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Community-driven tree planting greens the neighbouring landscape

dc.contributor.authorBuxton, J
dc.contributor.authorPowell, T
dc.contributor.authorAmbler, J
dc.contributor.authorBoulton, C
dc.contributor.authorNicholson, A
dc.contributor.authorArthur, R
dc.contributor.authorLees, K
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, H
dc.contributor.authorLenton, TM
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-27T07:02:26Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-14
dc.description.abstractNature-based solutions to climate change are growing policy priorities yet remain hard to quantify. Here we use remote sensing to quantify direct and indirect benefits from community-led agroforestry by The International Small group and Tree planting program (TIST) in Kenya. Since 2005, TIST-Kenya has incentivised smallholder farmers to plant trees for agricultural benefit and to sequester CO2. We use Landsat-7 satellite imagery to examine the effect on the historically deforested landscape around Mount Kenya. We identify positive greening trends in TIST groves during 2000-2019 relative to the wider landscape. These groves cover 27,198 ha, and a further 27,750 ha of neighbouring agricultural land is also positively influenced by TIST. This positive 'spill-over' impact of TIST activity occurs at up to 360 m distance. TIST also benefits local forests, e.g. through reducing fuelwood and fodder extraction. Our results show that community-led initiatives can lead to successful landscape-scale regreening on decadal timescales.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipLeverhulme Trusten_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipA. G. Leventis Foundationen_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipUKRIen_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipAlan Turing Instituteen_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 11, article 18239en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s41598-021-96973-6
dc.identifier.grantnumberRPG-2018-046en_GB
dc.identifier.grantnumberEP/T001569/1en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/127247
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherNature Researchen_GB
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34521871en_GB
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2021. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4. 0/.en_GB
dc.titleCommunity-driven tree planting greens the neighbouring landscapeen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2021-09-27T07:02:26Z
exeter.place-of-publicationEnglanden_GB
dc.descriptionThis is the final version. Available on open access from Nature Research via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.identifier.eissn2045-2322
dc.identifier.journalScientific Reportsen_GB
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4. 0/en_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2021-08-17
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rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2021-09-27T06:59:25Z
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refterms.dateFOA2021-09-27T07:03:11Z
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© The Author(s) 2021. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4. 0/.
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