West Africa Forest-Farm Interface Project (WAFFI): Enhancing smallholder food security, incomes and gender equity within West Africa’s forest-farm interface
Presented by Peter Cronkleton of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) at the IFAD EU Workshop, 24–25 May 2018, in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
Potential and challenges for Multistakeholder Platforms in conflicts managementCIFOR-ICRAF
This document discusses the potential for multistakeholder platforms to manage conflicts in the Western Wildlife Corridor in Northern Ghana. The corridor contains a diversity of stakeholders with conflicting interests over the use of agricultural land, livestock grazing, hunting and other natural resources. Multistakeholder platforms could facilitate stakeholder dialogue, compromise and decision making to manage tensions between herders, farmers and other groups. However, establishing an effective multistakeholder platform in the corridor faces challenges including a lack of leadership, insufficient inclusiveness and financial constraints.
Enhancing Habitat Rehabilitation Through Community Engagement and ActionESD UNU-IAS
This document summarizes a presentation on enhancing habitat rehabilitation through community engagement and action in Narok, Kenya. The presentation describes sustainability challenges in the area like land degradation, poverty, and lack of sustainable energy. It outlines objectives to promote environmental stewardship and alternative livelihoods. Activities undertaken engaged the Maasai community in seed collection, agroforestry, and installing efficient cookstoves. These activities increased uptake of sustainability practices, behavior change, and collaboration among stakeholders. Going forward, there is a need to increase coordination, upscale projects, and document indigenous knowledge.
Investment in the sustainable commons conditions for commons based enterprisesCIFOR-ICRAF
Presentation by Steven Lawry and Ruth Meinzen-Dick at “GLF Discussion Forum on Commons Tenure for a Common Future” on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. For more information go to: www.landscapes.org.
This document provides guidance on improving governance of pastoral lands. It discusses how pastoralism is an adaptation to variable and scarce resources, relying on mobility, community access and traditional systems. Strengthening governance is important given challenges of declining resources, population growth and climate change. Key recommendations include recognizing pastoralist knowledge and customary systems, strengthening local organizations, avoiding and managing conflicts, inclusive participation, and integrated land use planning. The guidance is intended to support sustainable pastoralism, rural development, social sustainability, self-determination and environmental protection.
The document presents information from Hon. Eufracio Maratas Jr., Vice Mayor of Pilar, Cebu on the municipality of Pilar. It notes that Pilar has a total land area of 3,776 hectares and population of 11,012. Key issues facing Pilar include water shortages, soil degradation, deforestation, lack of livelihoods, and unsustainable agriculture. The Rainforestation project helped address these issues by mainstreaming conservation, providing a strategic direction for natural resource management, and catalyzing livelihood projects through farmer groups. Lessons learned include the importance of technical assistance, strong farmer groups, creativity/integrity for funding, and Rainforestation being good for local politics.
Presentation by Sara Scherr (President, EcoAgriculture Partners) at the May 15, 2013 event "Natural Resource Management and Food Security for a Growing Population". For more information visit: http://www.wri.org/event/2013/05/natural-resource-management-and-food-security-growing-population
Presentation by Bob Winterbottom (Director, Ecosystem Services Initiative, WRI) at the May 15, 2013 event "Natural Resource Management and Food Security for a Growing Population". For more information visit: http://www.wri.org/event/2013/05/natural-resource-management-and-food-security-growing-population
Potential and challenges for Multistakeholder Platforms in conflicts managementCIFOR-ICRAF
This document discusses the potential for multistakeholder platforms to manage conflicts in the Western Wildlife Corridor in Northern Ghana. The corridor contains a diversity of stakeholders with conflicting interests over the use of agricultural land, livestock grazing, hunting and other natural resources. Multistakeholder platforms could facilitate stakeholder dialogue, compromise and decision making to manage tensions between herders, farmers and other groups. However, establishing an effective multistakeholder platform in the corridor faces challenges including a lack of leadership, insufficient inclusiveness and financial constraints.
Enhancing Habitat Rehabilitation Through Community Engagement and ActionESD UNU-IAS
This document summarizes a presentation on enhancing habitat rehabilitation through community engagement and action in Narok, Kenya. The presentation describes sustainability challenges in the area like land degradation, poverty, and lack of sustainable energy. It outlines objectives to promote environmental stewardship and alternative livelihoods. Activities undertaken engaged the Maasai community in seed collection, agroforestry, and installing efficient cookstoves. These activities increased uptake of sustainability practices, behavior change, and collaboration among stakeholders. Going forward, there is a need to increase coordination, upscale projects, and document indigenous knowledge.
Investment in the sustainable commons conditions for commons based enterprisesCIFOR-ICRAF
Presentation by Steven Lawry and Ruth Meinzen-Dick at “GLF Discussion Forum on Commons Tenure for a Common Future” on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. For more information go to: www.landscapes.org.
This document provides guidance on improving governance of pastoral lands. It discusses how pastoralism is an adaptation to variable and scarce resources, relying on mobility, community access and traditional systems. Strengthening governance is important given challenges of declining resources, population growth and climate change. Key recommendations include recognizing pastoralist knowledge and customary systems, strengthening local organizations, avoiding and managing conflicts, inclusive participation, and integrated land use planning. The guidance is intended to support sustainable pastoralism, rural development, social sustainability, self-determination and environmental protection.
The document presents information from Hon. Eufracio Maratas Jr., Vice Mayor of Pilar, Cebu on the municipality of Pilar. It notes that Pilar has a total land area of 3,776 hectares and population of 11,012. Key issues facing Pilar include water shortages, soil degradation, deforestation, lack of livelihoods, and unsustainable agriculture. The Rainforestation project helped address these issues by mainstreaming conservation, providing a strategic direction for natural resource management, and catalyzing livelihood projects through farmer groups. Lessons learned include the importance of technical assistance, strong farmer groups, creativity/integrity for funding, and Rainforestation being good for local politics.
