{"id":46,"date":"2020-06-03T03:09:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T03:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cifor.org\/annualreport2019\/?p=46"},"modified":"2020-06-29T07:52:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T07:52:23","slug":"grassroots-approach-to-stopping-fire-and-haze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cifor.org\/annualreport2019\/grassroots-approach-to-stopping-fire-and-haze\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassroots approach to stopping fire and haze"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fires occur regularly in landscapes around the world, from rainforests to
\n grasslands.
\n But in 2019 \u2013 a year with only slightly less-than-usual rainfall \u2013 the burning
\n of large
\n swathes of the Amazon forest and Indonesia\u2019s peatlands ignited a global sense of
\n urgency.<\/p>\n

By targeting both multi-level policies and grassroots action, CIFOR has been
\n building
\n consensus on the best ways to reduce the risk of peatland fires in
\n Indonesia.<\/p>\n

With support from the Temasek Foundation, CIFOR has studied ways to foster
\n effective
\n community-based fire prevention and peatland restoration. Focusing on Dompas
\n village, in
\n the province of Riau on the island of Sumatra, researchers use participatory
\n action
\n research \u2013 a way to create social transformation through a series of intensive
\n facilitation events and actions \u2013 to support a gradual shift in local
\n communities’
\n behavior away from using fire to prepare land for farming.<\/p>\n

In partnership with the University of Riau and local communities, CIFOR piloted
\n an
\n inexpensive, community-based monitoring system that applies the \u20183R restoration
\n strategy\u2019: re-wet; re-vegetate and re-vitalize livelihoods. Using a mobile app,
\n residents measure groundwater and moisture levels in peatlands, and record
\n efforts to
\n plant trees and cash crops, and revitalize livelihoods by tracking and sharing
\n data
\n about pineapple and coconut harvests.<\/p>\n

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Dompas village is located outside the forest concessions, but another project
\n located
\n inside a forest concession aims to test a community-level business model in one
\n of two
\n test villages in Riau that use the Integrated Forestry and Farming System \u2013 a
\n commitment
\n by the Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) Group to prevent fire and improve people\u2019s
\n livelihoods.
\n The model aims to reduce the use of fire through partnerships between local
\n communities
\n and APP.<\/p>\n

Through the five-year Measurable Action for Haze- Free Sustainable Land
\n Management in
\n Southeast Asia (MAHFSA) project, a joint initiative with the ASEAN Secretariat
\n and the
\n International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), CIFOR is working to
\n develop
\n evidence-based knowledge products to promote sustainable peatlands management
\n and help
\n reduce transboundary haze.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Participatory action research is a way to work
\n together with people to foster change
\n on the ground, and at the same time to produce robust science for
\n social and
\n economic transformation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n

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Herry Purnomo<\/h4>\n

CIFOR Scientist\/IPB University Professor<\/h5>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Related links<\/h4>\n
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