Pilots

Ghana

Focus: Evaluating and communicating progress at the landscape level toward ambitious REDD+ and Cocoa and Forest Initiative commitments

Region: Juabeso Bia and Kakum Hotspot Intervention Areas

Stakeholders: Cocoa producers, companies, and government

Partners: Nature Conservation Resource Centre (NCRC)

CHALLENGES

Ghana is the world’s second-largest producer of cocoa. However, current cocoa production practices requiring large tracts of land, contribute to a 3.2% rate of deforestation in Ghana’s tropical high forests.

This growing trend threatens biodiversity (in one of the world’s biodiversity hot spots), increases GHG emissions, and puts cocoa production at risk by degrading the ecosystem that supports it, thereby jeopardizing the livelihoods of the farmers and forest-users who depend on it.

USING LANDSCALE

In the cocoa-producing landscapes, Juabeso-Bia and Kakum, LandScale is being used to assess whether public and private investments, strategies, and field activities are effectively addressing challenges such as ending deforestation, restoring forest areas, and ensuring producers can thrive.

LandScale provides a way for the government and companies to evaluate and demonstrate progress towards their ambitious Cocoa and Forest Initiative commitments.

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Costa Rica

Focus: Building support for the Agua Tica Water Fund and overall landscape sustainability by defining common goals, tracking progress, and credibly communicating results

Region: Greater San José metropolitan watershed

Stakeholders: Public and private groups participating in the Agua Tica Water Fund and coffee producers

Partners: International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Fundecor

Challenge

The Greater Metropolitan Area (GAM in Spanish) that makes up the watershed for the Costa Rican capital, San José, provides water for hundreds of thousands of people as well as some of the country’s biggest industries, including the beverage sector, electricity production, and others.

However, rapid urbanization in the GAM has resulted in degradation and strained water resources. To ensure water for the capital’s people and economy, it is critical that the watershed preserves and restores water catchment areas.

Using LandScale

Agua Tica – established by public and private groups in the region – implements restoration and conservation actions in the GAM. By using LandScale to define common goals and milestones, Agua Tica can ensure the actions of different programs, policies and initiatives in the landscape work together to drive ambitious change.

LandScale also allows Agua Tica and partners to track progress towards improving socio-economic, environmental, and governance outcomes at the complete landscape level and to credibly communicate their achievements to existing funders and potential new members and investors.

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Peru

Focus: Aligning existing resources and attracting new landscape buyers and finance in order to restore forests and improve sustainable practice for a more equitable rural economy

Region: San Martin

Stakeholders: Local government

Partners: Rainforest Alliance

Mexico

Focus: Improving public and private watershed management by setting, measuring, and communicating progress towards common goals

Region: Jalisco and the Yucatán Peninsula

Stakeholders: TBD

Partners: Rainforest Alliance

Guatemala

Focus: Amplifying the impacts of forest restoration and mangrove conservation by public and private sector to achieve common goals to safeguard water resources

Region: Western Costa Sur

Stakeholders: Banana and palm oil producers

Partners: Rainforest Alliance, Solidaridad