Presentation by Sara Scherr (President, EcoAgriculture Partners) at the May 15, 2013 event "Natural Resource Management and Food Security for a Growing Population". For more information visit: http://www.wri.org/event/2013/05/natural-resource-management-and-food-security-growing-population
Presentation by Bob Winterbottom (Director, Ecosystem Services Initiative, WRI) at the May 15, 2013 event "Natural Resource Management and Food Security for a Growing Population". For more information visit: http://www.wri.org/event/2013/05/natural-resource-management-and-food-security-growing-population
GCARD2: Briefing paper land, water forests & landscape GCARD Conferences
The adaptation and adoption of conservation agriculture (CA)-based crop management through innovative techniques like reduced soil movement, adequate surface retention of crop residues and economically viable and diversified crop rotations are the way forward to address the emerging challenges mentioned above. This could help in ensuring sustainable food security and offer several environmental benefits in sustainable way. This is relatively a new strategy to deal with food security and environmental degradation in unfavourable agriculture system.
Visit the conference site for more information: http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
This slideshow was presented by Dr. Christine Negra at the 2014 ESP Conference in Costa Rica. It covers integrated landscape management projects around the world, providing an overview of the global initiative and setting research priorities for the future. For more information on the session, please see the Conference Program: http://www.espconference.org/ESP_Conference/82483/5/0/60
Agroforestry systems for restoration in Brazil: reconciling social and ecolo...World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
This document discusses agroforestry systems for environmental restoration in Brazil that balance social and ecological functions. It outlines that agroforestry can: (1) maintain ecosystem structure/functions like biodiversity and soil quality while providing social/economic functions for family farms; (2) perform restoration in an economically feasible way by including people and accelerating natural succession; and (3) improve livelihoods through appropriate management. However, balancing trade-offs between social/environmental benefits and costs is challenging. The document then provides examples of agroforestry systems for restoration in Brazil and their costs, benefits for climate change adaptation/mitigation, food security, and carbon storage potential.
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
This document discusses resource concerns, conservation practices, and education efforts of the Marion Soil and Water Conservation District. It notes resource concerns like erosion, compaction, excess nutrients, and invasive species. It then lists conservation practices for urban and small farms like cover crops, nutrient management, and reduced tillage. Finally, it provides details on the direct technical assistance to over 100 growers in Marion County and the educational events held each year, reaching over 600 people annually on topics like soil health, conservation practices, and plant productivity.
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/
The IFAD Pacific Islands Partnership Strategy has two strategic objectives: (i) promoting production, consumption, and import substitution of locally grown and indigenous foods in environmentally sustainable ways, and (ii) increasing farm and non-farm income and employment opportunities. It focuses on isolated areas facing hardship, prioritizing women, youth, and disadvantaged communities. IFAD's programs in the Pacific engage in areas like community development, social and economic empowerment, food and nutrition security, high-value niche markets, and climate change adaptation. Lessons learned indicate that communities can find solutions when provided with adequate support, building on traditional knowledge through local institutions is effective, and partnerships are instrumental to designing appropriate interventions.
Innovation Plan: Economic empowerment of Women in Kirinyaga County, KenyaPROCASUR Corporation
This document outlines a project to economically empower women in Kirinyaga County, Kenya by reducing fruit waste and increasing value addition of fruits. The project aims to increase incomes of rural women, reduce fruit waste during peak seasons, and promote value addition of available fruits like tomatoes, mangoes, bananas and avocados. Key activities include confirming markets, mobilizing community groups, training women on fruit processing and preservation techniques, acquiring processing equipment, and training on equipment usage. The expected results are reduced fruit waste, increased incomes for rural women, enhanced bargaining power over prices, and increased fruit consumption.
The document summarizes the Global Peatlands Initiative, an effort led by experts to conserve peatlands and prevent carbon emissions. Peatlands store more carbon than all the world's forests but are threatened by drainage, subsidence, and fires. The Initiative aims to enhance resilience of agriculture on peatlands, demonstrate peatlands' values, and engage farmers in management. It will develop guidance, evaluate practices, estimate emissions, and facilitate knowledge sharing. The Initiative also plans to pilot alternative "paludiculture" crops that can thrive in undrained peatlands.
Assn. of Int'l Research & Development Centers for Agriculture (AIRCA)Crops for the Future
AIRCA (Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture) is a nine-member alliance focused on increasing global food security by supporting smallholder agriculture within healthy, sustainable and climate-smart landscapes.
The combined expertise of AIRCA centers cover a large spectrum of the research for development continuum including agrobiodiversity, agroforestry, integrated pest management, drought-tolerance crops, natural resource management and the conservation and use of underutilized species.
For more information, please visit the official website of AIRCA at http://www.airca.org/
The nine-member alliance comprises of:
AVRDC – Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center
CABI – Centre for Agriculture and Bio-Sciences International
CATIE – Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center
CFF – Crops for the Future
ICBA – International Center for Biosaline Agriculture
ICIMOD – International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
ICIPE – International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology
IFDC – International Fertilizer Development Center
INBAR – International Network for Bamboo and Rattan
This document discusses land restoration efforts in Niger. It describes the land degradation issues facing the West Africa Sahel region due to fragile ecosystems and unsustainable agricultural practices. Various integrated land management techniques are being implemented and tested, including Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR), cereal/legume intercropping, microdosing of fertilizers, and restoring degraded lands. These techniques are improving soil fertility and crop yields when combined. The document outlines several partnerships working to scale these efforts across Niger, including restoring over 175 hectares of degraded land managed by 11,970 women generating more income. There is growing demand from farmers and partners to expand training and testing of integrated packages to improve livelihoods and food security.
