Presented by Graeme Applegate of the Tropical Forests and People Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia, at the 3rd Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit, on 23–25 April 2018 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1) The document discusses a case study of leasehold forestry in Hadikhola VDC, Makwanpur District of Nepal and its role in poverty alleviation.
2) Key findings show that average household income and livestock ownership increased significantly for lessee households after participating in the leasehold forestry program. However, some income inequality remained.
3) Participation in the program reduced work burdens, increased food security and decision-making power for women, while opening opportunities to improve livelihoods through livestock raising and vegetable farming.
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.
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.
Presentation by Petrus Gunarso, Tropenbos Indonesia, one several landscape restoration initiatives by the private sector, the global community and local communities in Indonesia.
Presentation prepared for the symposium "Finding common ground [for conservation] across the rangelands of Central Asia and Tibetan plateau" at Conservation Asia 2018; held in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, on August 6-10, 2018.
See http://conservationasia2018.org/.
Evaluating the impacts of REDD+ interventions on forests and peopleCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by CIFOR Scientist Amy Duchelle on behalf of the Global Comparative Study (GCS) REDD+ Subnational Initiatives research group on 12 December 2016 at CBD COP13 in Cancun, Mexico.
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.
1) The document discusses a case study of leasehold forestry in Hadikhola VDC, Makwanpur District of Nepal and its role in poverty alleviation.
2) Key findings show that average household income and livestock ownership increased significantly for lessee households after participating in the leasehold forestry program. However, some income inequality remained.
3) Participation in the program reduced work burdens, increased food security and decision-making power for women, while opening opportunities to improve livelihoods through livestock raising and vegetable farming.
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.
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.
Presentation by Petrus Gunarso, Tropenbos Indonesia, one several landscape restoration initiatives by the private sector, the global community and local communities in Indonesia.
Presentation prepared for the symposium "Finding common ground [for conservation] across the rangelands of Central Asia and Tibetan plateau" at Conservation Asia 2018; held in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, on August 6-10, 2018.
See http://conservationasia2018.org/.
Evaluating the impacts of REDD+ interventions on forests and peopleCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by CIFOR Scientist Amy Duchelle on behalf of the Global Comparative Study (GCS) REDD+ Subnational Initiatives research group on 12 December 2016 at CBD COP13 in Cancun, Mexico.
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.
Community forests in Nepal cover 25% of the country's forest land and are managed by over 14,000 local community forest user groups (CFUGs) representing 35% of Nepal's population. Under the 1993 Forest Act, national forests are handed over to CFUGs for protection, management, and sustainable use. Since 1978, community forestry has led to increased forest cover, social mobilization, income generation, and institutional development at the local level. However, challenges remain in ensuring disadvantaged groups' access, improving technical forest management, focusing on local needs, and supporting women and the poor through CFUG decision making. Overall, community forestry shows promise for sustainable forest management if democratic processes and people's participation are strengthened
1. Globalized trade and international processes like the SDGs are driving changes in timber value chains towards sustainability and a green economy.
2. Buyer preferences and requirements, especially from developed countries, are an important influence through demands for legality and certification.
3. Meeting these demands requires inclusion of small and medium enterprises through support for processes like legality verification and certification.
4. Multi-stakeholder initiatives involving government support, bottom-up participation, and consideration of impacts on vulnerable groups like women can help improve sustainability and livelihoods in the furniture industry.
The document summarizes the development of community forestry in Nepal and its achievements in promoting sustainable development. It discusses how community forestry has evolved over time through various policies and workshops. Key achievements highlighted include improved forest governance through community management, sustainable forest management practices, and enhanced local livelihoods and sustainability through community enterprises and income generation activities.
Management of Congo Basin forest resources: The quest for sustainabilityCIFOR-ICRAF
The document discusses the management of forest resources in the Congo Basin over time. It covers the evolution of the international agenda around sustainability from the 1960s onwards. It then examines policies and practices regarding wood products like timber, domestic wood, and wood energy. It also discusses non-wood products and environmental services. While awareness of issues like unsustainable harvesting and the importance of non-timber forest products has increased, the document notes that implementation of sustainable management practices and appropriate legal frameworks remain inadequate, particularly regarding issues like wood energy use and the bushmeat trade.
Economics of Peatlands Restoration in Central Kalimantan, IndonesiaDyah Puspitaloka
by Dyah Puspitaloka and Yeon-Su Kim
Tropical peatlands holds 15-19% of global peat carbon with Indonesia as the largest contributor. However, many of Indonesia's peatlands are degraded into fire-prone and non-forest vegetation. Indonesian government is trying to restore these degraded peatlands within five years. There are also several peatland restoration projects carried out by private companies and non-governmental organizations with public and private investments. However, time required for peatland restoration will vary from a few years to more than a decade depending on the damage level and for that, restoration efforts will need to be sustained beyond project durations. Thus, it is important to assess restoration practices being implemented by different types of project proponents, and analyze their costs and effectiveness. These aspects have been rarely studied, and will be the focus of this study. Using peatland restoration projects in central Kalimantan as case studies, we will assess three different types of peatland restoration projects for 1) different restoration goals and strategies of project proponents; 2) different time required for peatland restoration and its cost-implications; 3) total restoration costs, including indirect costs (i.e. opportunity costs) and direct costs, and their temporal and social distributions. Results of this study can help design future peatland restoration projects in Indonesia.
