger and their

restoration as an opportunity for a better future;



The

support of traditional authorities and administration

also is required.

 BOULOGNE M., PENNEC A., DUBIEZ E., GIGAUD M., PEROCHES A., LAVIALLE J.,REROLLES J., PROCES P., PELTIER R., MARIEN J-N., GOND V., 2013. Chapitre 2 – Évolution du couvert végétal et des stocks de carbone dans le bassin d’approvisionnement de Kinshasa. In : Quand la ville mange la forêt. Les défis du bois-énergie en Afrique centrale, J-N. MARIEN, É. DUBIEZ, D. LOUPPE et A.LARZILLIERE eds. Editions QUAE, Versailles, France. pp. 45-59.

 LAURANCE W. F., SAYER J., and CASSMAN K. G., 2014. Agricultural expansion and its impacts on tropical nature. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 2014 Vol. 29 N 2, pp. 65-126.

 PELTIER R., BISIAUX F., DUBIEZ E., MARIEN J.-N., MULIELE J.-C., PROCES P. et VERMEULEN C. 2010. From slash-and-burn to slash-and-charcoal in R.D. Congo. In : Acts of the Congress ISDA, « Innovation & Sustainable Development in Agriculture and Food » Montpellier (France) 28-30 June 2010. http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00512274/fr/

 PELTIER R., MARQUANT B., PALOU MADI O., NTOUPKA M., TAPSOU J-M., 2013. Boosting traditional management of Sahelian Faidherbia parks? In : The role of functional diversity for ecosystem services in multi-functional agroforestry, FUNCITREE final Conference, 23-25 May 2013, Trondheim, Norway. http://funcitree.nina.no/Portals/ft/Session%20III%20presentations.pdf).

 PELTIER R., DUBIEZ E., DIOWO S., GIGAUD M., MARIEN J-N., MARQUANT B., PEROCHES A., PROCES P., VERMEULEN C., 2014. Assisted Natural Regeneration in slash-and-burn agriculture: Results in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Bois et Forêts des Tropiques 321(3) : 67-79.

http://makala.cirad.fr/index.php/projets/makala/les_produits/publications/articles_scientifiques/2015_peltier_and_al_anr_in_slash_and_burn_agriculture.

 PELTIER R., DUBIEZ E., FREYCON V., MARIEN J-N., MARQUANT B., PEROCHES A., DIOWO S., YAMBA YAMBA T., PALOU MADI O., 2014. From the Sahara to the Congo River, combining assisted natural regeneration and land tenure security to improve slash-and-burn agriculture. 2014 . - [1] poster In : World Congress on Agroforestry (WCA 2014), Delhi, India, 10-14 February 2014. http://www.worldagroforestry.org/downloads/publications/pdfs/B17335.PDF

 SMEKTALA G, PELTIER R, SIBELET N, LEROY M., MANLAY R., NJITI C.F., NTOUPKA M., NJIEMOUN A., PALOU O., TAPSOU. 2005. PARCS AGROFORESTIERS SAHÉLIENS : de la conservation à l'aménagement. Revue électronique VertigO, vol 6, n 2, Institut des Sciences de l’Environnement, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada. http://vertigo.revues.org/index4410.html

 VERMEULEN C.MUTAMBWE S, DUBIEZ E., PROCES P., PELTIER R., MARIEN J-N., DOUCET J-L., 2010. Enjeux fonciers et exploitation du bois-énergie en périphérie de Kinshasa, RDC. Communication à la Journée « Contributions de la formation et de la recherche agronomiques au développement durable du Congo ». Gembloux, Belgique, le 19 octobre 2010. Lien vidéo : http://www.canalzoom.com/site/index.php?iddet=6177&quellePage=999&idcat=89&id_surf=&commentaire=ajout

Methods

In semi-arid zones of northern Cameroon, as in the wetlands of D.R. Congo, research

and-development projects have combined two approaches to address these issues:

 Establishing

Simple Management Plans (SMP) of village territories

;

 Disseminating simple techniques for the

collective management of natural forests

and for setting up

individual agroforestry

plots using plantation or

Assisted Natural

Regeneration (ANR)

.

The evaluation of these projects is based on surveys of villagers, satellite mapping

and forest inventories.

In Central Africa, the degradation of tree resources exacerbates the effects of climate

change (high variation of temperatures, dry air, etc.).

However, attempts to limit this degradation by developing community forestry,

individual forest plantations and agroforestry have often produced disappointing