Developing Climate-Smart village models through integrated participatory acti...ICRISAT
Climate-smart villages are evolving in five West African countries from Senegal to Niger thanks to integrated participatory action research aimed at protecting food security. Climate change creates new challenges for food security in the region. To overcome these threats, the CGIAR research program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) developed among other tools and approaches, the Climate Smart Village (CSV) as a model for local action research to achieve food security, enhance livelihood, and improve environmental management, i.e., Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA).
Not all roads lead to Rome: Inclusive business models and responsible finance...World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
The document discusses approaches to achieving sustainable cocoa production in Ghana by 2020. It identifies several challenges in the cocoa sector including low productivity, rural poverty, and deforestation. It analyzes different stakeholder approaches and finds they mainly focus on increased productivity, while social and environmental issues are addressed less. Inclusive business models include many smallholder farmers but benefits are not always equitable. Responsible finance from impact investors and social lenders has potential to leverage more equitable models and landscape restoration, but investments have not been well adapted for cocoa sectors. A "multi-chain approach" is proposed to better leverage finance through a portfolio of value chains at the landscape level.
Implementing Land Husbandry Best Management Practices in Hillside Areas ACDI/VOCA
The document discusses land husbandry best practices for hillside areas in Jamaica. It notes that agriculture is an important sector but has faced losses from climate events. RADA aims to support sustainable agricultural production through several initiatives:
RADA's Land Husbandry Unit provides training and tools to promote sound land husbandry. They use farmer field schools and demonstrations of techniques like agroforestry. Unsustainable practices that degrade land are identified, along with recommended crops and stabilization methods for different slopes. RADA collaborates with other groups and uses various communication methods to disseminate this information. The overall goal is to minimize environmental damage and losses to agriculture through adoption of sustainable land management.
HLPE 2019. Agroecological and other innovative approaches for sustainable agriculture and food systems that enhance food security and nutrition. A report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the Committee on World Food Security, Rome
Uganda is experiencing effects of climate change including floods, droughts, and extreme temperatures which are damaging crops, livestock, and reducing incomes. To address this, Uganda's strategy is promoting Climate Smart Agriculture through mainstreaming climate change into policies, increasing climate resilient crops, improving watershed management, and capacity building. Key projects are installing weather stations, promoting natural resource management, supporting climate smart technologies and practices, and building resilient infrastructure. However, challenges remain such as limited resilient crop and animal options, lack of funding and information, and low skills/capacity. Coordination is led by the Ministry of Agriculture Climate Smart Agriculture taskforce working with districts and communities.
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.
ICRISAT is an international organization founded in 1972 to conduct agricultural research for rural development in semi-arid tropical regions. It is headquartered in Hyderabad, India and has regional centers in Africa and Asia. ICRISAT's mandates are to overcome poverty, hunger, and malnutrition while preventing environmental degradation through research on mandate crops like chickpeas, pigeon peas, groundnuts, pearl millet, sorghum and finger millet.
Landcare: a model for promoting sustainable agriculture around the world. Rob...Joanna Hicks
The document discusses Landcare, a community-based model for promoting sustainable agriculture. It features contributions from individuals working in Landcare in various countries around the world. They discuss Landcare projects focusing on topics like community environmental projects, corporate involvement, the African Landcare Network, conservation agriculture, Landcare impacts in different countries, and more. The document serves to share knowledge and experiences around the Landcare approach globally.
The document summarizes an agrobiodiversity program in Kenya between FAO and the Government of Kenya. The program has 3 main themes: agrobiodiversity, forestry, and food security. It aims to be people-centered, inter-sectoral, strengthen existing activities, and have policy impact. Key activities include local community actions through farmer field schools, policy dialogue, and strengthening information systems like databases on plant genetic resources and invasive species. The program addresses needs like drought resilience, markets, and seed systems through local assessments, research, and improving access to information.
GCARD2: Briefing paper land, water forests & landscape GCARD Conferences
The adaptation and adoption of conservation agriculture (CA)-based crop management through innovative techniques like reduced soil movement, adequate surface retention of crop residues and economically viable and diversified crop rotations are the way forward to address the emerging challenges mentioned above. This could help in ensuring sustainable food security and offer several environmental benefits in sustainable way. This is relatively a new strategy to deal with food security and environmental degradation in unfavourable agriculture system.
Visit the conference site for more information: http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
This slideshow was presented by Dr. Christine Negra at the 2014 ESP Conference in Costa Rica. It covers integrated landscape management projects around the world, providing an overview of the global initiative and setting research priorities for the future. For more information on the session, please see the Conference Program: http://www.espconference.org/ESP_Conference/82483/5/0/60
Agroforestry systems for restoration in Brazil: reconciling social and ecolo...World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
This document discusses agroforestry systems for environmental restoration in Brazil that balance social and ecological functions. It outlines that agroforestry can: (1) maintain ecosystem structure/functions like biodiversity and soil quality while providing social/economic functions for family farms; (2) perform restoration in an economically feasible way by including people and accelerating natural succession; and (3) improve livelihoods through appropriate management. However, balancing trade-offs between social/environmental benefits and costs is challenging. The document then provides examples of agroforestry systems for restoration in Brazil and their costs, benefits for climate change adaptation/mitigation, food security, and carbon storage potential.
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
This document discusses resource concerns, conservation practices, and education efforts of the Marion Soil and Water Conservation District. It notes resource concerns like erosion, compaction, excess nutrients, and invasive species. It then lists conservation practices for urban and small farms like cover crops, nutrient management, and reduced tillage. Finally, it provides details on the direct technical assistance to over 100 growers in Marion County and the educational events held each year, reaching over 600 people annually on topics like soil health, conservation practices, and plant productivity.
