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Analog Forestry
Restoring the planet’s life support systems
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
Analog Forestry 101
• What is Analog Forestry?
• The Analog Forestry way–Analog Forestry methods–Mimicking nature–12 Principles
• Forest products
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
Analog Forestry 101
• What is Analog Forestry?
• The Analog Forestry way–Analog Forestry methods–Mimicking nature–12 Principles
• Forest products
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
What is Analog Forestry?
Analog forestry is an ecological restoration tool that helps to restore the life support systems of the planet – represented by
healthy, biodiverse ecosystems
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
What is Analog Forestry?Analog Forestry is based in interventions for small farmers and indigenous communies to maintain and restore their forests
while improving their income and livelihoods
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
Analog Forestry
Biology: An organ or structure that is
similar in function to one in another kind of organism.
Chemistry: A structural
derivative of a parent compound that often differs
from it by a single element.
The science of planting and taking
care of trees and managing forests
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
Planting forests that are similar in architectural structures and ecological functions to the original
climax forest.
Analog Forestry
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
Analog Forestry as a restoration tool
Creation of ecologically stable and socio-economically productive landscapes
Ecological restoration of life support systems
History
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
• Initially practiced in Guatemala and California in the 1970s
• Based on the traditional ‘home gardens’ of tropical Asia
• Concepts were tested on the ground in Sri Lanka in 1983
• The International Analog Forestry Network was created in 1996 to develop and popularize the AF model
Why restoration?
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
The world’s life support systems are threatened by deforestation, monoculture plantations, landgrabs
and the degradation of forest ecosystems, all of which should be seen as opportunities for
restoration
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
Analog Forestry as a silviculture method
Augments biodiversity for resilience and productivity
Minimizes external inputs, such as agrochemicals and fossil fuels
Complex and holistic form of silviculture
Analog Forestry 101
• What is Analog Forestry?
• The Analog Forestry way–Analog Forestry methods–Mimicking nature–12 Principles
• Forest products
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
The Analog Forest way
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
1. Record the structure of the natural forest with the help of a physiognomic formula
2. Mapping and ecological evaluation of the degraded area that shall be reforested
The Analog Forest way
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
3. Use a database to find out about the properties of the plants you want to grow
4. Design your food forest
The Analog Forest way
Design(Map)
Structure(Formula)
Function(Database)
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
Mimicking nature
Observe and record the architecture and ecological functions of the natural forest
Use ecological succession to reach your goal of a mature ecosystem
Select species that are analogous in structure and function to plants in the mature forest
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
Following succession
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
12 Analog Forestry Principles
7. Be guided by the landscape
4. Identify levels of yield
1. Observe and record
2. Understand and evaluate
3. Know your land
9. Use ecological processes
5. Map flows and reservoirs
8. Follow ecological succession
12. Respond creatively
6. Reduce external inputs
10. Value Biodiversity
11. Respect maturity
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
Analog Forestry 101
• What is Analog Forestry?
• The Analog Forestry way–Analog Forestry methods–Mimicking nature–12 Principles
• Forest products
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
Forest Products• Analog Forestry aims to
create ecologically stable and socio-economically productive landscapes
• Emphasizes production of a diversity of useful and marketable goods and services from the forest
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
Certification• The Forest Garden
Products certification standard markets products derived from Analog Forestry
• Producers adhere to organic principles while increasing biodiversity
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
Restoring the planet’s life-support systems.
Forest products
Australia: Ballarat Tree Growers; Total Ecosystem
Management
Belgium: WeForest
Cameroon: CENDEP
Canada: Falls Brook Centre
Colombia: AMICHOCO
Costa Rica: ARBOFILIA; CCBA; Eco Era
Cuba: Agroforestry Research Institute
Dominican Republic: ENDA-Dom
Ecuador: ClimAmbiente
France: Guayapi
India: India Development Project;
Sahajasamrudha
Sri Lanka: Conservation Carbon Company;
F.G.P; FSHS; Rainforest Rescue International
Netherlands: Both ENDS
Togo: Les Compagnons
Ruraux
USA: Grayson LandCare;
Institute for Cultural Ecology;
Care of Earth
Honduras: FUCSA
Philippines: NTFP-EP
Brazil: Consorcio dos Productores Sateré-Mawé
Analog Forestry around the world
Peru: Arbio