Working Landscapes
By promoting climate-smart landscapes, the Working Landscapes programme will contribute to climate change mitigation, adaptation, improved livelihoods, and environmental integrity, which are crucial to achieving the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Participatory Three Dimensional Mapping in the Upper Suriname River Area
The Upper Suriname River area is one of the most populated river areas in the hinterland. This forested area is a productive landscape that provides ecosystem goods and services for the livelihoods of its inhabitants, as well as large spans of habitat for biodiversity and freshwater resources.
Inception Forest Management and Empowerment of Wayana Indigenous Communities in South Suriname
Situated in the northeastern part of South America, the Guiana Shield is formed by French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana and parts of Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia. The region is considered the most untouched and pristine area of rain forest in the world, with a huge potential for conservation and sustainable development.
Participatory Mapping, Ecosystem Service Assessment, and Resilience Against Climate Change
Hinterland villages are a typical component of a productive landscape: a forested area where several activities occur at the same time. Apart from the living area of villages, there are activities such as, agriculture, collection of forest products, hunting and fishing, logging, tourism, mining, and infrastructural works.
Community Consultations for Developing a National REDD+ Strategy
Suriname has been engaged in REDD since 2008, which later developed into REDD+. In 2013 the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) approved the Readiness Preparation Proposal (R-PP). The REDD+ readiness preparation phase in Suriname fosters openness, participation and transparency, improved data collection and analysis, and national and multi-sectoral dialogue and cooperation.
Lesser Known Timber Species
Suriname has a total land surface of 163,820 km2, of which 94% is covered with forests. Forest Management principles are based on the Celos Management System which has been developed in Suriname in the sixties until the eighties. Based on the Celos Harvesting System, the annual allowable cut is 25 m3 per ha and the cycle is 25 years.
Multi-scale Modeling of Ecosystem Services and Land-use Scenarios in the Upper Suriname River Basin
The upper Suriname River area is home to about 60 Maroon villages which combined have about 15,000 people that depend on the surrounding forests for their livelihood. Additionally this forest provides other ecosystem services of great importance for Suriname, such as the potential to store carbon (that supports the national REDD+ strategy).
Sustainable Management of Forest Resources for Village Development
Sustainable use of community forests will contribute to the development of the hinterland communities in Suriname and long-term maintenance of the ecosystem services provided by these forests.
Improvement of the Economic Sustainability of Natural Forest Management in Suriname
This project aims to utilize a sustainable forest management system that focuses on the tendering of potential crop trees, in preference to the CELOS management system (CMS). As a spin-off of the project, some of the CELOS (Centre for Agricultural Research in Suriname) experimental plots will be re-measured to show the long-term effects of CMS.
Formulation of a Code of Practice (CoP) for Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) in Suriname
Until now the Suriname forest sector (both commercial loggers and community based forestry) lacks an appropriate set of rules and regulations for sustainable forest use and management.