Oral Presentation at Society of American Foresters National Convention, Albuquerque, November 18, 2017
Carrots and sticks in REDD+ implementation: Implications for social safeguardsCIFOR-ICRAF
This document summarizes a study on the social impacts of REDD+ initiatives in six countries. The study compared 150 villages and 4,000 households exposed to REDD+ interventions to control groups. Interventions included regulations, incentives, or both. Households exposed to regulations alone reported decreased tenure security and well-being over time, while adding incentives helped alleviate negative effects. In Brazil, households clearing more forest were initially subjected to regulations alone, but cleared less forest after incentives were added. The study concludes that regulations can be effective but also negatively impact well-being, while incentives help address this issue. Trade-offs exist between carbon and social goals in REDD+ implementation.
Sustainable landscapes: A means of managing social and environmental issues i...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Terry Sunderland, from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), at the Meeting of ASEAN Senior Officials on Forestry in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on July 24-29, 2017.
Joint forest management (JFM) involves village communities and state forest departments regenerating and conserving forests through contracts specifying shared authority, responsibilities, and benefits. Two early pilot experiments took place in the 1970s in West Bengal and Haryana. JFM projects now operate in Orissa, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, and Karnataka, providing employment and environmental benefits by increasing forest cover and biodiversity protection through community involvement.
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.
Eco enterprises opportunity for greening economy in key sectorsJared Omondi Buoga
A presentation on opportunities for greening the economy in Key Sectors. Presented during the 5th National Youth Conference on Climate change at Mully Children's Home.
Operationalizing landscape approach in Indonesia: The socio-economic perspect...CIFOR-ICRAF
By Ani Adiwinata Nawir, PhD
SLF –Sustainable Landscape & Food System Team, CIFOR
JFCC Panel Discussion on Indonesia and its environmental record, 28 November 2016, Inter-Continental Hotel Midplaza, Jakarta
Assessing the roles of forests in reducing poverty and enhancing climate resilience in the Philippines.
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 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.
The experts' roundtable on ASEAN circular economy
Session 2: Agriculture, Forestry and Tehnology Adoption
By Dr. Michael Brady, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor
Presentation by Ms. Lalani Ediriweera
Technical Session 02: Climate Change Adaptation
Experience Sharing Forum on Climate Smart Initiatives of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Next – A blue Green Era – Conference and Exhibition 2017
16 – 17 October 2017, BMICH, Colombo, Sri Lanka
26 0930 3_cegorn_customary tenure recognition in vietnammrlgregion
This document discusses community-based forest management in Vietnam. It notes that over 1.26 million hectares of forestland is managed by community forest groups. The forestry law of 2017 recognized customary forest practices and prioritized forest allocation to ethnic minority communities. However, challenges remain around the legal framework, local institutional capacity and flexibility, market access, and safeguards for vulnerable groups. Case studies show how cooperatives have helped communities market forest products and increase land tenure security. Moving forward, greater recognition of community tenure rights is needed alongside legal reforms and capacity building to strengthen community forest management.
26 0930 2_giz_customary tenure recognition in laosmrlgregion
Customary land tenure is common among Laos' 49 ethnic groups, but not formally recognized. Approximately 3000 communities and 200,000 families live on customary land inside forest areas designated by the government. Recent land and forestry laws mention but do not clarify customary tenure rights. A pilot program aims to formally recognize customary tenure by surveying land, adjudicating rights, and issuing tenure documents. Key lessons show people have long occupied forest land but titles may not be possible; recognizing collective rights remains unclear. Other projects also work to strengthen tenure security through land use planning and social tenure models. The way forward includes agreement on tenure instruments, legal adaptation, implementation guidelines, and capacity building.
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.
The document discusses how actions to mitigate climate change through reducing deforestation and enhancing carbon stocks in agricultural and degraded landscapes can also help smallholder farmers adapt to climate change by increasing food security, productivity and biodiversity conservation. It describes agroforestry projects that combine climate mitigation, adaptation, and development benefits as an opportunity to achieve multiple goals at once. Community engagement and standards like the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standards are important for project quality, transparency and equitable outcomes.
Engaging community participaion on REDD+ and challengesCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Rudi Syaf, Executive Director of KKI WARSI in national workshop on the Role of Science in the Development of Forest Reference Emission Level on 13 June 2022
Wetland conservation in China and Asia: Protection, management, and restoration.
Presentation given at a wetland conservation workshop in Heilongjiang, China. Prepared in connection with the UNDP CBPF Main Streams of Life (MSL) project, Strengthening the Management Effectiveness of the Protected Area Landscape in the Altai Mountains and Wetlands.
