CLIMATE RESILIENCE OF RESTORED FOREST LANDSCAPES

2021- 2030年将是联合国生态系统恢复十年。这个种子项目将建立乌干达和英国研究人员之间的合作，在气候，森林和生计分析方面具有专业知识。森林景观恢复方法是恢复退化景观的国际承诺的基础，例如波恩挑战，即到2030年在全世界恢复3.5亿公顷森林，目的是减缓和适应气候变化，以及生物多样性效益和改善生计。森林资源恢复框架提供了一个可根据当地情况选择的不同恢复活动清单，包括收获种植园、农业系统内的林业（农林业）、自然再生以及森林和农业或牧场的混合组合。这些不同的FLR活动对未来气候影响的敏感性和复原力将有所不同，并对当地生计的复原力产生深远的影响。该项目将采取跨学科的方法，评估在乌干达Macinde的乌干达环境保护信托基金（EcoTrust）场地进行的三种不同类型的FLR对气候影响的适应能力。森林资源恢复的三种类型是：农林业、人工林和自然更新。研究计划分为三个工作包：通过参与性讲习班，让森林恢复利益攸关方参与并确定研究需求;综合不同森林资源恢复方法下的生态、降雨和生计历史数据，以评估其过去对气候变化的适应能力，作为未来敏感性的指南;在乌干达Macinde建立对不同类型森林资源限制区的生态和社会经济后果的长期监测。从这些森林资源保护区站点收集和分析数据将建立一个重要而独特的数据集，该数据集将成为未来与当地森林恢复利益攸关方合作研究提案的基础，以提高景观的复原力和依赖景观的生计。这些活动通过与热带森林景观恢复领域的领先研究人员开展新的国际合作，实现了种子基金的目标（Makerere大学的Bernard Obaa博士和Sarah Akello博士）和实地执行伙伴（EcoTrust的Pauline Nantongo）以及气候和生计数据综合（步行者研究所的Rosalind Cornforth教授和Celia Petty博士，乌干达国家气象局的Moses Tumusiime）。所有合作伙伴都贡献了具体的知识专长，共同建立了一个多学科研究团队，有能力在气候，森林和生计领域开展研究。步行者研究所致力于气候和生计数据的综合、知识交流和政策参与。乌干达马凯雷雷大学农业和环境科学学院提供林业、恢复和生态监测方面的专门知识。生态信托基金在资金流动、社区参与和参与性办法方面提供专门知识，以恢复森林景观，并进行生态监测。乌干达国家气象局通过乌干达雨量观测提供天气和气候数据监测方面的专门知识。这个新的团队将为长期合作提供基础，以评估恢复项目的复原力，方法是在乌干达实地建立长期监测，在那里可以对气候变化、生态和生计复原力进行新的多学科研究。

2021-30 will be the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration. This Seedcorn project will establish collaboration between researchers from Uganda and the UK with expertise in climate, forest and livelihoods analysis. The Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) approach underpins international commitments to restore degraded landscapes such as the Bonn Challenge to restore 350 million hectares of forest worldwide by 2030, with the aim of delivering climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as biodiversity benefits and enhancement of livelihoods. The FLR framework provides a list of different restoration activities that can be chosen depending on local circumstances, including plantations for harvest, forestry within agricultural systems (agroforestry), natural regeneration and mixed compositions of forest and agricultural or pastoral lands. The sensitivity and resilience of these different FLR activities to future climate impacts will vary and have profound implications for the resilience of local livelihoods. This project will take an interdisciplinary approach to assess the resilience of three different types of FLR undertaken at Environmental Conservation Trust of Uganda (EcoTrust) sites in Macinde, Uganda to climatic impacts. The three types of FLR are: agroforestry, plantations and natural regeneration. The research plan is split into three work packages: forest restoration stakeholder engagement and identification of research needs through a participatory workshop; synthesis of historical data on ecology, rainfall and livelihoods under different FLR approaches to assess their resilience to climatic variation in the past, as a guide to future sensitivity; and establishment of long-term monitoring of ecological and socio-economic outcomes of the different types of FLR in Macinde, Uganda. The collection and analysis of data from these FLR sites will build an important and unique dataset which will form the basis of future collaborative research proposals working with local forest restoration stakeholders to improve resilience of the landscape and livelihoods that depend on it.These activities deliver against the aims of the Seedcorn Fund by developing a new international collaboration with leading researchers in tropical forest landscape restoration (Dr Bernard Obaa & Dr Sarah Akello of Makerere University) and implementing partners on the ground (Pauline Nantongo, EcoTrust) as well as climate and livelihoods data synthesis (Prof Rosalind Cornforth & Dr Celia Petty of the Walker Institute, Moses Tumusiime of the Uganda National Meteorological Authority). All partners contribute specific intellectual expertise which together will build a multi-disciplinary research team, with the capacity to deliver research at the cutting edge of climate, forest and livelihoods fields. The Walker Institute contributes climate and livelihoods data synthesis, knowledge exchange and policy engagement. The College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at Makerere University, Uganda contributes technical forestry, restoration and ecological monitoring expertise. EcoTrust contributes expertise in financial flows, community engagement and participatory approaches to forest landscape restoration, as well as ecological monitoring. The Uganda National Meteorological Agency contributes expertise in weather and climate data monitoring, through Rainwatch-Uganda. This new team will provide a basis for long-term collaboration to assess resilience of restoration projects, through establishment of long-term monitoring at field sites in Uganda where novel multi-disciplinary research into climatic changes, ecological and livelihoods resilience can be conducted.