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Focus on climate change issues (Vol. 1, Issue 4)

30 August, 2017

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a265f550-9aaf-484a-968b-856bc6b1bfd4.jpgWelcome to FTA’s new-look newsletter series, with a special focus on climate change for this edition. Find out about food security, soil carbon, REDD+, timber licensing and more, in the specially curated news stories and videos below.

Among FTA’s many broader aims is helping to achieve gender equality. In addition to conducting research specifically on gender, FTA mainstreams gender throughout its research portfolio, aiming to make transformative change on multiple scales.

Thus, to mark the full integration of gender into our research program, we have united our “FTA” newsletters and “Focus on gender” newsletters in a unique FTA series. We welcome our gender readership to this new initiative.

In this new series, regular readers will now find special gender editions published periodically among the FTA newsletters received throughout the year. With gender being a cross-cutting theme of research for development, we trust that this will be of interest to our broad community of readers.

As always, we welcome your thoughts and feedback at cgiarforestsandtrees@cgiar.org.

Special feature

High Level Panel of Experts launches landmark report on sustainable forestry for food security and nutrition

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The HLPE, the independent science-policy interface of the United Nations Committee on World Food Security (CFS), recently launched a landmark report on sustainable forestry for food security and nutrition. The launch marked the first time that the CFS discussed the contributions of forests and trees to world food security, and how to enhance them – a significant debate at UN level.

FTA contributed to the elaboration of the report and looks forward to the multistakeholder discussions on policy convergence at CFS 44 in October, which will inform FTA priorities and research, for a development agenda with partners. To this aim, FTA will organize a side event at CFS 44 together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, the Netherlands, the Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative, Mars Inc. and Tropenbos International.

For more updates, stay tuned to FTA’s website and social media.

News

FTA cohosts meeting on soil carbon and climate change agenda

imagethumb.jpgSoil organic carbon is a key component of many essential soil functions, including food production, habitats and biodiversity, carbon storage, as well as water storage and filtration. Climate change is also altering the picture. A recent webinar, cohosted by FTA and other CGIAR research programs, aimed to build a common understanding of current soil carbon research and inform a vision and coordinated agenda.

Can REDD+ help Brazil roll back rising deforestation rates?

imagethumb.jpgSince the 1980s, Brazil has taken steps to reduce deforestation, with the greatest success occurring between 2004 and 2016, when the rate decreased by 71 percent. Some of those measures involved actions for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). Whether that improvement will be sustainable in the long run is unclear, however, as there has been a recent sharp increase in deforestation rates.

Forests, people and data: Participatory monitoring for REDD+ put to the test

imagethumb.jpgProtecting forests and child health? The connection may not be obvious. But before communities can be compensated for emissions reductions, it’s necessary to measure, report and verify their activities. With most REDD+ initiatives taking place in remote areas, and limited funding available, it’s been proposed that forest communities themselves participate in this monitoring, which could make communities feel more empowered and engaged in REDD+.

ASEAN calls for agroforestry guidelines to share benefits across the region

imagethumb.jpgThe Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is set to establish agroforestry guidelines to help its member states share benefits with their 650 million citizens. Led by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), the guidelines are to be developed through an open consultative process that will embrace governments, community groups and others, to provide a framework that states can adopt as appropriate for their local contexts.

ICRAF explores why people matter and jelutung holds promise for Indonesia’s peat

imagethumb.jpgIndonesia has suffered massive economic, environmental and health losses owing to fires that annually ravage peatland and from general poor management of the unique landscapes. Better management of Indonesia’s vast peatlands, some of the biggest and most efficient carbon stores on the planet, which have been extensively degraded, means working with the people who make their living from them.

Moving toward a sustainable cocoa sector in Ghana

imagethumb.jpgThe world’s favorite treat has never been more popular. In the past decade, the chocolate industry’s demand for cocoa has increased by 12% and production has barely been able to keep pace. At the same time, about 6 million cocoa producers face significant challenges. Improved and diverse planting stock that can resist pest and diseases, thrive in poor soils and grow in changing climatic conditions is in short supply.

Smart use of trees: Co-investment scheme improves livelihoods, maintains ecosystem services

imagethumb.jpgThe Climate-smart, Tree-based Co-investment in Adaptation and Mitigation in Asia (Smart Tree-Invest) project, which ran from 2014 to 2017, aimed to improve the livelihoods and resilience of smallholder farmers through the promotion of climate-smart, tree-based agriculture in Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines. The project reduced people’s vulnerability to climate change by involving smallholders as ecosystem service providers in a co-investment model.

A picture paints a thousand words for Smart Tree-Invest project

imagethumb.jpgAmong the most innovative aspects of the Smart Tree-Invest project was Photovoice, a participatory research method that saw cameras provided to farmers in field sites. The farmers thus had a creative way to express their perspectives, could better understand their vulnerabilities and capacities and more actively participated in discussing issues related to their land. Simultaneously, the researchers could collect baseline photographs of the landscapes.

