Lessons learned from Boalemo REDD+ … Gorontalo, we see “Slash & Burn” (Shifting Agriculture) of Corn 4 Corn farmers, who want more income, cut the trees even in sloped area to

Boalemo District Government

Gobel Group, Indonesia

Kanematsu Corp., Japan

Lessons learned fromBoalemo REDD+ Demonstration Project

to mitigate the adverse impact of climate change

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Sulawesi Island, Gorontalo Province

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Sulawesi Island Gorontalo Province

1) Background

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• “Gobel Group”(Panasonic Indonesia) started this project in 2011, together with Boalemo communities, Boalemo Government, and Kanematsu Corp., Japan.

In Gorontalo, we see “Slash & Burn”(Shifting Agriculture) of Corn

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Corn farmers, who want more income, cut the trees even in sloped area to expand their farm land.This is the Deforestation Driver in Gorontalo.

• Since 2001, new Gorontalo province has provided subsidy for Corn agriculture.

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Subsidy for Corn agriculture

Source: 2015-2016 ANTARA

This policy was very successful, because this made new industry, and to improve community livelihood.

However, from the satellite, we see the trend of Deforestation.

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1990 2000 2010

Unfortunately, the new corn industry caused the deforestation in Gorontalo. This is now major reason

of CO2 emission in the province.

Flood in Gorontalo city

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Source: Oct/26 KOMPAS Source: Oct/26 Mongabay

The deforested area cannot keep the rain water, and then, the heavy rain frequently makes river flood in the city area.

Draought due to “El Niño” in 2015

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Source: 2015/Oct AgForIn 2015, due to “El Nino”, the corn farmers in Gorontalo had no sufficient rain, and suffered from production loss.

They want alternative crops to produce.

2) REDD+ Activity

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• This project might be a good practice or good example of REDD+ project activity.

– Preferably, we hope the project is well evaluated as both “Mitigation” and “Adaptation”

– ”Mitigation”: CO2 emission reduction by REDD+ activities;

– “Adaptation”: Cacao makes rather stable production than Corn under high temperature and less rain water.

Deforestation by Slash & Burn

Awareness raising on deforestation

Capacity Building ofgood quality cacao production

Stop Deforestation

Deforestation Driver

Summary of our REDD+ ProjectREDD+ Project

activitiesEmission Reduction

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Introduction of Indonesian cacao to Japanese market

86,520 t-CO2/year(assumption)

Project Site starts in Boalemo District

Gorontalo Province

Boalemo DistrictPohuwatoBone Bolango

North Gorontalo

Gorontalo

Forest Area

Non-Forest Area

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We are expanding the project to whole province.

• With Boalemo communities and district government, we have been demonstrating REDD+ activities to stop deforestation and to reduce CO2 emission.

Capacity Building and Awareness Raisingin Boalemo district for the beginning 2 years

Forest area

Red: District boundaryYellow: Sub-district boundary

In 2 sub-districts Cacao training: in total

236 farmers participated

In all 7 sub-districts Consultation: 351 people

(28 villages) Awareness raising: 293

people (31 villages)

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Cacao production in Boalemo District

Sub-district Production in 2015

1 Mananggu 128.8 ton

2 Botumoito 86.8 ton

3 Tilamuta 20.9 ton

4 Duplpi 147.3 ton

5 Paguyaman 346.9 ton

6 Paguyaman Pantai 27.2 ton

7 Wlonosari 256.5 ton

Total 1,014.4 ton

(Source: Department of Agriculture, Boalemo district)

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Capacity Building

Both for Cacao farmers and Corn farmers.

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How to make good quality cacao beansto sell at higher price

We have already started buying fermented cacao beans from Boalemo farmers, and sold these beans to Japanese company at

higher price than usual. Farmers are very much motivated.

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Harvesting, and Fermentaion Box

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Fermentation for one week

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Japanese chocolate companies “Tokyo-Food” and “DariK” visited Boalemo farmers to check the quality of fermented cacao beans.

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Many stakeholders participate in our project, and support the restoration of Gorontalo forest.

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