Using spatial information to support decisions on safeguards and multiple benefits for REDD+ in Tanzania

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
2013

ABSTRACT

REDD+ has the potential to contribute to achieving more policy goals than climate mitigation alone. In Tanzania, REDD+ is expected to deliver multiple benefits, whose nature and extent will depend on the location and type of REDD+ activity implemented. These benefits include sustainable use of forest resources, biodiversity conservation, poverty alleviation, maintenance of forest dependent communities’ rights, and improved community livelihoods. The REDD+ safeguards agreed under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change are intended to guide REDD+ implementation to avoid adverse effects to people and the environment, and to ensure multiple benefits. During the last years, the Tanzanian Forest Service has produced a unique set of forest, socioeconomic and governance related data and maps from 32 000 field inventory plots and interviews with 3500 households and 1100 key informants, which among other sources of data have been used for the production of analysis and maps in this publication. Maps can help to increase understanding of the spatial distribution of such potential benefits, and support decision-making on where and how REDD+ might be implemented. The maps presented in this brochure were developed to support Tanzania's implementation of the REDD+ safeguards, and planning for multiple benefits from REDD+. Themes include natural forest, biodiversity, ecosystem services, drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, and potential zones for implementation of REDD+ activities.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 1.1 Forests in Tanzania 1.2 REDD+ implementation and safeguards	[2Mb]
2.Planning for REDD+ multiple benefits and safeguards 2.1 Biomass carbon stocks of Tanzania 2.2 Natural forest 2.3 Biodiversity	[5Mb]
2.4 Ecosystem services 2.5 Land designations 2.6 Pressures on biodiversity, carbon and other ecosystem services	[4Mb]
3. Potential zones for implementing different REDD+ activities - some examples	[2Mb]
4. Conclusions and outlook Annex I References	[2Mb]

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