Criticising Nepal's Highly Successful Community Forestry is a NO-NO in mainstream environmental discourse of Nepal but here my students are encouraged to critique even so called successful sustainable development programs such as community forestry in Nepal.
Ghan Shyam Pandey: The Role of Forest Communities in the Forest Tenure Reform...Rights and Resources
Day 2, Session 3: The role and perspectives of forest communities in the forest reform process
Presentation by Ghan Shyam Pandey, Federation of Community Forestry Users, Nepal (FECOFUN)
Equity workshop: Nepal's community forestry (CF) and lessons on equity IIED
Nepal's community forestry (CF) and lessons on equity.
A presentation by Nya Sharma Paudel, ForestAction, Nepal.
This presentation was given at the Expert Workshop on Equity, Justice and Well-being in Ecosystem Governance, held at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in London, March, 2015.
Promoting best practices for joint forest management of forest resources in t...CIFOR-ICRAF
Michael Balinga, Terry Sunderland, Serge Ngendakumana, Abdon Awono, Zida Mathurin and Bouda Henri Noel
Presentation for the conference on
Taking stock of smallholders and community forestry
Montpellier France
March 24-26, 2010
Criticising Nepal's Highly Successful Community Forestry is a NO-NO in mainstream environmental discourse of Nepal but here my students are encouraged to critique even so called successful sustainable development programs such as community forestry in Nepal.
Ghan Shyam Pandey: The Role of Forest Communities in the Forest Tenure Reform...Rights and Resources
Day 2, Session 3: The role and perspectives of forest communities in the forest reform process
Presentation by Ghan Shyam Pandey, Federation of Community Forestry Users, Nepal (FECOFUN)
Equity workshop: Nepal's community forestry (CF) and lessons on equity IIED
Nepal's community forestry (CF) and lessons on equity.
A presentation by Nya Sharma Paudel, ForestAction, Nepal.
This presentation was given at the Expert Workshop on Equity, Justice and Well-being in Ecosystem Governance, held at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in London, March, 2015.
Promoting best practices for joint forest management of forest resources in t...CIFOR-ICRAF
Michael Balinga, Terry Sunderland, Serge Ngendakumana, Abdon Awono, Zida Mathurin and Bouda Henri Noel
Presentation for the conference on
Taking stock of smallholders and community forestry
Montpellier France
March 24-26, 2010
Smallholder and community forest management in the tropics: what we know and ...CIFOR-ICRAF
Communities now own or manage a quarter of the world’s tropical forests, but the case studies in this presentation illustrate the many key challenges remaining for smallholder and community forest management in the tropics. For example, the customary rights of smallholders and communities are still not properly recognised; there are discrepancies between the law and the reality in forest management and use; and there are difficulties in linking communities to markets.
CIFOR scientist Amy Duchelle explains how the smallholder and community forest management model came about, and where we need to go next. She gave this presentation on 16 June 2012 as part of the Forest Stewardship Council’s side event at Rio+20. She was answering the topic “Focussing on smallholders and forest communities: achievements and challenges at the local level”.
A Brief Overview on Social Forestry Issues of MyanmarCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation, given at the ASFN 6th conference at Inle Lake in June 2015, provides a framework for discussion and further research for the promotion and development of social forestry on a large scale.
A Future for Social Forestry in the Indonesia and ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)CIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Wiratno, Director of Social Forestry Development and chairperson of the ASFN Secretariat given during the Forests Asia Summit in the Discussion Forum "Social Forestry and Sustainable Value Chains for a Green Community in ASEAN" focuses on social forestry as a solution to forestry problems in Indonesia.
Community forestry. Where and why has devolution of forest rights contributed...IFPRI-PIM
Presentation for the webinar organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (www.pim.cgiar.org) on August 29, 2017. Steven Lawry, Director of Equity, Gender and Tenure research program at Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) summarized findings of selected meta-analyses, presented case studies from Nepal, Guatemala, and Mexico, and previewed emerging research looking at the investment effects of community forestry models that feature strong elements of forest rights devolution.