Community forests in Nepal cover 25% of the country's forest land and are managed by over 14,000 local community forest user groups (CFUGs) representing 35% of Nepal's population. Under the 1993 Forest Act, national forests are handed over to CFUGs for protection, management, and sustainable use. Since 1978, community forestry has led to increased forest cover, social mobilization, income generation, and institutional development at the local level. However, challenges remain in ensuring disadvantaged groups' access, improving technical forest management, focusing on local needs, and supporting women and the poor through CFUG decision making. Overall, community forestry shows promise for sustainable forest management if democratic processes and people's participation are strengthened
1. Globalized trade and international processes like the SDGs are driving changes in timber value chains towards sustainability and a green economy.
2. Buyer preferences and requirements, especially from developed countries, are an important influence through demands for legality and certification.
3. Meeting these demands requires inclusion of small and medium enterprises through support for processes like legality verification and certification.
4. Multi-stakeholder initiatives involving government support, bottom-up participation, and consideration of impacts on vulnerable groups like women can help improve sustainability and livelihoods in the furniture industry.
The document summarizes the development of community forestry in Nepal and its achievements in promoting sustainable development. It discusses how community forestry has evolved over time through various policies and workshops. Key achievements highlighted include improved forest governance through community management, sustainable forest management practices, and enhanced local livelihoods and sustainability through community enterprises and income generation activities.
Management of Congo Basin forest resources: The quest for sustainabilityCIFOR-ICRAF
The document discusses the management of forest resources in the Congo Basin over time. It covers the evolution of the international agenda around sustainability from the 1960s onwards. It then examines policies and practices regarding wood products like timber, domestic wood, and wood energy. It also discusses non-wood products and environmental services. While awareness of issues like unsustainable harvesting and the importance of non-timber forest products has increased, the document notes that implementation of sustainable management practices and appropriate legal frameworks remain inadequate, particularly regarding issues like wood energy use and the bushmeat trade.
Economics of Peatlands Restoration in Central Kalimantan, IndonesiaDyah Puspitaloka
by Dyah Puspitaloka and Yeon-Su Kim
Tropical peatlands holds 15-19% of global peat carbon with Indonesia as the largest contributor. However, many of Indonesia's peatlands are degraded into fire-prone and non-forest vegetation. Indonesian government is trying to restore these degraded peatlands within five years. There are also several peatland restoration projects carried out by private companies and non-governmental organizations with public and private investments. However, time required for peatland restoration will vary from a few years to more than a decade depending on the damage level and for that, restoration efforts will need to be sustained beyond project durations. Thus, it is important to assess restoration practices being implemented by different types of project proponents, and analyze their costs and effectiveness. These aspects have been rarely studied, and will be the focus of this study. Using peatland restoration projects in central Kalimantan as case studies, we will assess three different types of peatland restoration projects for 1) different restoration goals and strategies of project proponents; 2) different time required for peatland restoration and its cost-implications; 3) total restoration costs, including indirect costs (i.e. opportunity costs) and direct costs, and their temporal and social distributions. Results of this study can help design future peatland restoration projects in Indonesia.
Oral Presentation at Society of American Foresters National Convention, Albuquerque, November 18, 2017
Carrots and sticks in REDD+ implementation: Implications for social safeguardsCIFOR-ICRAF
This document summarizes a study on the social impacts of REDD+ initiatives in six countries. The study compared 150 villages and 4,000 households exposed to REDD+ interventions to control groups. Interventions included regulations, incentives, or both. Households exposed to regulations alone reported decreased tenure security and well-being over time, while adding incentives helped alleviate negative effects. In Brazil, households clearing more forest were initially subjected to regulations alone, but cleared less forest after incentives were added. The study concludes that regulations can be effective but also negatively impact well-being, while incentives help address this issue. Trade-offs exist between carbon and social goals in REDD+ implementation.
Sustainable landscapes: A means of managing social and environmental issues i...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Terry Sunderland, from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), at the Meeting of ASEAN Senior Officials on Forestry in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on July 24-29, 2017.
Joint forest management (JFM) involves village communities and state forest departments regenerating and conserving forests through contracts specifying shared authority, responsibilities, and benefits. Two early pilot experiments took place in the 1970s in West Bengal and Haryana. JFM projects now operate in Orissa, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, and Karnataka, providing employment and environmental benefits by increasing forest cover and biodiversity protection through community involvement.
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.
Eco enterprises opportunity for greening economy in key sectorsJared Omondi Buoga
A presentation on opportunities for greening the economy in Key Sectors. Presented during the 5th National Youth Conference on Climate change at Mully Children's Home.
Operationalizing landscape approach in Indonesia: The socio-economic perspect...CIFOR-ICRAF
By Ani Adiwinata Nawir, PhD
SLF –Sustainable Landscape & Food System Team, CIFOR
JFCC Panel Discussion on Indonesia and its environmental record, 28 November 2016, Inter-Continental Hotel Midplaza, Jakarta
Assessing the roles of forests in reducing poverty and enhancing climate resilience in the Philippines.
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 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.