New kid on the block in Indonesia’s timber export industry

imagethumb.jpgIndonesia is the only country in the world to have implemented Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) licensing so far, giving its furniture a competitive advantage in an increasingly discerning market as consumers pay more attention to the issues of a green environment, illegal logging, deforestation and sustainable production. A recent policy dialogue brought together varied stakeholders to discuss the challenges and benefits of meeting FLEGT requirements.

Banner photo by O. Girard/CIFOR. Special feature and news photos, from top, by: ©FAO/Giulio Napolitano; O. Girard/CIFOR; N. Palmer/CIAT for CIFOR; M. Boissière/CIFOR; ICRAF; R. Finlayson/ICRAF; J. Raneri/Bioversity International; ICRAF; ICRAF; M. Usman/CIFOR.

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Publications

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Fairtrade cocoa in Ghana: taking stock and looking ahead

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Baseline for assessing the impact of Fairtrade certification on cocoa farmers and cooperatives in Ghana

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Estimating smallholder opportunity costs of REDD+: A pantropical analysis from households to carbon and back

Motivation Matters: Lessons for REDD+ Participatory Measurement, Reporting and Verification from Three Decades of Child Health Participatory Monitoring in Indonesia

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Ecosystem services from community-based forestry in Nepal: Realising local and global benefits

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Reclaiming collective rights: land and forest tenure reforms in Peru (1960-2016)

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Value chain development in Nicaragua: prevailing approaches and tools used for design and implementation

 

Videos

Agroforestry for livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Northwest region of Vietnam

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Dreams come true: the benefits of agroforestry

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Impacts of Smart-Tree Invest project after 3 years

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Policy dialogue: CIFOR cohosts FLEGT talks in Jakarta

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Protecting North Sumatran mangroves, supporting biodiversity, people and the world

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Wild meat, between legitimacy and illegality

Events

IDH The Sustainable Trade Initiative webinar on measuring impact
Sept. 5, 2017
Online

ICRAF Science Week 2017
Sept. 11 – 13, 2017
Nairobi, Kenya

IUFRO 125th anniversary congress
Sept. 18 – 22, 2017
Freiburg, Germany

Committee on World Food Security 44
Oct. 9 – 13
Rome, Italy

Conference of the Parties 23
Nov. 6 – 17
Bonn, Germany


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FTA Focus on Gender June 2017

03 July, 2017

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Dear colleagues,
For the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA), a program with a key focus on policies, institutions and governance, gender inequalities present structural barriers to the change that is needed to support sustainable and equitable development solutions in landscapes. This is why concern for gender equality is truly integrated into FTA. In addition to conducting research specifically on gender and on women’s and men’s empowerment, FTA mainstreams gender throughout its research portfolio, aiming to make transformative change on multiple scales, from community to global levels.

As a means to inform about our research, FTA has until now used two separate newsletters – the regular FTA newsletter and the “Focus on Gender” newsletter, each with different registration lists. To mark the full integration of gender into our research program, we will from now on unite the two.

In the new unified series, a special gender edition of the FTA newsletter will be published periodically to draw out some of the distinctive gender work conducted within FTA, while all other editions will also strive to feature gender content.

Integrating the two newsletters into one unique series will help to increase the awareness of the broader FTA readership on gender issues. And for those specifically interested in gender, we believe there is value in being informed about the wider research FTA is doing to foster more sustainable and equitable forest and agroforest landscapes.

We also invite you to tell us how the newsletters could be even more relevant to you as a reader via cgiarforestsandtrees@cgiar.org.

Vincent Gitz, FTA Director
Marlène Elias, FTA Gender Research Coordinator

Featured Project

Gender, access to information and trees on farms: Considerations for climate change adaptation and mitigation. 

By Tatiana Gumucio – Gender Social Scientist, FTA Gender Integration Team

This project analyzes the conditions under which women’s participation in community-level groups may influence their capacities to access and implement information on the use of trees on farms, in a territory distinguished by high climatic risk in north-central Nicaragua. The research is carried out through collaborations with CATIE and ICRAF researchers based in Costa Rica and in Nicaragua. 
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News & Highlights

30 years of gender and forests

Currently, there is much interest in mainstreaming gender in natural resource management, including forestry. The new Earthscan Reader on Gender and Forests by Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Marlène Elias, Bimbika Sijapati Basnett and Susan Stevens Hummel provides a collection of key articles on gender and forests published over the last 30 years.
For the full blog see here

Sustainable management of natural forest resources requires engaging a diversity of stakeholders who use, manage and benefit from these resources. At the same time, control, access and use of these resources is influenced by gender.

See for the full blog here
See for the special issue on gender-responsive participatory forestry research here

How are FTA and CIFOR addressing gender and rights in forest and land use?

CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) gender scientist Bimbika Sijapati Basnett from the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) recently gave a speech during the Swedish royal visit to Indonesia.
See the entire blog here

Podcast: Equal rights & opportunities for women in oil palm

We speak to Dr. Bimbika Sijapati-Basnett, a Scientist and Gender Coordinator at CIFOR, to discuss what needs to be done to improve gender equality throughout the oil palm value chain and certification process.
Listen to the podcast here

Tenure reform: Lessons from the Global South

A Q&A with CIFOR´s researcher Anne Larson on the changing conditions of rights and resources in discussion at the World Bank Land and Poverty Conference.
Read the entire blog here

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Publications

Book: The Earthscan Reader on Gender and Forests
 

 

Special issue of gender-responsive participatory forestry research
 

 

Working paper: Gendered Knowledge and Perception on Managing Grassland Areas in East Sumba, Indonesia
 

 

Manual: LINK Methodology: Gender Responsive Manual
 

 

Article: Gender Bias Affects Forests Worldwide
 

 

Upcoming Events

IUFRO 2017 Congress
18 – 22 September, Freiburg, Germany

During which the book ´The Earthscan Reader on Gender and Forests´  will be launched.

AGRI4D Conference by the Swedish International Agricultural Network Initative
20th and 21st of September in Uppsala, Sweden.

Bimbika Sijapati Basnett will present.

                        

This newsletter is a product of the collaboration between the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bioversity International, and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) as part of the Research Program on Forest, Trees and Agroforestry of the CGIAR.

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Focus on peatlands and research results

21 June, 2017

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Welcome to the latest FTA newsletter showcasing peatlands and research results.

There have been many events, publications and achievements in the past two months, highlighted in blogs about the Global Landscapes Forum and the effects of our research. 

We are also pleased to announce the publication of a new FTA leaflet, in cooperation with CGIAR, which in a nutshell explains the main areas of focus of FTA research, the intended impacts and contributions toward sustainable development goals.

Furthermore, FTA is now on social media: For the latest on forests, trees and agroforestry, I invite you to follow the program’s new Twitter account @FTA_CGIAR and like the Facebook page @foreststreesagroforestry.

I thank you for your continued fidelity and readership. If you have any feedback on how we could make this newsletter more relevant to you as a reader, please contact us at cgiarforestsandtrees@cgiar.org.
NEWS

FTA's influence on debate at GLF on peatlands

imagethumb.jpgThe recent Global Landscapes Forum (GLF): Peatlands Matter, held in Jakarta, Indonesia, by the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), was a resounding success with 425 attendees and over 1,000 views of the livestream. Much of the content discussed at the event and at previous GLFs points directly to FTA research, and FTA scientists also attended and presented research at the forum. Prior to the event, FTA Director Vincent Gitz explained how the program sought to influence the peat debate.

 

Strength in numbers: How the Global Landscapes Forum connects the land use community

imagethumb.jpgFTA partners such as CIFOR, the World Agroforestry Centre, CIAT, CIRAD, CATIE and Bioversity International have been key actors in GLFs throughout the years, hosting discussion forums and side events as well as sharing information and advocating in their communities of practice. FTA has also cofinanced GLFs. Read this blog to find out what the GLF works towards and how it brings together key actors in land use.
 

Guardians of the forest inspire at Global Landscapes Forum

imagethumb.jpgIt is estimated that peatlands contain nearly twice as much carbon as all the world’s forests combined, despite the fact that they cover only 3-5 percent of the world’s surface. This makes them saving graces for climate control when protected, but terrifyingly destructive when burned and carbon dioxide is released. In this context, peatland communities throughout Indonesia have had to relearn how to live peaceably with their environments. This story gives a human perspective to the complex peatlands debate.
 

FTA scientists show China’s forest cover gains are dependent on definition

imagethumb.jpgA recently published FTA-related study, China’s fight to halt tree cover loss, shows that China, home to one-fifth of the global population, is seeing great pressures on natural resources. The country is making concerted afforestation efforts and working hard to reverse the trend of tree cover losses, according to the study. Despite this, the research showed that China’s forest cover gains are highly dependent on definition; one has to look at how the term ‘forest’ is used in order to quantify them.
 

A world with trees but without the word ‘forest’ – a thought experiment

imagethumb.jpgThe abovementioned paper carefully avoided the word forest in its title; it challenged the various definitions of forest that may cause more confusion than necessary, and preferred the more objectively observable ‘tree cover’ term for discussing what types of changes are occurring in China and whether or not the investments made by the state are delivering the services society wants. This leads to a thought experiment: Can we do without the word forest and its derivatives (deforestation, reforestation, afforestation, agroforestry, agroforestation)?
 

Money grows on clove trees in Sulawesi

imagethumb.jpgIn another example of impactful FTA research, the recently completed Agroforestry and Forestry in Sulawesi: Linking Knowledge with Action (AgFor Sulawesi) research in development project in Sulawesi, Indonesia, illustrates how tree genetic resources can positively affect livelihoods. Via AgFor Sulawesi, the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) used tree genetic resources to bridge gaps in production and promote resilience in local communities.
 