Upland forest restoration and livelihoods in AsiaCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation was given by CIFOR scientist Louis Putzel at the APFNet Workshop on Degraded Forest Rehabilitation and Sustainable Forest Management in Kunming on 10 July 2014.
The presentation gives an overview of the findings of a comparative study on sloping land restoration in three different countries in Asia
From the 2019 NACD Summer Conservation Forum and Tour.
With the increased occurrence of catastrophic fires and droughts, managing woodlands and forests has taken on an increase importance. Learn about different forest management techniques and how they impact the community.
FLR in Ghana - Lessons learned and the Way ForwardGPFLR
Presentation by Dominic Blay on Forest Landscape Restoration in Ghana. Dominic Blay discusses what is needed with regard to political and institutional change for FLR to succeed in Ghana.
Presented by Manuel R. Guariguata (CIFOR) at the World Conference on Ecological Restoration (SER 2017) in Foz do Iguassu, Paraná (Brazil), on August 28, 2017.
Session: Symposium – Deciphering the land: Using landscape attributes to estimate the potential for natural regeneration of tropical forests.
Smallholder and community forest management in the tropics: what we know and ...CIFOR-ICRAF
Communities now own or manage a quarter of the world’s tropical forests, but the case studies in this presentation illustrate the many key challenges remaining for smallholder and community forest management in the tropics. For example, the customary rights of smallholders and communities are still not properly recognised; there are discrepancies between the law and the reality in forest management and use; and there are difficulties in linking communities to markets.
CIFOR scientist Amy Duchelle explains how the smallholder and community forest management model came about, and where we need to go next. She gave this presentation on 16 June 2012 as part of the Forest Stewardship Council’s side event at Rio+20. She was answering the topic “Focussing on smallholders and forest communities: achievements and challenges at the local level”.
A Brief Overview on Social Forestry Issues of MyanmarCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation, given at the ASFN 6th conference at Inle Lake in June 2015, provides a framework for discussion and further research for the promotion and development of social forestry on a large scale.
A Future for Social Forestry in the Indonesia and ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)CIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Wiratno, Director of Social Forestry Development and chairperson of the ASFN Secretariat given during the Forests Asia Summit in the Discussion Forum "Social Forestry and Sustainable Value Chains for a Green Community in ASEAN" focuses on social forestry as a solution to forestry problems in Indonesia.
Community forestry. Where and why has devolution of forest rights contributed...IFPRI-PIM
Presentation for the webinar organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (www.pim.cgiar.org) on August 29, 2017. Steven Lawry, Director of Equity, Gender and Tenure research program at Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) summarized findings of selected meta-analyses, presented case studies from Nepal, Guatemala, and Mexico, and previewed emerging research looking at the investment effects of community forestry models that feature strong elements of forest rights devolution.
Upland forest restoration and livelihoods in AsiaCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation was given by CIFOR scientist Louis Putzel at the APFNet Workshop on Degraded Forest Rehabilitation and Sustainable Forest Management in Kunming on 10 July 2014.
The presentation gives an overview of the findings of a comparative study on sloping land restoration in three different countries in Asia
From the 2019 NACD Summer Conservation Forum and Tour.
With the increased occurrence of catastrophic fires and droughts, managing woodlands and forests has taken on an increase importance. Learn about different forest management techniques and how they impact the community.
FLR in Ghana - Lessons learned and the Way ForwardGPFLR
Presentation by Dominic Blay on Forest Landscape Restoration in Ghana. Dominic Blay discusses what is needed with regard to political and institutional change for FLR to succeed in Ghana.
Presented by Manuel R. Guariguata (CIFOR) at the World Conference on Ecological Restoration (SER 2017) in Foz do Iguassu, Paraná (Brazil), on August 28, 2017.
Session: Symposium – Deciphering the land: Using landscape attributes to estimate the potential for natural regeneration of tropical forests.