The experts' roundtable on ASEAN circular economy
Session 2: Agriculture, Forestry and Tehnology Adoption
By Dr. Michael Brady, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor
Presentation by Ms. Lalani Ediriweera
Technical Session 02: Climate Change Adaptation
Experience Sharing Forum on Climate Smart Initiatives of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Next – A blue Green Era – Conference and Exhibition 2017
16 – 17 October 2017, BMICH, Colombo, Sri Lanka
26 0930 3_cegorn_customary tenure recognition in vietnammrlgregion
This document discusses community-based forest management in Vietnam. It notes that over 1.26 million hectares of forestland is managed by community forest groups. The forestry law of 2017 recognized customary forest practices and prioritized forest allocation to ethnic minority communities. However, challenges remain around the legal framework, local institutional capacity and flexibility, market access, and safeguards for vulnerable groups. Case studies show how cooperatives have helped communities market forest products and increase land tenure security. Moving forward, greater recognition of community tenure rights is needed alongside legal reforms and capacity building to strengthen community forest management.
26 0930 2_giz_customary tenure recognition in laosmrlgregion
Customary land tenure is common among Laos' 49 ethnic groups, but not formally recognized. Approximately 3000 communities and 200,000 families live on customary land inside forest areas designated by the government. Recent land and forestry laws mention but do not clarify customary tenure rights. A pilot program aims to formally recognize customary tenure by surveying land, adjudicating rights, and issuing tenure documents. Key lessons show people have long occupied forest land but titles may not be possible; recognizing collective rights remains unclear. Other projects also work to strengthen tenure security through land use planning and social tenure models. The way forward includes agreement on tenure instruments, legal adaptation, implementation guidelines, and capacity building.
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.
The document discusses how actions to mitigate climate change through reducing deforestation and enhancing carbon stocks in agricultural and degraded landscapes can also help smallholder farmers adapt to climate change by increasing food security, productivity and biodiversity conservation. It describes agroforestry projects that combine climate mitigation, adaptation, and development benefits as an opportunity to achieve multiple goals at once. Community engagement and standards like the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standards are important for project quality, transparency and equitable outcomes.
Engaging community participaion on REDD+ and challengesCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Rudi Syaf, Executive Director of KKI WARSI in national workshop on the Role of Science in the Development of Forest Reference Emission Level on 13 June 2022
Wetland conservation in China and Asia: Protection, management, and restoration.
Presentation given at a wetland conservation workshop in Heilongjiang, China. Prepared in connection with the UNDP CBPF Main Streams of Life (MSL) project, Strengthening the Management Effectiveness of the Protected Area Landscape in the Altai Mountains and Wetlands.
About the Restoration Experiences Digital Forum
The climate and biodiversity crises are already affecting people and landscapes around the world. But there’s one natural remedy that can tackle them both: restoring degraded and damaged landscapes.
There are already countless restoration projects that are turning degraded landscapes into beacons of hope and resilience. At the Restoration Experiences Digital Forum, we got the chance to get to know some of these projects and meet the people behind them.
Discover how local restoration projects are reshaping landscapes globally, and get inspired to start your own!
Project Presentations Unveiled
These slides showcase the presentations delivered by each restoration experience project. Get to know these amazing restoration champions, and discover the valuable lessons embedded in their successes and challenges. Dive into the milestones that define their journey, and embrace the friendly calls to action they passionately support.
The National Environmental Policy of India was first formulated in 2006 and sought to extend coverage of and fill gaps in previous policies from 1986 to 2002 related to the environment. The key objectives of the 2006 policy included conservation of critical resources, ensuring livelihood security for poor communities, intergenerational equity, integrating environmental concerns with development, efficient resource use, and good environmental governance. The policy outlined strategies for process reforms like decentralizing clearances and substance reforms such as reviewing clearance processes, regulating coastal areas, and monitoring compliance to achieve its goals.
The role of private sector in forest conservation & finance CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Aida Greenbury, Chair of Private Sector Roundtable at the 3rd Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit, on 23–25 April 2018 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
This document summarizes lessons learned from 13 years of forest landscape restoration (FLR) practice in Fandriana Marolambo, Madagascar. Key lessons include the importance of strengthening local governance structures and empowering communities, establishing multi-level partnerships, agreeing on a joint vision and zoning plan through understanding all stakeholders' priorities, ensuring a strong social dimension that recognizes traditional land tenure and governance, implementing restoration at both the local site level and broader landscape scale, committing to a long-term and flexible process, and integrating ongoing monitoring. The results of the 13-year effort include over 6,700 hectares of active and passive restoration and over 51,000 hectares under community forest management.
The document discusses the Global Environment Facility's (GEF) approach to supporting sustainable forest management (SFM) during its sixth replenishment period (GEF-6). The GEF aims to achieve environmental, social, and economic benefits from improved forest management. It has invested $700 million during GEF-5, leveraging $4.6 billion in co-financing. For GEF-6, its goal is sustainable management of forest resources to improve livelihoods while providing environmental benefits. It has four objectives: maintaining forest resources, enhancing forest management, restoring degraded forests, and increasing regional and global cooperation on forest issues.
