Christopher Martius - Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Christine Fung - GIZ Fiji, Pacific Community (SPC)
…and the organizations hosting sessions in Stream 2
Presented by Dr. Nur Masripatin, General Director of Climate for the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia. Presented at the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit http://www.cifor.org/asia-pacific-rainforest-summit/
Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions in Agriculture: An International P...World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
Peter A Minang (ICRAF and ASB Partnership For the Tropical Forest Margins) presentation on Nationally Appropriate Climate Change Mitigation Actions in Agriculture (NAMAs): An International Perspective. NAMAs are sets of policies and actions undertaken by developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Restoring our rainforests: Bonn Challenge and Forest Landscape RestorationCIFOR-ICRAF
Chetan Kumar of the Global Forest and Climate Change Program
of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Presented at the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit http://www.cifor.org/asia-pacific-rainforest-summit/
Keeping track of forests: systems for measurement, reporting and verification...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Dr. Haruni Krisnawati, Senior Researcher of the
Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia. Presented at the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit http://www.cifor.org/asia-pacific-rainforest-summit/
The Restoration Agenda: Some Practical Issues. By
Lalisa A. Duguma, Anthony Kimaro and Peter Minang - ICRAF
Some countries are transitioning from commitment to implementation and a number of important issues need to be well articulated. Looks at social, economic and practical considerations, with reference to the Shinyanga restoration success in Tanzania
Demonstration of PNG Forest Monitoring and REDD+ Web PortalCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation was delivered at the third Asia-Pacific Forestry Week 2016, in Clark Freeport Zone, Philippines.
The five sub-thematic streams at APFW 2016 included:
Pathways to prosperity: Future trade and markets
Tackling climate change: challenges and opportunities
Serving society: forestry and people
New institutions, new governance
Our green future: green investment and growing our natural assets
Presented by Dr. Nur Masripatin, General Director of Climate for the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia. Presented at the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit http://www.cifor.org/asia-pacific-rainforest-summit/
Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions in Agriculture: An International P...World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
Peter A Minang (ICRAF and ASB Partnership For the Tropical Forest Margins) presentation on Nationally Appropriate Climate Change Mitigation Actions in Agriculture (NAMAs): An International Perspective. NAMAs are sets of policies and actions undertaken by developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Restoring our rainforests: Bonn Challenge and Forest Landscape RestorationCIFOR-ICRAF
Chetan Kumar of the Global Forest and Climate Change Program
of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Presented at the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit http://www.cifor.org/asia-pacific-rainforest-summit/
Keeping track of forests: systems for measurement, reporting and verification...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Dr. Haruni Krisnawati, Senior Researcher of the
Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia. Presented at the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit http://www.cifor.org/asia-pacific-rainforest-summit/
The Restoration Agenda: Some Practical Issues. By
Lalisa A. Duguma, Anthony Kimaro and Peter Minang - ICRAF
Some countries are transitioning from commitment to implementation and a number of important issues need to be well articulated. Looks at social, economic and practical considerations, with reference to the Shinyanga restoration success in Tanzania
Demonstration of PNG Forest Monitoring and REDD+ Web PortalCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation was delivered at the third Asia-Pacific Forestry Week 2016, in Clark Freeport Zone, Philippines.
The five sub-thematic streams at APFW 2016 included:
Pathways to prosperity: Future trade and markets
Tackling climate change: challenges and opportunities
Serving society: forestry and people
New institutions, new governance
Our green future: green investment and growing our natural assets
Presentation of the Government of Vietnam to the First Global Conference on Reporting for Results-based REDD+, January 2018, Milan, Italy. Reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and related forest conservation.
Measurement Reporting Verification system in Papua New GuineaCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Alfred Rungol of the Climate Change & Development Authority of Papua New Guinea at the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit. http://www.cifor.org/asia-pacific-rainforest-summit/
Indonesia as the highest CO2 emitter from land-based sector. Peatland restoration is a high global priority. Policies and regulation reflecting good-will and ability are crucial. There are challenges, which agroforestry can solve.