Political Conflicts and Community Forestry: Understanding the Impact of the D...CAPRi
Presented at the CAPRi International Workshop on Collective Action, Property Rights, and Conflict in Natural Resources Management. June 28th to July 1st, 2010, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
http://www.capri.cgiar.org/wks_0610.asp
Key baseline findings for USAID's Community-Based Forest Management Program (CFP) impact evaluation in Zambia. Presented at the American Evaluation Association's Evaluation 2015 Conference. Credit:
- Heather Huntington, PhD, The Cloudburst Group
- M. Mercedes Stickler, USAID
- Stephanie Fenner, The Cloudburst Group
- Aleta Haflett, The Cloudburst Group
Learn more: http://bit.ly/TCGcbfp
Risk coping in swidden livelihoods and the potential of REDD+ in Laos CIFOR-ICRAF
Abstract this presernation refers to. This paper examines the risk coping strategies of swidden farmers in Phonxai district of northern Laos, where management of forest and agriculture mosaics is a traditional land use strategy that is well attuned to managing risks. The remaining forests in Lao PDR are largely found in these swidden landscapes where swidden farmers are frequently disadvantaged minority peoples with limited land rights. Misconceptions about swidden are common in Laos – swidden is considered as the major driver of deforestation and forest degradation, and its potential for delivery of ecosystem services over the longer term is largely ignored. As such, policies are in place to restrict swidden, affecting livelihood and landscape sustainability.
We used mixed methods to understand local livelihoods and risk coping strategies. The farmers rely heavily on kinship support and frequently adapt their swidden fields and fallows in response to market signals. We also used field-based games to assess how swidden farmers will respond to forest incentives such as PES or REDD+. The games structure delivery of incentives in the form of individual actions, communal performance and as a form of insurance – mimicking livelihood and coping strategies. The group-oriented incentives provide highest impact in reducing forest use. Results suggest that well-designed incentives can complement forest management within swidden landscapes.
This presentation was given by Grace Wong at the IUFRO conference in Beijing, China that was held from October 24-27, 2016.
Forest landscape restoration in Kenya: Addressing gender equalityCGIAR
This presentation was given by Markus Ihalainen (Center for International Forestry Research), as part of the Annual Scientific Conference hosted by the University of Canberra and co-sponsored by the University of Canberra, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on April 2-4, 2019 in Canberra, Australia.
Read more: https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/faculty-research-centres/aisc/seeds-of-change and https://gender.cgiar.org/annual-conference-2019/
Development of Village Institutions for Equitable & Sustainable Access to Nat...copppldsecretariat
This Good Practice Note illustrates the practice of local institutional development and its role in pro-poor livestock development in the context of village Jhabla in Udaipur district of Rajasthan in the western part of India.
The work initiated by Seva Mandir in late 1980s has borne fruit as after two decades it demonstrates its robustness in gripping local community dynamics and assisting in providing better opportunities for livestock rearing. It highlights the need to reconsider inclusion of communities in governing their natural resources especially the forests and open pasture lands, which is a step in the right direction.
