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Assessment of Forest Landscape Restoration Perspectives in Georgia Assessment of Forest Landscape Restoration Perspectives in Georgia Based on the assessment in Tianeti, Akhaltsikhe, Akhalkalaki and Chokhatauri municipalities Final Report Consulting Company „M3“ Ltd Tbilisi December 2016 Assessment of Forest Landscape Restoration Perspectives in Georgia Based on the assessment of Tianeti, Akhaltsikhe, Akhalkalaki and Chokhatauri municipalities Final Report Reference Number: ADAGEO/C/CQS/6 Provided by: Consulting Company „M3“Ltd Cover photo: Tieneti, photo by Lasha Gabelia Tbilisi, December 2016 Table of contents 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................................ 5 2. Project goals and objectives ..................................................................................................................................... 7 3. Project partners ............................................................................................................................................................... 8 4. Vision .................................................................................................................................................................................... 9 4.1. Forest Policy Concept .............................................................................................................................................. 9 4.2. Intended Nationally Determined Contribution ............................................................................................... 9 5. Summary of Work ........................................................................................................................................................ 11 5.1. Identification of assessment sites .................................................................................................................... 11 5.2. Data analysis ............................................................................................................................................................. 11 5.3. Field works .................................................................................................................................................................. 11 6. Assessment Summary .............................................................................................................................................. 13 6.1. Restoration interventions ................................................................................................................................ 13 6.2. Restoration transitions...................................................................................................................................... 13 6.3. Financial analysis ............................................................................................................................................... 14 7. Findings ............................................................................................................................................................................ 16 7.1. Tianeti ....................................................................................................................................................................... 16 7.1.1. Background .................................................................................................................................. 16 7.1.2. Restoration intervention ......................................................................................................... 17 7.1.3. Financial analysis...................................................................................................................... 18 7.2. Chokhatauri............................................................................................................................................................ 19 7.2.1. Background .................................................................................................................................. 19 7.2.2. Restoration intervention ......................................................................................................... 20 7.2.3. Financial analysis...................................................................................................................... 21 7.3. Akhaltsike................................................................................................................................................................ 21 7.3.1. Background .................................................................................................................................. 21 Fig 3. FLR map, Mikeltsminda............................................................................................................. 22 7.3.2. Restoration intervention ......................................................................................................... 23 7.3.3. Financial analysis...................................................................................................................... 23 7.4. Akhalkalaki ............................................................................................................................................................. 24 3 7.4.1. Background .................................................................................................................................. 24 7.4.2. Restoration intervention ......................................................................................................... 25 7.4.3. Financial analysis...................................................................................................................... 25 8. Summary .......................................................................................................................................................................... 26 9. References ...................................................................................................................................................................... 27 10. Annexes ........................................................................................................................................................................ 28 Annex 1. Financial Analysis ......................................................................................................................................... 28 4 1. Introduction Forest landscape restoration is the long-term process of regaining ecological functionality and enhancing human well-being across deforested or degraded forest landscapes. It is about “forests” because it involves increasing the number and/or health of trees in an area. It is about “landscapes” because it involves entire watersheds, jurisdictions, or even countries in which many land uses interact. It is about “restoration” because it involves bringing back the biological productivity of an area in order to achieve any number of benefits for people and the planet. It is “long-term” because it requires a multi-year vision of the ecological functions and benefits t human well-being that restoration will produce although tangible deliverables such as jobs, income and carbon sequestration begin to flow right away. According to a recent global assessment of restoration potential, commissioned by the GPFLR (Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration) and carried out by IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature), WRI (World Resources Institute) and the University of Maryland, there are more than two billion hectares of land around the world that would benefit from some type of restoration intervention. FLR offers the transformation of large areas of degraded and deforested land into resilient, multifunctional assets that can contribute to local and national economies, sequester significant amounts of carbon, strengthen food and clean water supplies and safeguard biodiversity.1 Many rural communities in Georgia depend on their surrounding forest and natural resource base, provided by it. In many cases this dependence is subsistence-level living. This dependence leads to continuous ‘pilfering’ of the natural resources by many individuals and this practice collectively has a serious, detrimental effect on the resource base and communities utilizing those resources. Already in 2014 IUCN carried out a Forest Dependency work in the selected regions of Tianeti, Akhaltsikhe, Akhalkalaki and Chokhatauri. The Forest Dependency (FD) work aimed at quantifying the value of forest resources in rural Georgian communities. The FD work provided valuable and quantifiable information on forest dependency. Moreover, the FD work also quantified how a fully-functioning forest contributes to rural community development. 1 A guide to the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM), Assessing forest landscape restoration opportunities at the national or sub-national level. IUCN 2015 5 Within the project on “Assessment of forest landscape restoration perspectives in Georgia” the FD study has been transitioned to testing an intervention opportunity by utilizing IUCN’s experience in Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR)2 for the above mentioned target regions of country. The work utilized the principles of IUCN’s Guide to the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM)3 to create the basis for the wider application of the FLR initiative in the country. The project “Assessment of forest landscape restoration perspectives
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