Presentation at 2nd Meeting of the Thematic Working Group on Agriculture, Food Security and Land Use.
Rome, FAO
6-7 March 2018
By Godefroy Grosjean, CIAT
and Lini Wollenberg, CCAFS and University of Vermont
REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation)Janathakshan Gte Ltd
The presentation prepared by Janathakshan on REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) initiative in Sri Lanka. SL became a UN-REDD partner country in 2009. Government fo Sri Lanka (GoSL) through the forest department (FD), department of wildlife conservation (DWC) and the CCS with many stakeholders and support of 3 UN organisations has jointly implemented a UN-REDD National Program (2013 to 2017).
Presentation by Lini Wollenberg, Flagship Leader for CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture Food Security Low-Emissions Development flagship. The presentation was part of the Webinar on Soil carbon in the Nationally Determined Contributions hosted by CCAFS, the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture, and the 4 Per Mille Initiative and held on Earth Day, 22 April 2020.
Global Comparative Study on REDD+: Knowledge for action to protect tropical f...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Pham Thu Thuy (CIFOR-ICRAF) at "Science and Public Policy Platform Dialogue I: REDD+ implementation in DRC after COP26 and the signing of the second Letter of Intent (LoI): Priorities, legal and policy frameworks and contributions of the GCS-REDD+ project" on 14 Dec 2021
Enhancing transparency in the land sector under the Paris Agreement: Bringing...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Steven Lawry, Research Director for Governance, at the National Workshop on Translating Transparency Framework under the Paris Agreement into National Context, 26 January 2017, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Presentation by Dr.Henry Neufeldt at the event titled “Technology Transfer for Adaptation and Mitigation in Natural Resource Management via the UNFCCC’s Climate Technology Centre and Network: Examples from Africa” hosted at the African Pavilion, COP22, Marrakech, Morocco, 2016. See more: http://www.worldagroforestry.org/COP22/Climate-Technology-Transfer-for-African-countries-through-the-Climate-Technology-Centre-and-Network
Anticipating impacts on smallholder farmers, fishers and pastoralists, and how to engage in the UNFCCC? 
Presentation by James Kinyangi, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), at the 21 October 2015 Webinar on Agriculture in the UNFCCC Negotiations . Watch: https://youtu.be/1Qo9ZQNjsCs
This two-hour webinar provided an overview of where and how agriculture is positioned in the UNFCCC climate negotiations, and it presents a series of resources for advocates and communicators to engage meaningfully in the UNFCCC process. It was aimed at climate change negotiators, their technical advisors and any agricultural organisation interested in food security and climate change.
"Challenges, opportunities and priorities for transitioning to low emissions agriculture" was presented by Lini Wollenberg at a NUI Galway seminar on January 30, 2020.
Presentation of the Government of Vietnam to the First Global Conference on Reporting for Results-based REDD+, January 2018, Milan, Italy. Reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and related forest conservation.
Measurement Reporting Verification system in Papua New GuineaCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Alfred Rungol of the Climate Change & Development Authority of Papua New Guinea at the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit. http://www.cifor.org/asia-pacific-rainforest-summit/
Indonesia as the highest CO2 emitter from land-based sector. Peatland restoration is a high global priority. Policies and regulation reflecting good-will and ability are crucial. There are challenges, which agroforestry can solve.
Presentation at 2nd Meeting of the Thematic Working Group on Agriculture, Food Security and Land Use.
Rome, FAO
6-7 March 2018
By Godefroy Grosjean, CIAT
and Lini Wollenberg, CCAFS and University of Vermont
REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation)Janathakshan Gte Ltd
The presentation prepared by Janathakshan on REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) initiative in Sri Lanka. SL became a UN-REDD partner country in 2009. Government fo Sri Lanka (GoSL) through the forest department (FD), department of wildlife conservation (DWC) and the CCS with many stakeholders and support of 3 UN organisations has jointly implemented a UN-REDD National Program (2013 to 2017).
