Presented by Himlal Baral, Senior Scientist, CIFOR-ICRAF, on the ITPC side event “Can bioenergy from degraded peatlands provide a potential alternative to meet growing energy demands? Lesson learned from Indonesia” at the XV World Forestry Congress, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 4 May 2022.

2. Agro-silvo-fishery on
degraded peatlands:
For food, energy and environment
Himlal Baral
4 May 2022

3. Background
• Peatlands provide critical ecosystem goods and services (EGS) such as food, energy,
climate regulation, and biodiversity
• Unsustainable land use practices have been modifying the structure and function of
peatlands - adverse impact to the critical EGS
• These concerns have raised the attention of scientists, policy makers and practitioner -
consensus to take urgent action
• This talk highlights agro-silvo-fishery approach to restore degraded peatland for food,
energy and environment conservation

4. Our approach
• 4-R: Right trees on right land for the right purpose,
while respecting local rights
• Geospatial analysis, spatial species suitability,
stakeholder consultation, landowners perception,
research and demo-trials, scale up/scale out,
• Climate smart agroforestry/ agro-silvo-fishery

5. Agro-silvo-
fishery
approach
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Improved paddy
cultivation and
introducing other
agricultural crops
Planting
multipurpose tree
species
Cultivation various
native fish species

6. Key results
• Enhanced land productivity – paddy yield Increased >3
times (Cahya at al 2022)
• Enhanced biomass and biomaterials production (Rahaman
et al in prepn)
• Controlled fire (Rahman et al in prepn)
• Enhanced carbon sequestration and storage (Rahman et
al in prepn)
• Enhanced biodiversity (Shin et al 2022)

7. Key messages
• If managed appropriately degraded peatlands
can be restored for food, energy and
biomaterials production
• Help to meet other national targets such as food
and energy security, climate regulation, and
biodiversity conservation
• The next step is to scale up/scale out from
current pilot projects scale through public-
private-partnership

8. Thank you