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/
The IFAD Pacific Islands Partnership Strategy has two strategic objectives: (i) promoting production, consumption, and import substitution of locally grown and indigenous foods in environmentally sustainable ways, and (ii) increasing farm and non-farm income and employment opportunities. It focuses on isolated areas facing hardship, prioritizing women, youth, and disadvantaged communities. IFAD's programs in the Pacific engage in areas like community development, social and economic empowerment, food and nutrition security, high-value niche markets, and climate change adaptation. Lessons learned indicate that communities can find solutions when provided with adequate support, building on traditional knowledge through local institutions is effective, and partnerships are instrumental to designing appropriate interventions.
Innovation Plan: Economic empowerment of Women in Kirinyaga County, KenyaPROCASUR Corporation
This document outlines a project to economically empower women in Kirinyaga County, Kenya by reducing fruit waste and increasing value addition of fruits. The project aims to increase incomes of rural women, reduce fruit waste during peak seasons, and promote value addition of available fruits like tomatoes, mangoes, bananas and avocados. Key activities include confirming markets, mobilizing community groups, training women on fruit processing and preservation techniques, acquiring processing equipment, and training on equipment usage. The expected results are reduced fruit waste, increased incomes for rural women, enhanced bargaining power over prices, and increased fruit consumption.
The document summarizes the Global Peatlands Initiative, an effort led by experts to conserve peatlands and prevent carbon emissions. Peatlands store more carbon than all the world's forests but are threatened by drainage, subsidence, and fires. The Initiative aims to enhance resilience of agriculture on peatlands, demonstrate peatlands' values, and engage farmers in management. It will develop guidance, evaluate practices, estimate emissions, and facilitate knowledge sharing. The Initiative also plans to pilot alternative "paludiculture" crops that can thrive in undrained peatlands.
Assn. of Int'l Research & Development Centers for Agriculture (AIRCA)Crops for the Future
AIRCA (Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture) is a nine-member alliance focused on increasing global food security by supporting smallholder agriculture within healthy, sustainable and climate-smart landscapes.
The combined expertise of AIRCA centers cover a large spectrum of the research for development continuum including agrobiodiversity, agroforestry, integrated pest management, drought-tolerance crops, natural resource management and the conservation and use of underutilized species.
For more information, please visit the official website of AIRCA at http://www.airca.org/
The nine-member alliance comprises of:
AVRDC – Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center
CABI – Centre for Agriculture and Bio-Sciences International
CATIE – Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center
CFF – Crops for the Future
ICBA – International Center for Biosaline Agriculture
ICIMOD – International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
ICIPE – International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology
IFDC – International Fertilizer Development Center
INBAR – International Network for Bamboo and Rattan
This document discusses land restoration efforts in Niger. It describes the land degradation issues facing the West Africa Sahel region due to fragile ecosystems and unsustainable agricultural practices. Various integrated land management techniques are being implemented and tested, including Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR), cereal/legume intercropping, microdosing of fertilizers, and restoring degraded lands. These techniques are improving soil fertility and crop yields when combined. The document outlines several partnerships working to scale these efforts across Niger, including restoring over 175 hectares of degraded land managed by 11,970 women generating more income. There is growing demand from farmers and partners to expand training and testing of integrated packages to improve livelihoods and food security.
Developing Climate-Smart village models through integrated participatory acti...ICRISAT
Climate-smart villages are evolving in five West African countries from Senegal to Niger thanks to integrated participatory action research aimed at protecting food security. Climate change creates new challenges for food security in the region. To overcome these threats, the CGIAR research program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) developed among other tools and approaches, the Climate Smart Village (CSV) as a model for local action research to achieve food security, enhance livelihood, and improve environmental management, i.e., Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA).
Not all roads lead to Rome: Inclusive business models and responsible finance...World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
The document discusses approaches to achieving sustainable cocoa production in Ghana by 2020. It identifies several challenges in the cocoa sector including low productivity, rural poverty, and deforestation. It analyzes different stakeholder approaches and finds they mainly focus on increased productivity, while social and environmental issues are addressed less. Inclusive business models include many smallholder farmers but benefits are not always equitable. Responsible finance from impact investors and social lenders has potential to leverage more equitable models and landscape restoration, but investments have not been well adapted for cocoa sectors. A "multi-chain approach" is proposed to better leverage finance through a portfolio of value chains at the landscape level.
Implementing Land Husbandry Best Management Practices in Hillside Areas ACDI/VOCA
The document discusses land husbandry best practices for hillside areas in Jamaica. It notes that agriculture is an important sector but has faced losses from climate events. RADA aims to support sustainable agricultural production through several initiatives:
RADA's Land Husbandry Unit provides training and tools to promote sound land husbandry. They use farmer field schools and demonstrations of techniques like agroforestry. Unsustainable practices that degrade land are identified, along with recommended crops and stabilization methods for different slopes. RADA collaborates with other groups and uses various communication methods to disseminate this information. The overall goal is to minimize environmental damage and losses to agriculture through adoption of sustainable land management.
HLPE 2019. Agroecological and other innovative approaches for sustainable agriculture and food systems that enhance food security and nutrition. A report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the Committee on World Food Security, Rome
Uganda is experiencing effects of climate change including floods, droughts, and extreme temperatures which are damaging crops, livestock, and reducing incomes. To address this, Uganda's strategy is promoting Climate Smart Agriculture through mainstreaming climate change into policies, increasing climate resilient crops, improving watershed management, and capacity building. Key projects are installing weather stations, promoting natural resource management, supporting climate smart technologies and practices, and building resilient infrastructure. However, challenges remain such as limited resilient crop and animal options, lack of funding and information, and low skills/capacity. Coordination is led by the Ministry of Agriculture Climate Smart Agriculture taskforce working with districts and communities.
