Séance 2, Séminaire Paix et Biodiversité en Colombie, AgroParisTech, 20 octobre 2017

1. Etat de l’art de la gestion de la biodiversité
dans les Pays Post-Conflit -PPC
State of the art in biodiversity management
in Post Conflict Countries -PCC
Catherine GAMBA-TRIMIÑO
catherinetrimino@gmail.com
October 20th, 2017, Paris

2. State of the art in
biodiversity management
in post-conflict countries -PCC
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What does generally happen to biodiversity
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in PCC ?
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Success stories - opportunities
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Challenges
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Research gaps
Séminaire Paix et biodiversité en Colombie.
Séance 2, 20 octobre 2017, Paris

3. Biodiversity hotspots and warfare
Numbers are biodiversity hotspots, points are armed conflicts regions.
Hanson et al., 2009. Conservation Biology

4. What does generally happen to
biodiversity in PCC?
Séminaire Paix et biodiversité en Colombie.
Séance 2, 20 octobre 2017, Paris
Countries Land-use
conflicts
Land-use
conflicts
Forest
coverages
Forest
coverages
Type of impact Positive Negative Positive Negative
Angola 2 references 2 references
Bosnia 1 reference 1
Burundi 1
El Salvador 2 1 1
Liberia
Rwanda 1 2
Sierra Leone 1
Suárez et al., 2017. Environ Dev. Sust.

5. Success stories
Forest change -in black-
between 1942-2008 at
Cutumayo Region, El
Salvador.
Valencia et al. (2011). Applied
Geography.
El Salvador, Armed conflict 1980-
1992. Peace agreement.
Cinquera, rural municipality in the
Cabañas department, bombing by
national army forced people to
leave
After 1992 people returned: crop
areas had turned into thick
secondary forests and that forest
has continued to grow after that

6. Opportunities
Community based forest management. High degree of
organization and social networking.
Multifunctional landscape: biodiversity friendly
agriculture -shade-grown coffee-, ecotourism, rural
tourism,non-timber forests products -NTFPs-
Séminaire Paix et biodiversité en Colombie.
Séance 2, 20 octobre 2017, Paris

7. Rwanda – Mountain Gorillas
Census years Total gorillas
counted
1971-1972 261
1986 279
2000 359
2003 380
Alluri, 2009. Working paper for Swiss Peace
1990 beginning of civil war
1994 genocide
Gorilla tourism
government involvement,
private sector engagement
in both peace recovery
and tourism

8. Challenges
High dependence on extractive sector
Land tenure unsolved issues
Reconstruction of social ties necessary to manage biodiversity
Lack of trust in institutions
Séminaire Paix et biodiversité en Colombie.
Séance 2, 20 octobre 2017, Paris

9. Research gaps
What does work, what does not work and in which contexts
Methodological and theorethical frameworks
Short term victories to recover trust and to move on to the long term
ones
Linkages and synergies between biodiversity friendly development
and peace building
Séminaire Paix et biodiversité en Colombie.
Séance 2, 20 octobre 2017, Paris

10. Muchas gracias !
Catherine GAMBA-TRIMIÑO
catherinetrimino@gmail.com
October 20th, 2017, Paris