Presentation by Lini Wollenberg, Flagship Leader for CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture Food Security Low-Emissions Development flagship. The presentation was part of the Webinar on Soil carbon in the Nationally Determined Contributions hosted by CCAFS, the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture, and the 4 Per Mille Initiative and held on Earth Day, 22 April 2020.
Global Comparative Study on REDD+: Knowledge for action to protect tropical f...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Pham Thu Thuy (CIFOR-ICRAF) at "Science and Public Policy Platform Dialogue I: REDD+ implementation in DRC after COP26 and the signing of the second Letter of Intent (LoI): Priorities, legal and policy frameworks and contributions of the GCS-REDD+ project" on 14 Dec 2021
Enhancing transparency in the land sector under the Paris Agreement: Bringing...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Steven Lawry, Research Director for Governance, at the National Workshop on Translating Transparency Framework under the Paris Agreement into National Context, 26 January 2017, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Presentation by Dr.Henry Neufeldt at the event titled “Technology Transfer for Adaptation and Mitigation in Natural Resource Management via the UNFCCC’s Climate Technology Centre and Network: Examples from Africa” hosted at the African Pavilion, COP22, Marrakech, Morocco, 2016. See more: http://www.worldagroforestry.org/COP22/Climate-Technology-Transfer-for-African-countries-through-the-Climate-Technology-Centre-and-Network
Anticipating impacts on smallholder farmers, fishers and pastoralists, and how to engage in the UNFCCC? 
Presentation by James Kinyangi, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), at the 21 October 2015 Webinar on Agriculture in the UNFCCC Negotiations . Watch: https://youtu.be/1Qo9ZQNjsCs
This two-hour webinar provided an overview of where and how agriculture is positioned in the UNFCCC climate negotiations, and it presents a series of resources for advocates and communicators to engage meaningfully in the UNFCCC process. It was aimed at climate change negotiators, their technical advisors and any agricultural organisation interested in food security and climate change.
"Challenges, opportunities and priorities for transitioning to low emissions agriculture" was presented by Lini Wollenberg at a NUI Galway seminar on January 30, 2020.
Addressing agriculture, forestry and fisheries in national adaptation plans FAO
http://www.fao.org/in-action/naps/en/
This presentation by Julia Wolf, FAO Coordinator for the joint FAO-UNDP NAP-Ag, was held during a FAO/FTA consultation on “Supplementary guidelines for addressing forestry and agroforestry in National Adaptation Plans”, 2 May 2018 in Bonn, Germany.
This synthesis review, prepared with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation,
is a companion report to the evaluation of the Foundation’s work on African
Agriculture Resilience (AAR) and Carbon for Poverty Reduction (CPR). The synthesis
review seeks to identify lessons from a broad range of efforts to build climate resilient
agriculture and reduce poverty through carbon markets in Africa. The Rockefeller
Foundation and its grantees and partners are interested in learning not only from the
Foundation’s work but from the work of others, in order to gain a better understanding
of what constitutes successful activities for building climate resilient agriculture
and what works and does not work in carbon projects for poverty reduction in the
agricultural sector.
Agriculture continues to play a key role in the formal economies and in sustaining
local livelihoods in Africa. Climate change, in combination with widespread levels of
poverty and food insecurity, could potentially have large impacts on the well-being of
smallholder farmers and economic growth in the region. Climate resilient agricultural
development and carbon markets for poverty reduction are rapidly emerging as key
issues for development policy and practice. In ensuring that African agriculture is
resilient to the changing climate, it has become imperative to protect livelihoods and
to reduce food insecurity. At the same time, the emerging market for carbon may offer
new possibilities for agriculture to benefit from land use management practices that
sequester carbon, which could, in turn, contribute to poverty reduction.
The report first briefly introduces current debates surrounding AAR and CPR. In spite
of wide agreement about the need for AAR and CPR efforts in the region, determining
the best ways to approach them remains a contentious and uncertain challenge. The
report also examines ongoing AAR- and CPR-type work in the region, based on a rapid
desk-based screening of existing programs and projects, and on analyses available in
the public domain. Tables 1 and 2 summarize reviewed practices, key findings and
early lessons for reviewed adaptation and carbon activities, respectively.