This document discusses Sustainable Northwest's work to promote community-driven solutions to achieve sustainable forest stewardship. It focuses on building local capacity and partnerships to support collaborative landscape-scale forest restoration and businesses utilizing local wood products. Examples are provided of projects in eastern Oregon that established a wood pellet plant and heating systems, creating new jobs while utilizing small-diameter wood and reducing wildfire risk. The role of capacity building, public-private partnerships, and developing appropriately scaled local solutions and assets is emphasized.
A Dominican Republic Case: Demonstrating Sustainable Land Management in the U...Iwl Pcu
The priority agenda: Keep learning how to best manage interlinkages at the operational level, through integrated project approaches. To derive local and global environmental benefits, promote sustainable development, and meet human needs.
Forest Landscape Restoration in Eastern Africa: Progress and gaps in engaging...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Habtemariam Kassa, from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), at the 7th Conference of the ASEAN Working Group on Social Forestry (AWG-SF) in Chiang Mai (Thailand), June 12-16, 2017.
This document discusses the sustainable and unsustainable use of biological resources. It defines biological resources and explains that sustainable use involves developing policies and plans to conserve biodiversity while allowing for well-being. Unsustainable use is when consumption exceeds natural regeneration, as is currently happening worldwide. The document then provides strategies for sustainably managing different types of biological resources, including agricultural areas, aquatic areas, forests, and genetic resources.
Findings of the sixth Global Environment OutlookKisrak Albahr
each slide in this presentation will have a learning objective presented. The purpose is to identify the main message that the presenter should be trying to convey with the slide and also to stress that we are trying to transfer knowledge, not simply raise awareness. In the transfer of knowledge there should retention of that knowledge so that eventually there may be action taken with that new knowledge. Awareness raising, on the other hand, may not lead to action being taken because the knowledge is not retained as readily.
For this slide, the presenter should be trying to convey appreciation their appreciation for the opportunity provided and also that the presentation provides a very high-level overview of the findings from the larger 700 page report, therefore some of the details may be lost.
Another key learning objective of the presentation is that, although GEO-6 presents quite a lot of negative information about the state of the environment, the overall thrust of the publication is optimistic and solutions-oriented, much like the cover of the publication, which tries to portray the sustainable world that we might all be living in by 2050.
Proposed speaking points
Thank you colleagues and I’d like to thank European Council for their generous invitation to review together the findings of the Global Environment Outlook.
I’d like to remind everyone that this is an overview of the main findings from the 700-page report and therefore we won’t really go into the finer details of the findings. Perhaps these can be covered in the question and answer session that will follow.
I’d like to first ask everyone to reflect on the cover of GEO-6. We have tried to provide a vision of what a sustainable world might look like in 2050 using this cover. Our hope is that readers might focus more on the positive and solutions-oriented messages in the report rather than the negative messages about the current state of our environment. We hope that you can each ‘imagine this world’ by looking at our cover, since this is the first step in achieving this world.
This document summarizes key findings from the sixth Global Environment Outlook report. It finds that while human development has increased, current environmental policies are insufficient to meet sustainability goals. Most environmental indicators, such as air pollution, biodiversity loss, water scarcity and land degradation, are projected to further deteriorate by 2030 and 2050 without transformative action. Transforming food and energy systems, reducing consumption and waste, and fully integrating environmental policies across all sectors are necessary to change this trajectory. Participatory approaches that engage local communities can help achieve the social and technical innovations required for systemic change towards a sustainable future.
Recognition of customary tenure: piloting for implementation of the National ...mrlgregion
This document summarizes pilots and initiatives to recognize customary tenure in Myanmar's forestry sector. It outlines how the National Land Use Policy and forest laws recognize customary tenure. Pilots by USAID, Tetra Tech, the Forest Department, and Land Core Group aimed to test applying the Community Forestry Instructions to certify fallow lands and increase tenure security. Key achievements included considering community forests and analyzing how to better recognize customary tenure. National dialogues brought stakeholders together to discuss strengthening forest tenure rights. Lessons highlighted the need for longer-term commitment to fully recognize and protect customary tenure through legal and policy reforms.
AFFORESTATION AND NATIONAL AFFORESTATION PROGRAMME AND ACT - 2016sangeetkhule
AFFORESTATION AND NATIONAL AFFORESTATION PROGRAMME AND ACT - 2016
Afforestation is a process where new forests are planted across land without trees. As a forest grows, it naturally removes CO2 from the atmosphere and stores it in its trees.
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
This document discusses community-based forest management in Niger and provides several key points:
1) Community-based forest management in Niger involves farmers regenerating trees on their own land, leading to widespread re-greening across Niger as the practice spread from farmer to farmer.
2) As trees regenerated and crop yields increased, over 5 million hectares of land saw renewed tree growth by 2006, improving food security and reducing desertification.
3) The document reviews lessons learned from community forest management programs in Mali, Guatemala, India, and the United States, noting the importance of inclusion of migrant users, long-term planning, and business skills.