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.
ICRISAT is an international organization founded in 1972 to conduct agricultural research for rural development in semi-arid tropical regions. It is headquartered in Hyderabad, India and has regional centers in Africa and Asia. ICRISAT's mandates are to overcome poverty, hunger, and malnutrition while preventing environmental degradation through research on mandate crops like chickpeas, pigeon peas, groundnuts, pearl millet, sorghum and finger millet.
Similar to West Africa Forest-Farm Interface Project (WAFFI): Enhancing smallholder food security, incomes and gender equity within West Africa’s forest-farm interface
Landcare: a model for promoting sustainable agriculture around the world. Rob...Joanna Hicks
The document discusses Landcare, a community-based model for promoting sustainable agriculture. It features contributions from individuals working in Landcare in various countries around the world. They discuss Landcare projects focusing on topics like community environmental projects, corporate involvement, the African Landcare Network, conservation agriculture, Landcare impacts in different countries, and more. The document serves to share knowledge and experiences around the Landcare approach globally.
The document summarizes an agrobiodiversity program in Kenya between FAO and the Government of Kenya. The program has 3 main themes: agrobiodiversity, forestry, and food security. It aims to be people-centered, inter-sectoral, strengthen existing activities, and have policy impact. Key activities include local community actions through farmer field schools, policy dialogue, and strengthening information systems like databases on plant genetic resources and invasive species. The program addresses needs like drought resilience, markets, and seed systems through local assessments, research, and improving access to information.
Day 1_Session 3_TRIPS_WASDS_Antoine Kalinganire - This presentation outlines the main outcomes of the CRP Dryland Systems inception phase in the West African Sahel and Dry Savannas target region.
Leasehold forestry in Nepal over two decades of implementationPROCASUR Corporation
Learning Route on women’s empowerment, business development and sustainable natural resource management.
Scaling-up programmes for the rural poor in Nepal. 6 to 13 December, 2014. IFAD & PROCASUR.
More contents at: http://asia.procasur.org/portfolio_item/nepal-learning-route/
Agricultural intensification, value chain development and human capacity stre...ILRI
This document discusses strategies for integrating agricultural intensification, value chain development, and human capacity strengthening. It outlines concepts like intensification and value chains. Global challenges are described like population growth and climate change. Integrated value chain, crop, and capacity development (IVCCD) is proposed to address issues in Africa like increasing food demand and land degradation. The document discusses partnership approaches, understanding local systems through assessments, research and development intervention options at different timescales and locations, documentation and scaling best practices, and communication strategies. Examples from projects in Ethiopia and East Africa illustrate integrated solutions and lessons learned around targeting farmers, evaluation, linking production to markets, and sustainability.
Watershed/Landscape Management for Multiple Benefits and Climate Resilience ...CIFOR-ICRAF
Learn how watershed and landscape management can be made climate resilient and be designed for multiple benefits. This presentation by Sally Bunning, Senior Land/Soils officer of the FAO Land and Water Division focuses on the principles of integrated watershed management, experiences, strategy and lessons learned based on the experiences from East Africa.
Biodiversity Mainstreaming Experiences of Mexico ExternalEvents
The document summarizes a multi-stakeholder dialogue on mainstreaming biodiversity across agricultural sectors held by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). It discusses Mexico's efforts to promote biodiversity-friendly agricultural practices through collaboration between environmental and agricultural ministries, incentives for sustainable production, and spatial planning tools. Examples highlight partnerships supporting crocodile farming and conserving maize diversity. The workshop aims to review progress on mainstreaming biodiversity and identify opportunities to strengthen implementation of biodiversity action plans across key sectors.
Global Plan of Action for conservation, sustainable use and development of fo...Bioversity International
The Global Plan of Action for the conservation, sustainable use and development of forest genetic resources provides a framework for countries, regional bodies and international organizations to highlight and respond to the serious challenges as well as the opportunities facing forest genetic resources.
This plan is based on the first ever State of the World Forest Genetic Resources Report, which over 80 countries have contributed to. Learn more: http://www.bioversityinternational.org/research-portfolio/forest-tree-genetic-diversity/capacity-and-awareness/
The climate-smart village : a model developed by CCAFS program to improve the adaptive capacity of communities
Presented by Dr Jules Bayala, World Agroforestry Centre at Africa Agriculture Science Week 6, 15 July 2013, Accra, Ghana. http://ccafs.cgiar.org/events/15/jul/2013/africa-agriculture-science-week-2013
This document summarizes an event discussing operationalizing landscape approaches to agriculture. The event included a video on ecoagriculture landscapes, a panel discussion on experiences in Latin America, Africa, Europe, and a discussion. Key points included that ecoagriculture landscapes manage agriculture to enhance livelihoods and production while conserving ecosystems. Diverse landscape strategies were highlighted from several countries. The document outlines approaches to align diverse objectives through stakeholder planning and action, potential benefits to farmers, and examples of positive impacts on smallholders and ecosystems from integrated landscape initiatives. A multi-stakeholder process for collaborative landscape management is proposed.
Maren Radeny is the Regional Program Coordinator for CCAFS in East Africa. CCAFS works in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to develop climate-smart agricultural practices and policies. It has six sites across the four countries. Research includes testing crop varieties resilient to drought and diseases, soil/water management, and use of climate information. Policy work includes integrating agriculture into climate negotiations and developing climate-smart agriculture plans in Kenya and Uganda. The overall aim is to address challenges smallholders face from climate variability and change and increase food security.
Rapid land transformation driven by large scale investments is one of the big trends defining this century. In a virtual briefing for the Global Donor Platform members CIAT agriculture expert Deborah Bossio dismisses the cry for more investments often heard in development circles. From her perspective a lack of investments is not the problem. The more pressing question is whether these large scale investments could be sustainable and socially inclusive. How are they going to play out in the end?
