Project entitled Restoration Compatible with Gender Equality and Climate Change, aims to enhance efforts on the link between low-carbon agriculture techniques, forest restoration and sustainable landscape management in Juruti-PA, Brazil. With an HDI of 0.592, the region depends on agro-extractivism and subsistence agriculture based on slash-and-burn cassava cultivation. Fallow reduced from 20 to 2 years, constant growing population, and the increase of wildfires make mandatory creation of new agriculture regenerative models to thrive under climate change conditions. The study aimed to develop participative agroforestry designs as an alternative for slash and burn in the region; prototyping and implementing modular replicable agroforestry units in a successional decision-making logic. During 2018, data collection and pairwise sessions were conducted in 25 communities (157 farmers). The analysis used selected principles, criteria, and indicators. Final adjustments were made merging local ecological knowledge, empirical information and scientific data. Result was a co-created elastic regenerative design, maximizing biomass production and high-value fruit indigenous trees within the system. Estimative annual yield per hectare for cassava is 12 ton; fruits, 24.4 tons and dry biomass, over 3.53 tons, after 4 years, according to farmers’ preferences, system can migrate to (1) agrosilvipasture, (2) perennial fruit orchard or (3) biodiverse NTFP forest. Implementation has already started in Nov-2018. With the presented design its expected to drastically improve food resilience while imputing new cash crops and creating an elastic and highly acceptable low-carbon model for amazon cassava-based agriculture, building a new productive paradigm which is sustainable, resilient and long-lasting.

07 - Developing regenerative agroforestry designs to foster gender-responsive forest restoration in the Brazilian Amazon