Approaches to Transformative Adaptation in Agriculture FAO
The NAP Expo at Sharm El Sheikh focussed on transformational change in the National Adaptation plan process. The Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans team presented at the forum “Long-term adaptation planning and transformation” titled “Approaches to transformative adaptation in agriculture” highlighting that transformative role FAO has in adapting agriculture to Climate Change. This PowerPoint was presented by Claudia Garcia of the Climate and Environment Division
experts take a deep dive into the critical issues and challenges surrounding greenhouse gas accounting in the land sector.
Learn more at https://www.wri.org/events/2019/10/webinar-digging-land-sector-ghg-accounting-under-paris-agreement
Presented by Terry Sunderland, CIFOR Principal Scientist and Team Leader, Sustainable Landscapes and Food Systems, on 8 December 2016 at a CGIAR-CBD Linkages side event at CBD COP13, Cancun, Mexico.
Presentation given by Robert Zomer at ICRAF’s Science Week, 5-9 September 2016 in Nairobi. During Science Week, researchers with the World Agroforestry Centre also discussed their work under the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry.
Phenomics assisted breeding in crop improvementIshaGoswami9
As the population is increasing and will reach about 9 billion upto 2050. Also due to climate change, it is difficult to meet the food requirement of such a large population. Facing the challenges presented by resource shortages, climate
change, and increasing global population, crop yield and quality need to be improved in a sustainable way over the coming decades. Genetic improvement by breeding is the best way to increase crop productivity. With the rapid progression of functional
genomics, an increasing number of crop genomes have been sequenced and dozens of genes influencing key agronomic traits have been identified. However, current genome sequence information has not been adequately exploited for understanding
the complex characteristics of multiple gene, owing to a lack of crop phenotypic data. Efficient, automatic, and accurate technologies and platforms that can capture phenotypic data that can
be linked to genomics information for crop improvement at all growth stages have become as important as genotyping. Thus,
high-throughput phenotyping has become the major bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Plant phenomics has been defined as the high-throughput, accurate acquisition and analysis of multi-dimensional phenotypes
during crop growing stages at the organism level, including the cell, tissue, organ, individual plant, plot, and field levels. With the rapid development of novel sensors, imaging technology,
and analysis methods, numerous infrastructure platforms have been developed for phenotyping.
Deep Behavioral Phenotyping in Systems Neuroscience for Functional Atlasing a...Ana Luísa Pinho
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides means to characterize brain activations in response to behavior. However, cognitive neuroscience has been limited to group-level effects referring to the performance of specific tasks. To obtain the functional profile of elementary cognitive mechanisms, the combination of brain responses to many tasks is required. Yet, to date, both structural atlases and parcellation-based activations do not fully account for cognitive function and still present several limitations. Further, they do not adapt overall to individual characteristics. In this talk, I will give an account of deep-behavioral phenotyping strategies, namely data-driven methods in large task-fMRI datasets, to optimize functional brain-data collection and improve inference of effects-of-interest related to mental processes. Key to this approach is the employment of fast multi-functional paradigms rich on features that can be well parametrized and, consequently, facilitate the creation of psycho-physiological constructs to be modelled with imaging data. Particular emphasis will be given to music stimuli when studying high-order cognitive mechanisms, due to their ecological nature and quality to enable complex behavior compounded by discrete entities. I will also discuss how deep-behavioral phenotyping and individualized models applied to neuroimaging data can better account for the subject-specific organization of domain-general cognitive systems in the human brain. Finally, the accumulation of functional brain signatures brings the possibility to clarify relationships among tasks and create a univocal link between brain systems and mental functions through: (1) the development of ontologies proposing an organization of cognitive processes; and (2) brain-network taxonomies describing functional specialization. To this end, tools to improve commensurability in cognitive science are necessary, such as public repositories, ontology-based platforms and automated meta-analysis tools. I will thus discuss some brain-atlasing resources currently under development, and their applicability in cognitive as well as clinical neuroscience.