2 FTA-related publications in top 5 of Environmental Evidence’s most influential articles of 2016

imagethumb.jpgIn 2016, CIFOR scientists produced 388 publications, of which 204 were journal articles. CIFOR’s publications were downloaded over 1 million times during the year and received more than 10,500 citations. Out of the 204 articles published in scientific journals, two articles were ranked in the top 5 most influential articles of 2016 of Environmental Evidence, according to Altmetric.com, and are among the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
 

How are FTA and CIFOR addressing gender and rights in forest and land use?

imagethumb.jpgFTA gender scientist Bimbika Sijapati Basnett from CIFOR recently gave a speech during the Swedish royal visit to Indonesia. The presentation provided an overview of how FTA and CIFOR are integrating gender in new and emerging areas, while also reminding the audience of the challenges that lie ahead. The forestry sector has much to contribute toward combatting gender inequalities and enhancing the full enjoyment of human rights by women and girls, Sijapati Basnett said.

CGIAR Portfolio 2017-2022: Transforming global agriculture and food systems

imagethumb.jpgLast month, CGIAR officially launched its new research portfolio, comprising 11 research programs and three platforms, representing the second generation of its multidimensional work streams. FTA is key among these programs, and began work for the new phase back in January. The program was pleased to mark the official launch with this blog and to see its new profile on the CGIAR website.

 

      
     
    

Videos

The power of science communication: How can the media help protect peatlands?

Activist Emmanuela Shinta discusses tackling peatland issues on a local level

ICRAF Geospatial Analyst Atiek Widayati talks about people and peat at GLF

How are FTA and CIFOR addressing gender and rights in forest and land use?

People and peat: Making a living on protected land

Rewetting Indonesia’s peatlands

What really happens when peat swamp-forest is cleared?

 

Publication

China’s fight to halt tree cover loss

China’s conversion of cropland to forest program: a systematic review of the environmental and socioeconomic effects

Does the gender composition of forest and fishery management groups affect resource governance and conservation outcomes? A systematic map

Managing peatlands in Indonesia: Challenges and opportunities for local and global communities

New map reveals more peat in the tropics

Agroforestry on peatlands: combining productive and protective functions as part of restoration

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Focus on cool insights symposium April 2017

20 April, 2017

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Focus on cool insights symposium

Welcome to the second FTA newsletter of this year, dedicated to our recent Cool insights for a hot world: Trees recycle water and modify climate event.

On the double occasion of International Day of Forests and World Water Day, we brought together leading experts, including from FTA, for an online symposium on the nexus of trees, water and climate, along with more than 200 participants on the web.

The research findings that served as fodder for the discussions could turn a lot of today’s thinking on its head in terms of the relationship between climate, forests and water. This newsletter brings you recordings from the event, two blogs on the topic and an overview of the implications.

Closely related to these cool insights, I would also like to draw your attention to the Global Landscapes Forum: Peatlands Matter on 18 May in Jakarta. Peatlands are important for carbon and are a major component of the water cycle. GLF Peatlands will discuss challenges and solutions for the preservation of these highly sensitive landscapes and the vital roles they play. 

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Symposium news

 

Recordings from FTA's first online symposium available now

If you missed the Cool insights for a hot world virtual symposium, you now have the chance to watch recordings of the sessions on the FTA website. The presenters, including authors of the Trees, forests and water: Cool insights for a hot world research paper, shared their insights on the recent findings, which have shed new light on the role of forests and trees in the climate debate. Read also the event recap blog.

Save the forests, or lose the rain

Every day, forests replenish the supply of water vapor in the atmosphere. Along with evaporation from oceans and other water bodies, this is what drives the water cycle and charges the atmosphere with water vapor. The process is so powerful that it can even be seen from space. Watch the video.

Turning the global conversation on trees, forests and climate on its head

Recent cross-cutting research from 22 scientists, including a number from FTA, provides examples of how trees cool down our planet. The scientists found evidence for the widespread perception that trees and forests can influence rainfall. Read more in the blog.

Cool insights – hot consequences

The predominent perspective on forests and climate change could change radically in the future, participants in FTA's recent online symposium heard. Importantly, the change may not come from carbon, but from water. Find out here what FTA Director Vincent Gitz and FTA Landscape Research Leader Meine van Noordwijk have to say about the matter.

Global Landscapes Forum will show why peatlands matter

Research on peatlands — the world’s largest carbon sinks — is an important theme of FTA, so the upcoming Global Landscapes Forum: Peatlands Matter is of particular importance to us. The focus of the event will be to identify landscape-level solutions and accelerate measurable action on the ground in negotiating conflicting land-use demands. 

 

      
     
    

Videos

Peter Holmgren – Opening Remarks

Tony Simons – Closing remarks

Vincent Gitz – Consequences for an exciting research program

David Ellison – Cool insight for a hot world

Meine van Noordwijk – Rainbow water and teleconnections

Cindy Morris – Biological rainfall triggers

Victoria Gutierrez – Implications for forest landscape restoration

Elaine Springgay – FAO forest and water policy analysis

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FTA Focus on Gender March 2017

14 March, 2017

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Dear friends and colleagues,

Welcome to the ninth edition of the FTA Gender Integration Team Newsletter: Focus on Gender. In this issue we would like to commemorate International Women´s Day.