Another emerging feature, according to Bossio, is the dominance of globalization as well as foreign income and international trade as major drivers of land use change. Taking a closer look at these dynamics shows that we aim at achieving multiple goals (sustaining communities, produce goods, store carbon, protect wildlife, sustain biodiversity, ecosystem services). The landscapes approach provides a vehicle for realizing those objectives.
After outlining the reasons behind choosing landscapes approaches, Deborah rounds off with introducing specifics of CIAT’s landscapes approach.
Deborah Bossio is the director of soils research area at CIAT. She is based in Nairobi, Kenya, and has more than 15 years experience working in sustainable agriculture development research.
See the virtual briefing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-sUzAC-B7w
1) The document summarizes ICRAF's scientific and technical support for agroforestry interventions around Lake Tanganyika to reduce sedimentation and improve livelihoods.
2) ICRAF worked with local stakeholders using participatory approaches to identify causes of land degradation and build capacity around improved landscape management.
3) Over 27 community nurseries were established between 2011-2013, planting over 2 million trees of 18 exotic and 16 native species selected based on integrating local knowledge with scientific agroecological analysis.
This document summarizes the global achievements and ongoing work of the Forests, Trees and Agroforestry program from 2011-2014. It discusses key outputs including over 10 million people benefiting from improved livelihoods and around 15 million hectares of forests and agroforests better managed. It also highlights several ongoing spatial monitoring and data sharing initiatives. Finally, it provides examples of projects in Latin America focusing on issues like climate change mitigation, forest management, and support for smallholder farmers.
Applying the research in development approach to scale ecosystem restorationILRI
Presented by Leigh Ann Winowiecki and Fergus Sinclair at the second in webinar series on Land and Natural Resource Governance, Planning and Management 13 October 2020
Land degradation threatens the livelihoods, food and nutrition security of the poorest, most vulnerable smallholder farmers and pastoralists in Africa.
The challenge is to scale locally appropriate options with large numbers of farmers to ensure sustainable land restoration.
This document provides an introduction and overview of a project focused on conserving tropical fruit tree diversity through sustainable livelihood approaches. The project aims to conserve tropical fruit tree genetic resources on farms and in situ through building capacity of local communities and institutions. The goal is to improve livelihoods and food security by strengthening the ability of farmers, groups, and communities to sustainably manage and benefit from tropical fruit tree species. Key outcomes include conserving diversity on farms through improved knowledge and practices, stakeholders benefiting from management methodologies, and empowering communities and institutions through enhanced capacity and partnerships. The impact will be global conservation of tropical fruit tree diversity and knowledge as well as domestic benefits like increased production, income, food supply and land area devoted
Similar to West Africa Forest-Farm Interface Project (WAFFI): Enhancing smallholder food security, incomes and gender equity within West Africa’s forest-farm interface (20)
Deforestation-free commodities can contribute to low-emission food systemsCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Elizabeth Adobi Okwuosa (KALRO, Kenya) at "Side event 60th sessions of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies - Sustainable Bites: Innovating Low Emission Food Systems One Country at a Time" on 13 June 2024
Emerging Earth Observation methods for monitoring sustainable food productionCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Daniela Requena Suarez, Helmholtz GeoResearch Center Potsdam (GFZ) at "Side event 60th sessions of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies - Sustainable Bites: Innovating Low Emission Food Systems One Country at a Time" on 13 June 2024
Exploring low emissions development opportunities in food systemsCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Christopher Martius (CIFOR-ICRAF) at "Side event 60th sessions of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies - Sustainable Bites: Innovating Low Emission Food Systems One Country at a Time" on 13 June 2024
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.
SDSS1335+0728: The awakening of a ∼ 106M⊙ black hole⋆Sérgio Sacani
Context. The early-type galaxy SDSS J133519.91+072807.4 (hereafter SDSS1335+0728), which had exhibited no prior optical variations during the preceding two decades, began showing significant nuclear variability in the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) alert stream from December 2019 (as ZTF19acnskyy). This variability behaviour, coupled with the host-galaxy properties, suggests that SDSS1335+0728 hosts a ∼ 106M⊙ black hole (BH) that is currently in the process of ‘turning on’. Aims. We present a multi-wavelength photometric analysis and spectroscopic follow-up performed with the aim of better understanding the origin of the nuclear variations detected in SDSS1335+0728. Methods. We used archival photometry (from WISE, 2MASS, SDSS, GALEX, eROSITA) and spectroscopic data (from SDSS and LAMOST) to study the state of SDSS1335+0728 prior to December 2019, and new observations from Swift, SOAR/Goodman, VLT/X-shooter, and Keck/LRIS taken after its turn-on to characterise its current state. We analysed the variability of SDSS1335+0728 in the X-ray/UV/optical/mid-infrared range, modelled its spectral energy distribution prior to and after December 2019, and studied the evolution of its UV/optical spectra. Results. From our multi-wavelength photometric analysis, we find that: (a) since 2021, the UV flux (from Swift/UVOT observations) is four times brighter than the flux reported by GALEX in 2004; (b) since June 2022, the mid-infrared flux has risen more than two times, and the W1−W2 WISE colour has become redder; and (c) since February 2024, the source has begun showing X-ray emission. From our spectroscopic follow-up, we see that (i) the narrow emission line ratios are now consistent with a more energetic ionising continuum; (ii) broad emission lines are not detected; and (iii) the [OIII] line increased its flux ∼ 3.6 years after the first ZTF alert, which implies a relatively compact narrow-line-emitting region. Conclusions. We conclude that the variations observed in SDSS1335+0728 could be either explained by a ∼ 106M⊙ AGN that is just turning on or by an exotic tidal disruption event (TDE). If the former is true, SDSS1335+0728 is one of the strongest cases of an AGNobserved in the process of activating. If the latter were found to be the case, it would correspond to the longest and faintest TDE ever observed (or another class of still unknown nuclear transient). Future observations of SDSS1335+0728 are crucial to further understand its behaviour. Key words. galaxies: active– accretion, accretion discs– galaxies: individual: SDSS J133519.91+072807.4
Discovery of An Apparent Red, High-Velocity Type Ia Supernova at 𝐳 = 2.9 wi...Sérgio Sacani
We present the JWST discovery of SN 2023adsy, a transient object located in a host galaxy JADES-GS
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. The transient was identified in deep James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)/NIRCam imaging from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) program. Photometric and spectroscopic followup with NIRCam and NIRSpec, respectively, confirm the redshift and yield UV-NIR light-curve, NIR color, and spectroscopic information all consistent with a Type Ia classification. Despite its classification as a likely SN Ia, SN 2023adsy is both fairly red (
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BIRDS DIVERSITY OF SOOTEA BISWANATH ASSAM.ppt.pptxgoluk9330
Ahota Beel, nestled in Sootea Biswanath Assam , is celebrated for its extraordinary diversity of bird species. This wetland sanctuary supports a myriad of avian residents and migrants alike. Visitors can admire the elegant flights of migratory species such as the Northern Pintail and Eurasian Wigeon, alongside resident birds including the Asian Openbill and Pheasant-tailed Jacana. With its tranquil scenery and varied habitats, Ahota Beel offers a perfect haven for birdwatchers to appreciate and study the vibrant birdlife that thrives in this natural refuge.