Comparing Evolved Extractive Text Summary Scores of Bidirectional Encoder Rep...University of Maribor
Slides from:
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Track: Artificial Intelligence
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
Salas, V. (2024) "John of St. Thomas (Poinsot) on the Science of Sacred Theol...Studia Poinsotiana
I Introduction
II Subalternation and Theology
III Theology and Dogmatic Declarations
IV The Mixed Principles of Theology
V Virtual Revelation: The Unity of Theology
VI Theology as a Natural Science
VII Theology’s Certitude
VIII Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
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Nutraceutical market, scope and growth: Herbal drug technologyLokesh Patil
As consumer awareness of health and wellness rises, the nutraceutical market—which includes goods like functional meals, drinks, and dietary supplements that provide health advantages beyond basic nutrition—is growing significantly. As healthcare expenses rise, the population ages, and people want natural and preventative health solutions more and more, this industry is increasing quickly. Further driving market expansion are product formulation innovations and the use of cutting-edge technology for customized nutrition. With its worldwide reach, the nutraceutical industry is expected to keep growing and provide significant chances for research and investment in a number of categories, including vitamins, minerals, probiotics, and herbal supplements.
Toxic effects of heavy metals : Lead and Arsenicsanjana502982
Heavy metals are naturally occuring metallic chemical elements that have relatively high density, and are toxic at even low concentrations. All toxic metals are termed as heavy metals irrespective of their atomic mass and density, eg. arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium, thallium, chromium, etc.
Seminar of U.V. Spectroscopy by SAMIR PANDASAMIR PANDA
Spectroscopy is a branch of science dealing the study of interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy refers to absorption spectroscopy or reflect spectroscopy in the UV-VIS spectral region.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy is an analytical method that can measure the amount of light received by the analyte.
Richard's aventures in two entangled wonderlandsRichard Gill
Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
Stream 2: Tackling Climate Change Challenges and Opportunities
1. ASIA-PACIFIC
FORESTRY WEEK 2016
GROWING OUR FUTURE!
Christopher Martius
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Christine Fung
GIZ Fiji, Pacific Community (SPC)
…and the organizations hosting sessions in Stream 2
Stream 2
Tackling Climate Change
Challenges and Opportunities
2. ASIA-PACIFIC
FORESTRY WEEK 2016
GROWING OUR FUTURE!
Organizations hosting sessions
in Stream 2
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
European Union
FAO
Forest Management Bureau – DENR, Philippines
Green Climate Fund
Japan International Cooperation Agency
Pacific Community (SPC)
PNG Climate Change and Development Authority
PNG Forest Authority
SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
The Asia Foundation (TAF)
The Program on Forests, Philippines
University of British Columbia
UN-REDD
World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF)
World Bank
3. ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY WEEK 2016
GROWING OUR FUTURE!
• UNFCCC Paris Agreement places forests high on the climate change
adaptation and mitigation agendas
• Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+)
• Sustainable Forest Management
• Joint Mitigation & Adaptation
• To be integrated with development objectives and non-carbon benefits
• REDD+ explicit goal in many Intended Nationally Determined Contributions
(INDCs)
• How to move forward?
Background I
4. ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY WEEK 2016
GROWING OUR FUTURE!
• Paris Agreement was best deal possible with 196 countries
• Immense work lies ahead
• Funding is an issue but institutional structures are key
• Complexities of bringing together all the requirements of the
agreement
• Indigenous people still often underrepresented but most affected by
land use decisions
• Negotiated participatory approaches may be key to navigating this
complexity and needs of different stakeholders
• Countries need to go for synergies to increase efficiency and
efefctiveness
• Need for capacity development
Background II: Stream 2 Plenary
5. ASIA-PACIFIC
FORESTRY WEEK 2016
GROWING OUR FUTURE!
That member countries, with the support of FAO,
enhance funding and coordination among agencies
and sectors within their country,
to strengthen actions on climate change to support
the implementation of (I)NDCs,
and share their experiences and learning at the 27th
session of APFC.
Key recommendation