Restoration 
Plantations and tree crop commodities 
Enhanced nutrition and food security 
Biodiversity, safeguarding and conservation 
Nationally determined contributions 
Bioenergy and biomaterials 
Blue carbon and peatlands 
Climate change adaptation 
Landscape governance 
Gender 
Silvopastoral systems 
Market-based agroforestry-forestry 
Farm-forest policy interface 
Agroecology 
Livelihood trajectory modelling and assessment 
Inclusive finance and business models 
Innovating finance for sustainable landscapes 
Public and private commitments to zero deforestation 
Orphan tree crops 
Effectiveness of approaches to sustainable supply 
Quality of FTA research for development 
Sentinel landscapes 
Foresight 
Seeds and seedlings delivery systems 
Smallholder tree-crop commodities 
- Largest province in Ecuador by area, with country’s highest biodiversity
- Contains 35% of Yasuní National Park (YNP), occupied by Waorani indigenous group – site of ongoing conflict over oil extraction
- 78% forest cover (of which 67% is primary forest); highest in Ecuador
- 7 constitutionally-recognized indigenous nationalities occupy 80% of provincial area (~2 million ha), as legally endorsed in the provincial Territorial Development & Zoning Plan (PDOT), & have exclusive land use rights
- Significant petroleum production since 1970s has contributed to land use changes, migration & settlement activities by the Provincial Decentralized Autonomous Government (GAD)
- SocioBosque Program provides income for local communities (LC) in 30% of Pastaza
Authors:
Rojas Peña, M.; David, O.; Peteru, S.
Subjects:
climate change, sustainable development
Publication type:
Factsheet, Publication
Year:
2020
