Scolel Te, Mexico

Current carbon sequestration activities

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Current priorities for Scole Te

During 2006 work was undertaken to strengthen relationships and areas of management within and around communities that had previously participated on a limited basis.

A second priority during the year was the testing and improvement of monitoring systems through the use of the independent verification agency SmartWood. This verification was aimed at improving the consistency and quality with which field data is collected, which ultimately determines the ability of the project to measure its longterm carbon benefits.

The project intends to continue to work with SmartWood and the Plan Vivo secretariat to improve its systems over the coming years.

Carbon sequestration activities

Several forestry systems are used in the Scolel Te project to sequester carbon:

• The establishment of tree plantations on areas previously used as pasture, may increase carbon stored in vegetation by about 120tC/ha
• by growing timber and fruit trees interspersed with annual crops such as corn or perennial crops such as coffee, around 70tC/ha can be sequestered
• where closed forests are threatened, protection can prevent emissions of up to 300 tC/ha; and where forests are degraded, careful management and restoration can increase carbon storage by around 120tC/ha

Associated research and initiatives

The development learning and ongoing research was used to develop other Plan Vivo projects, including Trees for global Benefit, Uganda and the Nhambita Community Carbon Project, Mozambique.

Through ECOSUR, several BSc. and MSc. thesis have been produced. Topics have focused on the progress of the project, and studies have been carried out on on the growth, quality and management of the agroforestry systems as well as quantifying the benefits that local communities have obtained from the implementation of these agroforestry practices.

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