[ Originally posted on http://www.cop-ppld.net/cop_knowledge_base ]
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
2. Role of leasehold forestry in poverty alleviation: a case of Hadikhola VDC, Makwanpur District Advisory Committee N. P. Gupta (Chairman) S. N. Tiwary (Member) N. R. Devkota, PhD. (Member) Presenter Kanchan Joshi M. Sc. Ag. (Extension) 2006 IAAS, Rampur, Chitwan “Kandaghari ka” kabuliyati ban
5. Introduction (contd.) Government’s top priority CF Limited positive impact of CF in livelihood of poor CBLF Policy formulated in 1991, to address the poverty issues NPC declared LF as a priority program for poverty alleviation in hillsin 1998
6. Concept of leasehold forestry (Contd.) Leasing degraded forestland to poor communities on 40-year lease basis Group of 5-10 people having 0.5 ha of private family land, and an annual income of US $ 45 2nd highest priority in forest policy act DOF, DOLS, ADB/N, NARC and IFAD Implemented in 30 hill districts
7. Statement of the problem - Poverty wide spread on hills - High dependency on forest products causing overexploitation - Equity & justice aspects ignored in CF - Lack of adequate information –new concept
8. Rationale of the study Poverty alleviation,major issue for devt. Leasehold forestry– tool of poverty alleviation In LF, forest assets redistributed to poor Emphasis on fodder and livestock mgmt. HLFFDP focus on forage prod. to increase income by livestock Emphasis on women Deforestation affect them more Their involvement make devt. sustainable
9. Research objectives Determine levels of HH income generation from HLFFDP, determine the relationship between HLFFDP, livestock raising and forage production activities, assess the status of poverty situation of the lessees', analyse the impact of HLFFDP on women's overall development (focusing on household decision-making), assess the role of HLFFDP in reducing work burden of men and women in line with livestock management, and identify problems and benefits of LF
12. Methodology Studysite:Hadikhola VDC, Makwanpur district Number of LFUGs (population):31 groups (204 HHs) Sample size:100 lessee + 37 non lessee = 137 respondents Sampling technique – purposive sampling Data collection procedures Secondary information PRA Household survey Data analysis simple descriptive statistics (mean/percentage), regression analysis, lorenz curve and Gini ratio Paired & independent sample mean test
13. Major findings Socio-demographic characteristics Avg. family size– 6.51 (lessee) & 4.86 (non lessee) Major occupation –Agriculture (84.67 %) Major caste group – Brahmin and Chhetri Economically active population– 62.09 % Avg. land size – 0.49 ha (lessee), 0.40 ha (non lessee)
14. Major findings (Contd.) Average income of the lessees increased Before project:NRs. 10,609.00 After project:NRs. 46818.25** (t = -10.626, df = 99, ** = Significant at 1 % p-levels)
15. Major findings (Contd.) However, income inequality do exist Gini coefficient = 0.39 (where, 0=perfect equity, 1= max. inequality)
16. Lorenz curve for distribution of gross income per HH of the lessees
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18. Major findings (contd.) Exotic forage species introduced Forage sufficiency increased (1%-96%) Stall feeding adopted (a/c to 92% respondents) Work burden reduced and time saved Avg. time saved in fodder collection – 4.083 hrs
19. Major findings (contd.) Time reallocated in veg. farm and livestock rearing 86 % reported increase in food sufficiency Different trainings given by HLFFDP Capacity enhanced, confidence built up Women empowered and decision making capacity increased – improving their quality of life
20. Major findings (contd.) Table 6. Decision making process in access to and control over income of lessees in the study area Source: field survey, 2006
21. Major findings (Contd.) Major problem in the LF - Illegal grazing (78.0 %) - Encroachment (53.0 %) - Land slide (34.0 %) - Flood (23.0 %)
24. Table 7. Benefits of leasehold forestry perceived by sampled lessee households.
25. Conclusions Average income increased of lessees but inequality did exist Reduction in work burden, opening new scope for improving social & financial status of lessees due to save in timeE.g.: Livestock activities & commercial veg. cultivation increased Fodder easily available - preference shifted from cow to buffalo, buck to castrated male goat
26. Conclusions (contd.) Food security improved due to project activities Women’s decision making capacity increased Hence, in overall poverty situation decreased.
27. Recommendations Regularsupervision needed Special package program focusing to poorest HHs needed to improve their financial status (site specific) Lessees doubted about future access to and control over the forest produces, legal framework needed Should address difficulties in transfer and inheritance of leased land
28. Recommendations (Contd.) Co-operative and micro-financial activity weak, need of improvement Govt. should harmonize leasehold concept in CF for sustainable forest mgmt. as forest access is important to others as well
29. Thank You Advisory committee Funding agency – Winrock Nepal, DLGSP-UN Nepal Respondents Friends and ColleaguesRehabilitated leasehold site Line AgenciesSwami kokholsi, Hadikhola - 6