Utilization of peat ecosystem for community welfare CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Haris Gunawan of the Research and Development Peat Restoration Agency at the 3rd Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit, on 23–25 April 2018 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Presentation by Mike Parr at “Putting pledges into practice in Latin America – an early assessment of Initiative 20×20 from science, policy and finance perspectives” Discussion Forum on the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. For more information go to: www.landscapes.org.
Janet Dwyer's presentation of her recent work at the laboratory of landscape architecture in the Division of forest and biomaterials science, Kyoto University. Whilst there, she researched the governance of Japan’s Satoyama cultural landscapes. This presentation details some of her work.
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Mejorando la estimación de emisiones GEI conversión bosque degradado a planta...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Kristell Hergoualc'h (Scientist, CIFOR-ICRAF) at Workshop “Lecciones para el monitoreo transparente: Experiencias de la Amazonia peruana” on 7 Mei 2024 in Lima, Peru.
Inclusión y transparencia como clave del éxito para el mecanismo de transfere...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Lauren Cooper and Rowenn Kalman (Michigan State University) at Workshop “Lecciones para el monitoreo transparente: Experiencias de la Amazonia peruana” on 7 Mei 2024 in Lima, Peru.
Avances de Perú con relación al marco de transparencia del Acuerdo de ParísCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Berioska Quispe Estrada (Directora General de Cambio Climático y Desertificación) at Workshop “Lecciones para el monitoreo transparente: Experiencias de la Amazonia peruana” on 7 Mei 2024 in Lima, Peru.
Land tenure and forest landscape restoration in Cameroon and MadagascarCIFOR-ICRAF
FLR is an adaptive process that brings people (including women, men, youth, local and indigenous communities) together to identify, negotiate and implement practices that restore and enhance ecological and social functionality of forest landscapes that have been deforested or degraded.
ReSI-NoC - Strategie de mise en oeuvre.pdfCIFOR-ICRAF
Re nforcer les S ystèmes d’ I nnovations
agrosylvopastorales économiquement
rentables, écologiquement durables et
socialement équitables dans la région du
No rd C ameroun
ReSI-NoC: Introduction au contexte du projetCIFOR-ICRAF
Renforcer les systèmes d’innovation agricole en vue de
promouvoir des systèmes de production agricole et
d’élevage économiquement rentables, écologiquement
durables et socialement équitables dans la région du
Nord au Cameroun (ReSI-NoC)
Renforcer les Systèmes d’Innovations agrosylvopastorales économiquement renta...CIFOR-ICRAF
Renforcer les Systèmes d’Innovations agrosylvopastorales économiquement rentables, écologiquement durables et socialement équitables dans la région du
Nord Cameroun
Introducing Blue Carbon Deck seeking for actionable partnershipsCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Daniel Murdiyarso (Principal Scientist, CIFOR-ICRAF) at the "Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation with Mangrove Ecosystems: Introducing Mangrove Ecosystems Strategies to the Climate Change Agenda" event in Bogor, 29 April 2024.
A Wide Range of Eco System Services with MangrovesCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Mihyun Seol and Himlal Baral (CIFOR-ICRAF) at the "Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation with Mangrove Ecosystems: Introducing Mangrove Ecosystems Strategies to the Climate Change Agenda" event in Bogor, 29 April 2024.
Presented by Citra Gilang (Research Consultant, CIFOR-ICRAF) at the "Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation with Mangrove Ecosystems: Introducing Mangrove Ecosystems Strategies to the Climate Change Agenda" event in Bogor, 29 April 2024.
Peat land Restoration Project in HLG LonderangCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Hyoung Gyun Kim (Korea–Indonesia Forest Cooperation Center) at the "Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation with Mangrove Ecosystems: Introducing Mangrove Ecosystems Strategies to the Climate Change Agenda" event in Bogor, 29 April 2024.
Sungsang Mangrove Restoration and Ecotourism (SMART): A participatory action ...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Beni Okarda (Senior Research Officer, CIFOR-ICRAF) at the "Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation with Mangrove Ecosystems: Introducing Mangrove Ecosystems Strategies to the Climate Change Agenda" event in Bogor, 29 April 2024.
Coastal and mangrove vulnerability assessment In the Northern Coast of Java, ...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Phidju Marrin Sagala (Research Consultant, CIFOR-ICRAF) at the "Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation with Mangrove Ecosystems: Introducing Mangrove Ecosystems Strategies to the Climate Change Agenda" event in Bogor, 29 April 2024.
Carbon Stock Assessment in Banten Province and Demak, Central Java, IndonesiaCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Milkah Royna (Student Intern, CIFOR-ICRAF) at the "Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation with Mangrove Ecosystems: Introducing Mangrove Ecosystems Strategies to the Climate Change Agenda" event in Bogor, 29 April 2024.
Cooperative Mangrove Project: Introduction, Scope, and PerspectivesCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Bora Lee (Warm-Temperate and Subtropical Forest Research Center, NIFoS Jeju, Republic of Korea) at the "Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation with Mangrove Ecosystems: Introducing Mangrove Ecosystems Strategies to the Climate Change Agenda" event in Bogor, 29 April 2024.