This year´s theme is ´the working world of women´. In line with this, the newsletter features a research study  on gender and oil palm production and two exciting videos telling the story of the female oil palm farmers in Indonesia. In this issue you can also find an invitation to our up coming side event during the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 2017) in New York (March 13-24). And, as usual, you can find our latest news, publications, updates and upcoming events.

Please feel free to share with us any gender and forests related resources, tools or information you may have. Your comments and feedback on the newsletter are welcome and encouraged. To get in touch, please email Ana Maria Paez Valencia. 

Warm regards,
The FTA Gender Integration Team

Thoughts on Gender

 
Hear from Magdalena Pandan, a 35-year-old oil palm plantation worker in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, who rises before dawn every day to carry out her duties toward her job, her family and her crop lands. Read more
 
Hear from CIFOR scientist Bimbika Sijapati Basnett on her team’s research into issues related to gender and women in the expansion of the oil palm industry in Indonesia. Read more

Featured Project

Gender in Oil Palm
Examining gender gaps in Indonesia’s palm oil industry

By Bimbika Sijapati Basnett and Leona Liu (CIFOR)

Oil palm expansion threatens to displace local women from the lands where they cultivate their food crops, and this way help to feed their families. Furthermore, the women´s work contributions to oil palm production are largely unrecognized, and in the rare cases that they are, women are overrepresented in the ‘casual worker’ category, with limited entitlement to decent working conditions. Finally, gender issues are not considered in policies, certification bodies and regulations in the sector.  Read more

Focus on Gender Research

This is a brief update on selected gender-related research that is ongoing within the CGIAR research programme on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA). 

Gender research at CIFOR
A summary of all CIFOR´s gender related projects. Read more

Review of guides for gender-equitable value chain development –  Taking stock of seven guides for development practitioners on how to design and implement gender-equitable VCD to flush out their strengths, limitations, and gaps. Read more

Celebrating gender and biodiversity – On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Bioversity international has launched a series of factsheets on “Creating mutual benefits: examples of gender and biodiversity outcomes from Bioversity International’s research”. Read more

Gender, group membership and trees on farms in Nicaragua

This project has the objective to analyze how women’s and men’s participation in groups may influence their capacities to access and implement information on the use of trees on farms in a Climate-Smart Village in Tuma la Dalia, Nicaragua. Read more

News & Highlights

We would like invite you to join our discussion on:
´The impacts of commercialisation in agriculture and forestry on women’s decent employment´.
Kindly remember to register for the NGO CSW61 Forum here. 
 

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Publications

 
Article: Gender and forests: climate change, tenure, value chains and emerging issues (Bioversity International)

 
Article: Identifying gender-sensitive agroforestry options: Methodological considerations from the field.

 
Article: Whose Knowledge, Whose Development? Use and Role of Local and External Knowledge in Agroforestry Projects in Bolivia.

Article: Gendered Responses to Drought in Yunnan Province, China

 
Working Paper: Gender dynamics in Peru and Nicaragua. (CIAT).

 
Working Paper: Gendered perspectives of trees on farms in Nicaragua: Considerations for agroforestry, coffee cultivation, and climate change. (CIAT).

Working Paper: Agroforestry and Forestry in Sulawesi series: Women’s participation in agroforestry: more benefit or burden? A gendered analysis of Gorontalo Province. (World Agroforestry Centre)

 
Brief: Strengthening women’s tenure rights and participation in community forestry (CIFOR)

Upcoming Events

54th Annual Meeting of the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC)  – ICRAF, CATIE, Bioversity and CIAT will be coordinating and contributing to the symposium Trees outside forest: biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services and livelihoods for resilient landscapes at the ATBC.

                        

This newsletter is a product of the collaboration between the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bioversity International, and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) as part of the Research Program on Forest, Trees and Agroforestry of the CGIAR.

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Welcome to our first newsletter of 2017 and of the new phase of FTA research. We have asked our coordinators to tell us about their upcoming highlights to find out the latest about climate research, tree genetic resources, landscapes, smallholder livelihoods and value chains. In my first blog as FTA Director, I’ll be giving you my take on what the new phase and this year hold in store for our program. Besides that, we’ve asked our new partners Tropenbos International and INBAR to bring in their ideas for 2017. We will also look back at some of last year’s events such as the Global Landscapes Forum, the CBD COP13 and the first conference of the African Ecosystems Partnership.

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FTA phase 2: Research for SDGs, climate and food security

In 2017, for the first time, the UN Committee on World Food Security will discuss the roles of forests and nutrition, and FTA is contributing to the scientific report that will underpin these discussions. But this isn’t the only reason why FTA Director Vincent Gitz is excited about new opportunities to make research on forests, trees and agroforestry relevant. Read his blog here.

