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The Future of Forests in Asia and The Pacific: Outlook For 2020.
16
– 18 October 2007, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Recent and unprecedented economic and social change in the
Asia-Pacific region has significantly altered the way forests
are regarded and used. It is in acknowledgement of a new
society-forest dynamics in the region that the Asia-Pacific
Forestry Commission, in partnership with member countries and
other international organizations, is conducting the second
Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study (APFSOS II). This
major international conference is being organized to strengthen
the consultative and capacity-building processes of APFSOS II by
bringing together diverse stakeholders and expertise to provide
broader perspectives on emerging changes, probable scenarios and
their implications for forests and forestry in the region. More
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Development
Ideas of Application of ICRAF’s Research Results in Aceh Barat
District. Meulaboh,
14 May 2007
The Research that has been conducted by ICRAF and its partner on
the reconstruction of livelihood, especially through the use of
tree crops in Aceh Barat District for more than one year has
resulted in applicable recommendations. The objectives of this
meeting are: 1. Informing various kinds of ICRAF research
outputs and progress in Aceh Barat District, especially on the
Reconctruction of
Green Infrastructure with Trees that the People Want (ReGrin);
2. To gather reflections on ICRAF’s coordinated research for
future research activities; 3. To agree, in principles, of
collaboration enhancement. More
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Visit
RUPES Kulekhani, To Share Experience with Environmental Services
in Nepal
Bustanul
Arifin and Perry Ong shared the experience achieved by RUPES
program in Indonesia and in the Philippines, particularly the
links between studies conducted, actions to empower poor farmers
and other stakeholders at the field level, and policy changes
towards the development of environmental service markets in both
countries. Bustanul
put more emphasis on the roles of RUPES technical committee and
RUPES policy committee in promoting environmental services in
Indonesia, which were then merged to become Committees
(community of interests to empower environmental services). More
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ASEAN
Social Forestry Networking:
Boosting
Cooperation to Promote Social Forestry for Sustainable Forest
Management
Indonesian government proposed an idea of cooperation
among ASEAN members countries to promote social forestry in the
region during the 7th ASEAN Senior Officials on
Forestry (ASOF) Meeting in Brunei Darussalam (2004). Following
up the endorsement of the idea by ASOF delegations, a regional
workshop on social forestry was held in Madiun – Indonesia
(2005). More
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Signing
Ceremony of Jungle Rubber Conservation Agreement in Bungo: Will
the Conservation Agreement Truly Save the Jungle Rubber?
Alongside the agreements are the reward supports given by the
RUPES Bungo Program to the communities. These rewards came as a
part of the RUPES goals to preserve the biodiversity richness of
the jungle rubber ecosystem, combined with the economic needs of
the communities. Each site has a different form of reward based
on the needs that have been explored and agreed together with
the communities. More
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Collaborative
Planning of Community Based Eco-Tourism in Forest Garden Park (Taman
Hutan Raya) Wan Abdul Rachman Hurun. South
Lampung District, Workshop on 27 March 2007.
In 1937, Gunung Betung
Register No.19 formerly was designated as a Protected Forest
Zone. The area covers about 22,224 hectares. Between
1940s-1980s, the area attracted in-migration especially
Sundanese migrants from East Java Province and
Semendonese migrants from South Sumatera Province. Up to
2004, the historical land status and land uses of the area
remains disputes over access, land status claims, border
conflict those caused by policy setting, economic driven, and
lately political interests. More
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New
Release Publication from
the World Bank
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Sustaining
economic growth, rural livelihoods, and environmental
benefits:
Strategic options for forest assistance in Indonesia
~ Click
here for direct link
~ Full
report (6.5mb pdf); Summary
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2007
ICRAF Science Meeting, held
in Nairobi, 26-28 February.
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Media Release
- Lombok Times
Key
'rural reward' workshop learns from Lombok's unique
environment.
ORGANISERS say the international workshop on rewards and
payments for rural communities providing environmental
services held in Lombok at the end of January identified many
opportunities to make existing programmes more realistic, more
voluntary and more conditional.
One of the key lessons learnt was that programmes with only
short time horizons of commitment have little chance of
success. Long term commitments are currently more likely where
watershed services are at stake than when biodiversity outside
of protected areas is the primary concern. More
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Poverty
Assessment and Reward, Village Conservation Agreement and Eco
Certification.
The poverty assessment
focus was born recently when the International Fund for
Agriculture (IFAD) the project donor wanted to know if RUPES
activities would affect poverty. In late November, staff
representatives from all the RUPES sites gathered in Bukit
Tinggi and hammered out a methodology for all the sites in the
RUPES project to use for identifying their perceptions of
causes and indicators of poverty. The choosing of rewards, however, has been long in
coming.
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Global Event
of Payments for Environmental Services.
Lombok, Indonesia – 22-27
January 2007
Globally, implementation of payments for environmental
services (PES) initiatives has been increasing in popularity.
In Asia, there are many initiatives/emerging projects and
research related to the development of markets of
environmental services, including RUPES Project that was
started in 2002 under the coordination of the World
Agroforestry Centre -
South East Asia Program (ICRAF-SEA).
To
move towards sharing all lessons learned and synthesis in
environmental transfer benefit sharing, an opportunity is
offered through a global event of payment for environmental
services. Agendas during the even include a scientific
conference, training on PES, practice workshop and field trip.
To
find more about the global event, visit
here.
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A
Series for RUPES Visits
Connecting
RUPES with Forest Financing Network in Latin America and
Asia-Pacific -- Commonality
of problems on developing financial mechanisms for sustainable
forest management (SFM) among Latin America and Asia-Pacific
countries is one of the conclusions of the FAO workshop in this
forest financing area.
Sumberjaya Auction Research presented in the 26th
Biannual EEPSEA Workshop -- …..the
EEPSEA Sumberjaya team gained many important comments for
further synthesizing the results, such as how to apply it to
other areas and how to present a good learning for others who
want to apply similar approach. The EEPSEA reviewers also
recognized that this work was very potential for being published
in peer-reviewed journals.
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News in 2007