Mechanisms and Applications of Antiviral Neutralizing Antibodies - Creative B...Creative-Biolabs
Neutralizing antibodies, pivotal in immune defense, specifically bind and inhibit viral pathogens, thereby playing a crucial role in protecting against and mitigating infectious diseases. In this slide, we will introduce what antibodies and neutralizing antibodies are, the production and regulation of neutralizing antibodies, their mechanisms of action, classification and applications, as well as the challenges they face.
Mending Clothing to Support Sustainable Fashion_CIMaR 2024.pdfSelcen Ozturkcan
Ozturkcan, S., Berndt, A., & Angelakis, A. (2024). Mending clothing to support sustainable fashion. Presented at the 31st Annual Conference by the Consortium for International Marketing Research (CIMaR), 10-13 Jun 2024, University of Gävle, Sweden.
This presentation offers a general idea of the structure of seed, seed production, management of seeds and its allied technologies. It also offers the concept of gene erosion and the practices used to control it. Nursery and gardening have been widely explored along with their importance in the related domain.
Microbial interaction
Microorganisms interacts with each other and can be physically associated with another organisms in a variety of ways.
One organism can be located on the surface of another organism as an ectobiont or located within another organism as endobiont.
Microbial interaction may be positive such as mutualism, proto-cooperation, commensalism or may be negative such as parasitism, predation or competition
Types of microbial interaction
Positive interaction: mutualism, proto-cooperation, commensalism
Negative interaction: Ammensalism (antagonism), parasitism, predation, competition
I. Mutualism:
It is defined as the relationship in which each organism in interaction gets benefits from association. It is an obligatory relationship in which mutualist and host are metabolically dependent on each other.
Mutualistic relationship is very specific where one member of association cannot be replaced by another species.
Mutualism require close physical contact between interacting organisms.
Relationship of mutualism allows organisms to exist in habitat that could not occupied by either species alone.
Mutualistic relationship between organisms allows them to act as a single organism.
Examples of mutualism:
i. Lichens:
Lichens are excellent example of mutualism.
They are the association of specific fungi and certain genus of algae. In lichen, fungal partner is called mycobiont and algal partner is called
II. Syntrophism:
It is an association in which the growth of one organism either depends on or improved by the substrate provided by another organism.
In syntrophism both organism in association gets benefits.
Compound A
Utilized by population 1
Compound B
Utilized by population 2
Compound C
utilized by both Population 1+2
Products
In this theoretical example of syntrophism, population 1 is able to utilize and metabolize compound A, forming compound B but cannot metabolize beyond compound B without co-operation of population 2. Population 2is unable to utilize compound A but it can metabolize compound B forming compound C. Then both population 1 and 2 are able to carry out metabolic reaction which leads to formation of end product that neither population could produce alone.
Examples of syntrophism:
i. Methanogenic ecosystem in sludge digester
Methane produced by methanogenic bacteria depends upon interspecies hydrogen transfer by other fermentative bacteria.
Anaerobic fermentative bacteria generate CO2 and H2 utilizing carbohydrates which is then utilized by methanogenic bacteria (Methanobacter) to produce methane.
ii. Lactobacillus arobinosus and Enterococcus faecalis:
In the minimal media, Lactobacillus arobinosus and Enterococcus faecalis are able to grow together but not alone.
The synergistic relationship between E. faecalis and L. arobinosus occurs in which E. faecalis require folic acid
Sexuality - Issues, Attitude and Behaviour - Applied Social Psychology - Psyc...PsychoTech Services
A proprietary approach developed by bringing together the best of learning theories from Psychology, design principles from the world of visualization, and pedagogical methods from over a decade of training experience, that enables you to: Learn better, faster!
The cost of acquiring information by natural selectionCarl Bergstrom
This is a short talk that I gave at the Banff International Research Station workshop on Modeling and Theory in Population Biology. The idea is to try to understand how the burden of natural selection relates to the amount of information that selection puts into the genome.