Forests and climate change 2017

With the new phase of FTA, the scientists who focus on climate change have big plans in four key areas. Find out more from this blog.

Building on past success for better quality science

The gender specialists within FTA want to continue their successful work this year. One focus is on action research, using innovative methodologies. Improving awareness of gender issues and the capacities to address them, remains key. Read more here.

Meet FTA’s new partners: Tropenbos International and INBAR

Two new partners have come on board for the second phase of FTA, with a stronger focus on getting research findings to the people for whom they matter. Tropenpos International and INBAR shared their plans and thoughts on what this means for the program and for themselves.

Livelihoods research 2017: Better be bold

To tackle the challenges of overcoming poverty and hunger without trashing our planet, you’d better be bold. This is what the livelihood systems Flagship of FTA will be trying in the new phase starting this year. What this means exactly? You’ll see here.

Strengthening the impact of FTA research

In Phase II, FTA is developing its monitoring team MELIA as a core research and support unit with team members from each of the participating centers—the perfect opportunity to help improve research quality and research effectiveness within FTA, the CG, and beyond. Read the blog here.

Bringing value into global value chains: Sustainability, smallholders and finance

In 2017, Flagship 3 will continue its work to improve the sustainability of value chains and include smallholders. A big part of the activities is also about building bridges to connect responsible financial institutions and innovative financing mechanisms with smallholders and land users in forest landscapes. Read more about their research plans here.

Where are we going? 2017 brings reorientation in landscape research

The landscapes theme of FTA is plunging right into the new phase with an event to rethink the connection between trees, water and climate. Read here how the scientists are reorienting some of their research and what else they have planned for this year.

Tree seed selection, genome sequencing and much more

Among the major outputs of Flagship 1 research this year will be a contribution to an assessment of the global status of biodiversity and a global survey of tree seed selection with regards to landscape restoration. Also researchers look forward to the first results of genome sequencing of both crop and tree species under the African Orphan Crops Consortium. Read here what else is coming up under this theme. 

CGIAR and CBD reinforce support for biodiversity and Aichi Targets

The CGIAR and its research programs, including FTA, will put more emphasis on research that is relevant for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Aichi Targets. At the recent CBD COP13, both sides extended the existing agreement to support the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity. Read more here.

First conference of African Ecosystem Partnership in Nairobi

For the first time, researchers of the African Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) came together for a conference and emphasized the need to account for natural capital. One example given was Kenya’s first biodiversity atlas of the country’s natural capital. Read more about the conference here.

Global Landscapes Forum 2016 outcome statement is out

Are you curious what came out of last year’s Global Landscapes Forum, the biggest annual FTA event? Read the outcome statement here.

Videos

FTA events recap from CBD COP13

Two forest landscape rehabilitation initiatives in Ethiopia

Legalizing Cameroon’s timber production chain

A role for gender in sustaining biodiversity

 

    
    
    

 

Publications

Valuing the Cameroonian Forest: Special Issue

Addressing Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Together: A Global Assessment of Agriculture and Forestry Projects

Certify and shift blame, or resolve issues? Environmentally and socially responsible global trade and production of timber and tree crops

Forest use in Nicaragua: Results of a survey on gendered forest use, benefits and participation

Can conservation funding be left to carbon finance? Evidence from participatory future land use scenarios in Peru, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Mexico

Success from the ground up: Participatory monitoring and forest restoration

Host country governance and the African land rush: 7 reasons why large-scale farmland investments fail to contribute to sustainable development

Guinea pig or pioneer: Translating global environmental objectives through to local actions in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia’s REDD+ pilot province

Measuring the effectiveness of landscape approaches to conservation and development

  

Presentations

Success from the Ground Up? Participatory Monitoring in Forest Restoration

FTA and the Convention on Biological Diversity

‘Integrated Landscape Approaches’: A systematic map

Peatland restoration: the role of agroforestry

Forestry and landscapes: Solutions for sustainable development

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FTA Newsletter Issue #6 2016 – Focus on partnership

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Focus on partnership



Welcome to our last newsletter of the year under the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA). This is also my first newsletter as the new Director of FTA and I really look forward to working with you all.

This newsletter is about partnerships. Partnerships are at the heart of FTA, they are key to achieving quality and breadth of research, and they are what enables the delivery of solutions and the impact of the program on the ground.

Before going into the next phase of FTA (2017-2022) in January, we asked our Flagship coordinators to take stock of partnerships and tell us about their experiences. My predecessor Robert Nasi and Tony Simons, Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) will give us their view on partnerships at FTA. And we’re bringing in the perspective of our two new partners in the next phase: Tropenbos International and INBAR. Good news comes from a successful Global Landscapes Forum that ended with a very positive bang for everyone involved in sustainable land use.

There is so much that we can achieve by working well together. So let us build on a successful FTA phase 1 and put partnerships, more than ever, at the heart of FTA in phase 2.