RoHS stands for Restriction of Hazardous Substances, which is also known as t...vijaykumar292010
RoHS stands for Restriction of Hazardous Substances, which is also known as the Directive 2002/95/EC. It includes the restrictions for the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment. RoHS is a WEEE (Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment).
Evolving Lifecycles with High Resolution Site Characterization (HRSC) and 3-D...Joshua Orris
The incorporation of a 3DCSM and completion of HRSC provided a tool for enhanced, data-driven, decisions to support a change in remediation closure strategies. Currently, an approved pilot study has been obtained to shut-down the remediation systems (ISCO, P&T) and conduct a hydraulic study under non-pumping conditions. A separate micro-biological bench scale treatability study was competed that yielded positive results for an emerging innovative technology. As a result, a field pilot study has commenced with results expected in nine-twelve months. With the results of the hydraulic study, field pilot studies and an updated risk assessment leading site monitoring optimization cost lifecycle savings upwards of $15MM towards an alternatively evolved best available technology remediation closure strategy.
Optimizing Post Remediation Groundwater Performance with Enhanced Microbiolog...Joshua Orris
Results of geophysics and pneumatic injection pilot tests during 2003 – 2007 yielded significant positive results for injection delivery design and contaminant mass treatment, resulting in permanent shut-down of an existing groundwater Pump & Treat system.
Accessible source areas were subsequently removed (2011) by soil excavation and treated with the placement of Emulsified Vegetable Oil EVO and zero-valent iron ZVI to accelerate treatment of impacted groundwater in overburden and weathered fractured bedrock. Post pilot test and post remediation groundwater monitoring has included analyses of CVOCs, organic fatty acids, dissolved gases and QuantArray® -Chlor to quantify key microorganisms (e.g., Dehalococcoides, Dehalobacter, etc.) and functional genes (e.g., vinyl chloride reductase, methane monooxygenase, etc.) to assess potential for reductive dechlorination and aerobic cometabolism of CVOCs.
In 2022, the first commercial application of MetaArray™ was performed at the site. MetaArray™ utilizes statistical analysis, such as principal component analysis and multivariate analysis to provide evidence that reductive dechlorination is active or even that it is slowing. This creates actionable data allowing users to save money by making important site management decisions earlier.
The results of the MetaArray™ analysis’ support vector machine (SVM) identified groundwater monitoring wells with a 80% confidence that were characterized as either Limited for Reductive Decholorination or had a High Reductive Reduction Dechlorination potential. The results of MetaArray™ will be used to further optimize the site’s post remediation monitoring program for monitored natural attenuation.
Improving the viability of probiotics by encapsulation methods for developmen...Open Access Research Paper
The popularity of functional foods among scientists and common people has been increasing day by day. Awareness and modernization make the consumer think better regarding food and nutrition. Now a day’s individual knows very well about the relation between food consumption and disease prevalence. Humans have a diversity of microbes in the gut that together form the gut microflora. Probiotics are the health-promoting live microbial cells improve host health through gut and brain connection and fighting against harmful bacteria. Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus are the two bacterial genera which are considered to be probiotic. These good bacteria are facing challenges of viability. There are so many factors such as sensitivity to heat, pH, acidity, osmotic effect, mechanical shear, chemical components, freezing and storage time as well which affects the viability of probiotics in the dairy food matrix as well as in the gut. Multiple efforts have been done in the past and ongoing in present for these beneficial microbial population stability until their destination in the gut. One of a useful technique known as microencapsulation makes the probiotic effective in the diversified conditions and maintain these microbe’s community to the optimum level for achieving targeted benefits. Dairy products are found to be an ideal vehicle for probiotic incorporation. It has been seen that the encapsulated microbial cells show higher viability than the free cells in different processing and storage conditions as well as against bile salts in the gut. They make the food functional when incorporated, without affecting the product sensory characteristics.
Kinetic studies on malachite green dye adsorption from aqueous solutions by A...Open Access Research Paper
Water polluted by dyestuffs compounds is a global threat to health and the environment; accordingly, we prepared a green novel sorbent chemical and Physical system from an algae, chitosan and chitosan nanoparticle and impregnated with algae with chitosan nanocomposite for the sorption of Malachite green dye from water. The algae with chitosan nanocomposite by a simple method and used as a recyclable and effective adsorbent for the removal of malachite green dye from aqueous solutions. Algae, chitosan, chitosan nanoparticle and algae with chitosan nanocomposite were characterized using different physicochemical methods. The functional groups and chemical compounds found in algae, chitosan, chitosan algae, chitosan nanoparticle, and chitosan nanoparticle with algae were identified using FTIR, SEM, and TGADTA/DTG techniques. The optimal adsorption conditions, different dosages, pH and Temperature the amount of algae with chitosan nanocomposite were determined. At optimized conditions and the batch equilibrium studies more than 99% of the dye was removed. The adsorption process data matched well kinetics showed that the reaction order for dye varied with pseudo-first order and pseudo-second order. Furthermore, the maximum adsorption capacity of the algae with chitosan nanocomposite toward malachite green dye reached as high as 15.5mg/g, respectively. Finally, multiple times reusing of algae with chitosan nanocomposite and removing dye from a real wastewater has made it a promising and attractive option for further practical applications.