It's based on the first part of this research paper:
The cost of information acquisition by natural selection
Ryan Seamus McGee, Olivia Kosterlitz, Artem Kaznatcheev, Benjamin Kerr, Carl T. Bergstrom
bioRxiv 2022.07.02.498577; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.02.498577
Embracing Deep Variability For Reproducibility and Replicability
Abstract: Reproducibility (aka determinism in some cases) constitutes a fundamental aspect in various fields of computer science, such as floating-point computations in numerical analysis and simulation, concurrency models in parallelism, reproducible builds for third parties integration and packaging, and containerization for execution environments. These concepts, while pervasive across diverse concerns, often exhibit intricate inter-dependencies, making it challenging to achieve a comprehensive understanding. In this short and vision paper we delve into the application of software engineering techniques, specifically variability management, to systematically identify and explicit points of variability that may give rise to reproducibility issues (eg language, libraries, compiler, virtual machine, OS, environment variables, etc). The primary objectives are: i) gaining insights into the variability layers and their possible interactions, ii) capturing and documenting configurations for the sake of reproducibility, and iii) exploring diverse configurations to replicate, and hence validate and ensure the robustness of results. By adopting these methodologies, we aim to address the complexities associated with reproducibility and replicability in modern software systems and environments, facilitating a more comprehensive and nuanced perspective on these critical aspects.
https://hal.science/hal-04582287
West Africa Forest-Farm Interface Project (WAFFI): Enhancing smallholder food security, incomes and gender equity within West Africa’s forest-farm interface
1. IFAD EU Workshop
24-25 May 2018
Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire
West Africa Forest-Farm
Interface Project (WAFFI)
(Enhancing Smallholder Food Security, Incomes and Gender
Equity within West Africa’s Forest Farm Interface)
2. The WAFFI Project
Applied, multi-disciplinary research to
identify practices and policy
interventions to improve livelihoods
and food security
12 village sites across two landscapes
in southern Burkina Faso and northern
Ghana
Project Activities:
• Promote social learning to build local
capacity
• Improve understanding of multi-use
landscape management
• Exchange and dialogue for knowledge
sharing and scaling
3. The Forest Farm Interface
A mosaic landscape of integrated
management combining agricultural,
forest and livestock land uses.
• Spatial and temporal combination of
agricultural, forest, agroforestry and
pastoralism
• Recognition that forest and trees are not
segregated from agriculture in smallholder
systems
• Production adapted to local context to support
livelihoods and food security
Tree products offer crucial safety net function (food
and income)
Use and dependence on tree products vary by
gender (sophisticated tree-tenure arrangements)
Subjected to increased pressure and change
4. Promoting Social Learning at
the Village Level
Auto-appraisal tool: assessment of
local issues, needs and opportunities
Participatory Action Research (PAR):
problem solving focused on emerging
local topics:
• Fuelwood access and shortage
• Over exploitation of trees (conflict of use
for food, fuel and fodder)
• Negotiation to adapt resource access
• Restoration of community forests
• Management of pastoral zones
5. Socio-ecological characterization with
innovative methodologies
LDSF (Land degradation surveillance framework) Soil and vegetation health -
tree diversity and regeneration trends – erosion and carbon stocks
POLYSCAPE Wealth ranking and forest dependency - Participatory mapping:
livelihood interactions with forest-farm interface – policy maps - ecosystem
services analysis and trade-offs
Burkina
Faso
Ghana
6. Improved understanding the
multi-use landscape
management
Common issues from focus groups
• Tension around resource access and
restrictions near conservation units
• Lack on income options during dry season
drives youth migration
• “Conflict of use” issues related to
forest/tree resources generate negative
impacts for women
• Accommodation of transhumant herders
and agricultural communities is a key
management issue
7. Engagement and Dialogue for
Knowledge Sharing and Scaling
Iterative learning process focused on
problem solving
• Exchange meetings with village
participants and researchers to:
• Review progress and results
• Define agenda for discussion with policy
makers
• Multi-stakeholder knowledge sharing:
Collaboration involving villagers,
researchers, key policy makers and
local/regional authorities
• Facilitated dialogue to enhance interaction
• Focus on agenda emerging from
grassroots.
8. Next Steps for WAFFI
Finalize collaborative research:
• PAR processes to build local capacity
at village scale
• Polyscape analysis to understand
livelihood and ecosystem service
interaction
• Gendered Value Chain Analysis (GVCA)
Validate and disseminate lessons
learned
• Multi-stakeholder knowledge sharing
platform to define adaptive strategies
• South-South exchange between sites
(including farmers, researchers and
policy makers)
The approach taken by the ICRAF team through collaboration with INERA (BF) and FORIG (Ghana) was:
1. Biophysical assessment using the LDSF in both countries (360 observation points on land use, vegetation and soil health) covering farmland and forestland under different governance regimes.
2. Polyscape:
Wealth ranking to understand inter-village wealth variations and household survey on dependency on forest resources using tools from both Gender Action in Learning System and Forestry Poverty Toolkit.
Facilitation of participatory mapping sessions: we first looked at livelihood boundaries for villages that crudely align with forest and market access gradients replicated in Burkina Faso and Ghana. With separate gender groups we identified land use types using local classifications and degradation areas. We validated the digitized maps and the same groups then identified ecosystem services (ES) in these discrete land use packages for which they assigned them a value and their levels of provisions. Where ES were associated with trees, we identified the most important species for delivering access to these services and their respective availability.
We will now combine this spatially explicit information with
resource planning maps used by policy/decision makers to look at how livelihood interact with policy and to better understand synergies and trade-offs in forest governance or riparian protection.
Degradation analysis and soil carbon data will also be compared in relationship to the delivery of ES and their future trends. Implications on how livelihood strategies/needs align with policies will be elicited and discussed during multiple stakeholder platforms to formulate policy and practice recommendations that can increase income and reduce gender inequities.