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Scientists without borders
ICRAF

In the next phase, FTA researchers will have a “fantastic opportunity to work towards global goals”, says ICRAF’s Director General Tony Simons. In an interview on partnerships, the past and the future of FTA he showed his enthusiasm about being part of the largest research program on forests, trees and agroforestry, which he even described as “scientists without borders”. Read the full interview here. 
 

Building a strong partnership for forests, trees and agroforestry
FTA

Robert Nasi has been at the helm of FTA from 2011-2016 and witnessed how it became a mature research partnership. In his farewell blog, the previous FTA Director speaks of solidarity and problem-solving. Read more here.
 

CIRAD and FTA: Diversity, commitment and shared goals
CIRAD

Joining FTA was a natural choice for CIRAD, since many of their researchers had collaborated with CIFOR, ICRAF and Bioversity International for a long time. After six years, CIRAD’s Plinio Sist gives a positive assessment of the partnership. And he has a very clear priority for the next phase.

Influence flows both ways
Flagship 1

Fergus Sinclair wants his research to make an impact on food security. This is why he works with the funding partners to develop a research agenda that meets their needs. The researchers suggest innovations to meet development challenges while the donors evaluate these ideas. Read the full blog on partnerships in livelihoods systems research.
 

How to reconcile conservation of trees with commercial use
Flagship 2

Bioversity International is one of the six managing partners of FTA and during the first phase led research on forest and tree resources. At the recent Tropentag 2016, Coordinator Laura Snook and other researchers discussed the tricky issue of how to conserve trees when local people also need them for their livelihoods. Read about the discussion here.

Long-term partnerships benefit research on tree genetic resources
New Flagship

Ramni Jamnadass, Coordinator of research on tree genetic resources in the next phase of FTA, looks back at fruitful long-term relationships with research partners and the private sector. A lot depends on mutual expectations, she says, and it’s not at all about money. Read the blog here.

The best science is nothing without local voices
Flagship 3

Meine van Noordwijk is adamant: Only with local partners can researchers make sure that the knowledge they produce is tune in with local issues. He wants research outputs to be understood at local level, and to be presented by local voices. But, of course, research on landscapes relies on very different partners to get the full picture. Read more here.

Partners must trust each other
Flagship 4

Christopher Martius has known plenty of good partnerships during the first phase of FTA. And the really good ones have one thing in common, of that he is sure: They are all built on mutual trust. Read more about his thoughts on partnerships in climate change research here.

Alignment is key to make partnerships work
Flagship 5

FTA has made progress in integrating its work on global value chains with the research on farmer systems and livelihoods that is led by ICRAF. These two research streams ideally complement each other, says Coordinator Pablo Pacheco. His main take-away after six years of partnerships: long-term alignment is the key to success. Read more on his views here.

Connecting with countries
Tropenbos International

Rene Boot looks forward to a fascinating challenge: More than 200 FTA scientists around the world need to get knowledge to where it is wanted. And his organization, Tropenbos International, can help them fill that gap. This is one of the reasons they will be joining FTA next year. Read more here.

Bringing in the right development expertise
INBAR

Hans Friederich, Director General of INBAR, sees strong synergies between his work on bamboo and rattan and the goals of FTA. Read here why he is excited to bring his organization into the FTA partnership next year.
 

From Berlin to Marrakesh: Good news travelled fast
FTA

The future of the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) is secure: In Marrakesh, the German government announced that it will host the GLF in Bonn for the next four years. Now GLF partners can get to work on their idea of going really big. Read more about their plans here.

Inside a partnership in DR Congo
CIFOR

One of the successful academic partnerships under FTA is the collaboration with the University of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which has dramatically increased the number of trained forest staff. Christian Amani, a former student from DRC who now works as a scientific adviser for CIFOR, has a lot to tell about the program.

 

    
    
    

 

Publications

Local knowledge on the role of trees to enhance livelihoods and ecosystem services in Ho Ho Sub-watershed, north-central Viet Nam

Landscape management in the vicinity of Tangale Nature Reserve Area (upstream of Limboto-Bone Bolango watershed), Gorontalo Province

Minimizing the footprint of our food by reducing emissions from all land uses

Natural regeneration as a tool for large-scale forest restoration in the tropics: prospects and challenges

Challenges and opportunities for sustainable rubber in Myanmar

  

Presentations

Trees on farms: Unexplored big wins for climate change through landscape restoration

Is household forest clearing affected by REDD+?

Sustainable landscapes and food systems: Evidence for integration

A rose by any other name? Evaluating integrated landscape approaches in the tropics

Right tree right place: vegetationmap4africa and Uganda Tree Finder

Africa’s Great Green Wall: Building Prosperity and Resilience

Effects of climate change and deforestation on potential of carbon sequestration and its implication in forest landscape restoration

Developing partnerships between CIFOR and the private plantation sector

Videos

FTA event coverage: Germany will host Global Landscapes Forum in Bonn

FTA event coverage: Climate meets landscape, opening plenary 2016 Global Landscapes Forum

FTA event coverage: Developing strategies to operationalize integrated landscape approaches

Peter Holmgren: ‘Climate solutions will have to happen in the landscape’

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Dear colleagues,

Welcome to our ninth edition of the FTA Gender Integration Team Newsletter: Focus on Gender.
FTA scientists actively participated and contributed to events and discussions during the latest Conference of the Parties (COP22) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). This issue focuses on their thoughts and experiences on gender and climate change in the context of forests, trees and agroforestry.

