Assessing benefits and opportunities from tree planting in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania

评估坦桑尼亚南部农业增长走廊植树的效益和机会

• 批准号: 2449770
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2449770
• 关键词: Assessing; benefits; opportunities; tree; planting

Sub-Saharan Africa faces tough climate change challenges and high rates of deforestation. It is the only region where human population growth will still be rising by 2080, and rising with it will be demands on land for resources and food production. These challenges are emblematic for the Anthropocene. Sustainable intensification of agricultural production and food security interventions aim to produce more food by optimizing resource use and management looking at whole landscapes, territories and ecosystems. It has synergies and trade-offs with tree planting, which draws on nature's contribution to crop growth and soil fertility and can help societies to adapt to climate variability, shocks and change. This PhD will link system modelling and ecosystem service evaluation with social data collection in the field to investigate forest restoration potential for people and climate change mitigation in multi-functional landscapes. Focusing on Tanzania, this PhD will investigate how a systems lens approach can address key questions: (1) 'What is the rural community capacity for restoration in the landscape'? = feasibility analysis. (2) 'How do benefits (e.g. nitrogen fixing, non-timber & timber forest products, carbon sequestration, beneficial species) and costs (loss of land, pests) impact decision-making in social groups and networks in the landscape? = vulnerability analysis. (3) 'How does inclusion of additional benefits or costs into the system change outcomes sensu decision-making on and implementation of tree restoration'? = sensitivity analysis. This PhD will complement ongoing research on economic feasibility of restoration and natural capital benefits in the study landscape. This allows access to data, crosssectoral training and well-established links with local communities, government stakeholders and in - country academic partners. Training in key quantitative and qualitative skills relevant for conservation and management in changing human-modified tropical landscapes will be included.

撒哈拉以南非洲地区面临着严峻的气候变化挑战和高森林砍伐率。这是唯一一个到 2080 年人口增长仍将增长的地区，对资源和粮食生产的土地需求也将随之增长。这些挑战是人类世的象征。农业生产的可持续集约化和粮食安全干预措施旨在通过优化整个景观、领土和生态系统的资源利用和管理来生产更多粮食。它与植树存在协同效应和权衡，植树利用了大自然对作物生长和土壤肥力的贡献，可以帮助社会适应气候变化、冲击和变化。该博士学位将把系统建模和生态系统服务评估与现场社会数据收集联系起来，以研究森林恢复对人类的潜力和多功能景观中减缓气候变化的潜力。该博士将重点关注坦桑尼亚，研究系统视角方法如何解决关键问题：(1)“农村社区恢复景观的能力是什么”？ = 可行性分析。 (2)“效益（例如固氮、非木材和木材林产品、碳固存、有益物种）和成本（土地损失、害虫）如何影响景观中的社会群体和网络的决策？” = 漏洞分析。 (3)“将额外效益或成本纳入系统如何改变树木恢复决策和实施的结果”？ = 敏感性分析。该博士学位将补充正在进行的关于恢复的经济可行性和研究领域自然资本效益的研究。这样可以获取数据、跨部门培训以及与当地社区、政府利益相关者和国内学术合作伙伴建立的良好联系。将包括与改变人类改变的热带景观的保护和管理相关的关键定量和定性技能的培训。