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Ecoagriculture
Partners
The partnership is jointly sponsored by the
World Conservation Union (IUCN), Forest Trends and the World
Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). Ecoagriculture Partners intends to make
information about ecoagriculture globally available by producing a
newsletter. For subscribing for the newsletter, contact Anne Thiel
(email: athiel@forest-trends.org).
Visit www.ecoagriculturepartners.org
for more information.
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Nature
Valuation and Financing Network
A Network established to stimulate
development of practical tools for proper valuation of goods and
services provided by ecosystems and biodiversity, so that
decisions about economic development are made with full
understanding of all costs and benefits involved. Learn more at
the following link www.naturevaluation.org
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Program on
Forests (PROFOR)
PROFOR is a multi-donor trust fund program
housed at the World Bank within the Environmentally and Socially
Sustainable Development (ESSD) Forests Team. One of its concerns
is knowledge generation in four key thematic areas: forest
governance, forests' contribution to livelihoods of the rural
poor, mitigation of adverse cross-sectoral impacts on forests, and
innovative approaches to financing Sustainable Forest Management (SFM).
For more information, visit http://www.profor.info |
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The
Biodiversity Conservation Network (BCN)
The Biodiversity Conservation Network (BCN),
a component of the Biodiversity Support Program (BSP), is an
innovative USAID-funded program working in the Asia/Pacific Region
to provide grants for community-based enterprises that directly
depend on biodiversity. BCN has two goals: 1) promoting
community-based conservation and 2) testing the hypothesis that if
local communities receive sufficient benefits from a
biodiversity-linked enterprise, then they will act to conserve it.
For more information on
ASB, please see www.BCNet.org
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Alternative to
Slash and Burn (ASB) and ASB-South East Asia
ASB is a global partnership of over 50
institutions around the world with a shared interest in two of the
greatest challenges confronting the world today: conserving
forests and reducing poverty in the humid tropics. ASB was founded
in 1994 as a system-wide programme of the Consultative Group on
International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). ASB is convened by
the Nairobi-based International Centre for Research in
Agroforestry (ICRAF) and is governed by a global steering group of
12 representatives from participating institutions.
For more information on ASB, please see www.asb.cgiar.org
or www.asb.cgiar.org/southeastasia.shtm
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Developing
a System of Payments for Environmental Services: A Case for the
Philippine Upland Dwellers
Background: The Philippine
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has
initiated the development and implementation of market-based
instruments and other policies that provide incentives to forest
users to change their exploitative behavior into one that is
more forest conservation-oriented. In support of the
initiatives, this Study, undertaken by the Resources,
Environment and Economics Center for Studies (REECS) and the
Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) Vrije Universiteit,
Amsterdam will develop service payment schemes that would
establish the link between the supply of Department of
Environment and Natural Resources, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF),
and Conservation International - Philippines.
The Sites: (1) the Peņablanca
Protected Landscape (PPL) in Cagayan Province (2) Kalahan
Reserve in Nueva Vizcaya.
Site Selection Criteria: (1) good
and stable watershed condition; (2) well-defined environmental
services; and (3) adequate institutional capacity to implement the
payment system.
Program Objectives: 1. to identify
and value the ES provided by upland dwellers; 2. to estimate the
willingness to pay of ES beneficiaries; 3. to link directly the
ES suppliers and end-users; and 4. to assess the appropriate
prices for the ES.
General Approach: The development
of the payment systems for environmental services will be done
with the close involvement of the various stakeholders in the
two sites. This will include: the indigenous and migrant forest
dwellers, the ES beneficiaries, the DENR, the Protected Areas
Management Board (PAMB), the local government units, private
firms, and local-based non-government, civic and peoples'
organizations. The ES beneficiaries would include farmers, water
districts, hydropower plants, local residents downstream, the
global community and others, willingness to pay of these groups
for the services they enjoy will be estimated. The concerns and
interests of all the various stakeholders will be used in a
Multi-criteria Analysis (MCA) that will evaluate alternative ES
payment schemes and identify the best scheme/s
CONTACTS: REECS-PREM Project
Office, Philippine Social Science Center (PSSC), Commonwealth
Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City, Telefax No. (63+2) 9200748 Email: jar_amponin@yahoo.com
or bates_89@yahoo.com
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The Katoomba
Group
The Katoomba Group is an international
working group composed of leading experts from forest and energy
industries, research institutions, the financial world, and
environmental NGOs dedicated to advancing markets for some of
the ecosystem services provided by forests - such as watershed
protection, biodiversity habitat, and carbon storage. The
Katoomba Group seeks to address key challenges for developing
markets for ecosystem services, from enabling legislation to
establishing new market institutions, to developing strategies
of pricing and marketing, and monitoring performance. For more information, please
go to www.katoombagroup.org
Ecosystem Marketplace
The Marketplace is a live tool to connect
buyers and sellers of ecosystem services. It includes the latest
news on markets for water services, biodiversity services, carbon
credits, and other conservation-related transactions. Check-out
the Ecosystem Marketplace at www.ecosystemmarketplace.com |
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Forest
Trends
Forest Trends, a
Washington, D.C. based non-profit organization, was created in 1999
by leaders from conservation organizations, forest product
firms, research groups, multilateral development banks, private
investment funds and foundations. Its mission is to conserve
forests by promoting more diverse trade in the forest sector -
moving beyond an exclusive focus on lumber and timber to a
broader range of products and services. For more information on Forest-Trends,
please see www.forest-trends.org
Forest Trends also publishes Trendlines,
an e-newsletter published periodically and distributed via
email to subscribers. Sign
up here and begin receiving information on their work,
conferences and workshops. Subscriptions are free.
Past Trendlines issues can be obtained
here: www.forest-trends.org/whoweare/newsletter.htm |
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Poverty,
Inequality and the Environment (PIE) Project
The aim of this project is to explore how
market-based approaches to environmental management can help
reduce poverty, as well as satisfying economic and environmental
aims. The focus is on recent initiatives to develop markets and
other financial compensation mechanisms for environmental benefits
(services) in rural areas of the developing world. Research
findings are targeted at developing country governments, private
firms, donor agencies and other organizations working in the area.
For more information about PIE, please
see www.iied.org/eep/research/pie/mes.html
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