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Home > International Work > Analog Forestry Analog Forestry The IAFN-RIFA has released a position paper on global climate change during the Copenhagen Climate Change talks. Click here to read it. Analog forestry is an innovative agro-forestry system that explicitly links biodiversity restoration and the protection and enhancement of environmental services with meeting the immediate economic needs of the rural poor on a sustainable basis.
Biodiversity Restoration through Analog Forestry is a system of landscape management that seeks to establish a tree dominated ecosystem analogous in architectural structure and ecological function to the original climax or sub-climax vegetation community.
The restoration project is designed to re-create the structure of the local natural forest ecosystem by planting trees and other plants that fulfill the ecological functions of the forest while simultaneously providing products for the family’s nutritional or medicinal needs, or for processing and sale in the marketplace to increase family income. Local and traditional knowledge of plants, their role in the ecosystem and their role in meeting livelihood needs is an essential component of analog forestry. Traditional knowledge is combined with a scientific understanding of ecological succession and other species that could be safely added to a restoration project to provide additional non-timber products to contribute to family health and well-being.
Biodiversity protection and livelihood issues are inescapably intertwined; reducing rural poverty also helps to reduce unsustainable land use and harvesting pressure on forests.
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