1. Updated Research and Study on
Community Forestry
Assoc. Professor Grahame Applegate & Professor John Herbohn
Tropical Forests and People Research Centre
University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
2. Community Forestry in the Asia Pacific
Many countries in the Asia Pacific have developed substantial
forest restoration policies based on community forestry
initiatives
• Philippines: National Greening Program – 7.1 M Ha from
2017-2028
• Indonesia: reforest 5.5 M Ha from 2015-2018
• China: Increased forest cover by over 120 M Ha since 1949
• Viet Nam: Greening the Barren Hills Program and the 5 Million
Hectares Reforestation Program
• At a regional scale APEC forum in 2015 pledged to boost
forest land by 20 M ha by 2020
Criteria for success are based on short term biophysical metrics
3. Policy failures – short term targets
Community forestry plantings Ex
mega rice area in Kalimantan,
Indonesia – all burnt after 3 years
Forest clearing in Myanmar
Tree plantings in areas
burnt annually in PNG
Trees planted under four national reforestation programs in Philippines
since the 1980s - regular fire occurrence and all trees died
4. Community forestry and forest restoration
• Community forestry is the
mechanism through which forest
landscape restoration will be
implemented in many Asia-Pacific
countries
• Success of community influenced
by large array of factors
• Policies are based on short term
headline grabbing targets
• Politics
• Donors
Community forestry helps restore degraded
grasslands in Western Highlands, PNG
5. CFG
success
Social stratification
Capacity building
Socio-economic and
gender inequality
Project timeframe
+
Benefits
+
Land and forest
productivity
+
+
Cohesion
Conflict Motivation
Material assistance
Government
support
Patronage Corruption
Intra-CFG
governance
Property
rights
Extra-legal tenure
mechanisms
Tree tenure
Land tenure
+
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-- +
+
--
--
Extra-CFG
governance
++
--
+
+
+
+
+
Legislative support
Practical
assistance
+
+
--
+
+
+
Bonding social
capital
Bridging social
capital
Participation
+
--
+
+
Harvest rights
+
+
+
+
Bonding social
capital
Bonding social
capital
Bonding social
capital
Community dynamics, policy, social capital
and livelihood issues
Baynes, J., Herbohn, J., Smith, C., Fisher, R., and Bray, D.
(2015). Key Drivers Affecting the Success of Community
Forestry in Developing Countries, Global Environmental
Change
Technology
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6. Policy revisions for community forestry success
• Need to consider the social landscape as well as the
geographic landscape
• Need to consider community capacity when designing
and implementing community forestry– need to match
the type of reforestation with the community and their
stocks of livelihood assets
7. Sustainable livelihoods framework
Source: adapted from DFID (1999)
VULNERABILITIES
Shocks
(e.g. natural calamities,
market shocks)
Trends
(e.g. population trends,
technological trends)
Seasonality
(e.g. labour availability,
market demand)
POLICIES,
INSTITUTIONS AND
PROCESSES
e.g. organisations,
tenure structures,
gender issues, power
relationships,
governance
structures, regulatory
environment.
LIVELIHOOD
STRATEGIES
LIVELIHOOD
OUTCOMES
e.g. increased
income and well-
being,
reduced
vulnerabilities,
improved food and
energy security,
more sustainable
use of natural
resources
Livelihood
assets
Social
Physical Financial
Natural
Human
9. Likelihoodofcommunityforestry
success
Existing capacity of community/smallholders to
implement community forestry
(Human, Natural, Financial, Physical, Social capital)
Biliran BEFORE
capacity
building
Biliran AFTER
capacity
building
Policy revisions for community forestry success
10. Policy revisions for community forestry success
• Need to consider the social landscape as well as the
geographic landscape
• Need to consider community capacity when designing
and implementing community forestry– need to match
the type of reforestation with the community and their
stocks of livelihood assets
• Livelihoods need to be incorporated into almost all
projects
11. Likelihoodofcommunityforestry
success
Existing capacity of community/smallholders to
implement community forestry
(Human, Natural, Financial, Physical, Social capital)
Developing sustainable
livelihoods is essential –
especially in
communities with low
existing capacity.
Policy revisions for community forestry success
12. Likelihoodofcommunityforestry
success
Existing capacity of community/smallholders to
implement community forestry
(Human, Natural, Financial, Physical, Social capital)
High importance of short
returns cash-based incomes
and food security e.g.
agroforestry
Longer term livelihood
enhancement – e.g.
wood lots
Ecosystem goods and services projects
13. Policy revisions for community forestry
• Need to consider the social landscape as well as the
geographic landscape
• Need to consider community capacity when designing and
implementing community forestry – need to match the type
of reforestation with the community and their stocks of
livelihood assets
• Livelihoods need to be incorporated into almost all projects
• Indicators used to measure success of community forestry
need to move from simple targets associated with area
planted, seedlings in a nursery and short term survival of
seedlings to include indicators of long term success (e.g.
livelihood activities, long term survival of trees etc)