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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
A
workshop on 'Linkages of Forest Protection, Economic Growth and
Poverty Reduction - Issues and Approaches in Vietnam' will be
held in Hanoi, Vietnam on March, 4 to 6, 2009. The workshop is
co-organized by World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF),
Centre of International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Department
of Forestry, MARD Vietnam.
The
second call for papers is now opened until January 15, 2009. For
further details, please download
here.
RUPES Synthesis Notes:
A series
of project synthesis notes were published to highlight
the important research findings from the project. Click to download:
1.
National Policy Dialogue on Environmental Services Supply through
Regulation, Voluntary Agreements and Markets
2.
Social Mobilization and Local Awareness of Rights and Opportunities
for Environmental Services Market
3.
Conditional Tenure as a Reward for Environmental Services
4.
Dealing with myth-perceptions: how to reduce communication and
perception gaps before Rewards for Environmental Services
negotiations can start?
RUPES Project Completion Report
The 5
year RUPES-1 project was officially ended in the middle of 2007.
Project achievements included increased awareness at the grass-roots
level about the RUPES concept; tens of thousands of farmers
achieving greater land access security; strengthening of local
institutions and multi-stakeholder networks, including the site
technical working/advisory groups; and generating knowledge on
environmental services as global public goods.
A
Project Completion Report was submitted to the International Fund
for Agricultural Research (IFAD) as the main donor also highlighting
lessons learnt elaborated under the five project components. Download.
Featured Publications
Pro-Poor
Payment for Environmental Services: Some Considerations
A
policy brief discussing payment for environmental services related to the enabling conditions
for implementation and how the mechanism can be pro-poor.
Download
Property Rights, Environmental Services, and Poverty Alleviation in
Indonesia
Written
by John Kerr, et. al., the brief discusses the impacts of community
forestry, or Hutan Kemasyarakatan (HKm) in Lampung of
Indonesia, as a form of rewards to upland farmers for caring
their environment. The brief was based on a study carried out in
2008 under the BASIS-USAID Program. Download
Profiles
of RUPES Research Sites
Readers
will find these briefs useful to find more details about the six
RUPES sites, Download Singkarak,
Kalahan,
Bungo,
Kulekhani,
Sumberjaya,
and Bakun.
Brief
illustrations with drawings on RUPES Indonesian sites are available: Singkarak,
Bungo, and
Sumberjaya.
Featured Links
PRESA
- Pro-poor Rewards for Environmental Services in Africa PRESA
is a project implemented by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF),
with funding from the International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD), the European Commission and the Government of
Finland. Designed
to pilot pro-poor rewards for environmental services in an African
context, building on the lessons and experience of RUPES in Asia,
PRESA promotes healthy landscapes and sustainable rural livelihoods
through innovative market-based reward mechanisms. PRESA
will facilitate negotiations between ecosystem stewards and
beneficiaries towards fair and effective agreements. PRESA will
engage with a range of stakeholders in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and
Guinea, to catalyze policy support and private sector participation
in environmental service agreements.
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