Please feel free to share with us any gender and forest-related resources, tools or information you may have. Your comments and feedback are welcome and encouraged. To get in touch, please email Ana Maria Paez Valencia.

Warm regards,
The FTA Gender Integration Team

Thoughts on Gender

Reflections on COP22 and gender 

By Markus Ihalainen, Associate Professional Officer – Gender Integration Team, Center for International Forestry Research

A key decision made in Morocco signals promise. Here’s a look at some key dimensions of this decision in the context of the broader debates around gender and climate change . Read more

News & Highlights

Learning from women’s and men’s perspectives on agroforestry to enhance climate change strategies and actions in Latin America

A recent webinar shared insights from ICRAF and CIAT research projects in sites in South and Central America addressing the question of how does consideration of women’s and men’s uses of and benefits from forest and tree resources make a difference for successful agroforestry strategies targeting climate change adaptation and mitigation.

More information on the webinar presentations, recommended readings, and the recording of the webinar itself can be found here (in Spanish only)

Talking gender before COP 22 

Are women considered in climate policy? How is gender understood in global climate commitments?CIFOR scientists discuss the main issues related to gender and climate change in the lead-up to COP22 in Marrakesh. Read more
 

Talking gender before COP22

 

Small is beautiful: Restoring degraded lands, one parcel at a time

One of ten blogs in Bioversity’s CBD COP13 Forest and Landscape Restoration Blog Series. To see all click here
 

 

FTA scientists at CBD COP13 in Mexico

Gender was a cross-cutting theme at the CBD COP 13 in Mexico, with FTA scientists playing a key role in the discussions on gender and forest biodiversity. Read More
 

 

Why keeping women engaged will be vital for implementing NDCs.Read more
 

 

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Publications

Article: Gender-responsive participatory research for social learning and sustainable forest management
 

 

Article: Tree-cover transition in Northern Vietnam from a gender-specific land-use preferences perspective
 

 

Article: Gender-specific responses to climate variability in a semi-arid ecosystem in northern Benin
 

 

Article: Beyond dichotomies: Gender and intersecting inequalities in climate change studies
 

 

Brief: Exploring gender and forest, tree and agroforestry value chains: Evidence and lessons from a systematic review
 

 

Brief: Strengthening women’s tenure rights and participation in community forestry
 

 

Poster: Engendering social and environmental safeguards in REDD+: lessons from feminist and development research
 

 

The Best of Focus on Gender

Gender and Climate Change: evidence and experience: A set of briefs on gender and climate change based on the experience of nine different organizations
 

 

Rural women across the globe: Linking livelihoods and landscapes In this photo essay, rural women from all over the world have their say. Listen to their stories and see their photos
 

 

                        

This newsletter is a product of the collaboration between the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bioversity International, and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) as part of the Research Program on Forest, Trees and Agroforestry of the CGIAR.

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21 October, 2016

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Dear friends and colleagues,

Welcome to the eigth edition of the FTA Gender Integration Team Newsletter: Focus on Gender. On this issue we would like to commemorate the International Day of Rural Women and invite you to knowledge and celebrate rural women for the contributions they make to their households, their communities and their landscapes.
Please feel free to share with us any gender and forests related resources, tools or information you may have. Your comments and feedback on the newsletter are welcome and encouraged. To get in touch, please email Ana Maria Paez Valencia. 

Warm regards,
The FTA Gender Integration Team

Thoughts on Gender

Photo Essay: Rural women across the globe: Linking livelihoods and landscapes

In this photo essay, rural women from all over the world have their say. Listen to their stories and see their photos

To celebrate the UN International Day of Rural Women, CIFOR’s Gender Coordinator Dr. Bimbika Sijapati Basnett shares her views on the progress and the challenges for women living and working in rural areas.

Read the blog: Shedding light on opportunities and challenges for rural women

Featured Project & Researcher

Project: Agroforestry and Forestry in Sulawesi: Linking Knowledge with Action (AgFor)

Researcher: Elok Mulyoutami, Local Ecological Knowledge & Farming System Analyst, World Agroforestry Centre ICRAF

“Group discussions are used to identify the gender roles and knowledge regarding agriculture production, livelihoods and natural resource management. That way, the communities can identify for themselves that each gender holds crucial knowledge and skills. They can understand the importance of a gender-equitable approach…” 

To read the full interview with Elok click here. 

Focus on Gender Research

This is a brief update on selected gender-related research that is ongoing within the CGIAR research programme on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA). 

Gendered dimensions of agricultural land investments –  This research examines the ways in which women and men are differently affected by agribusiness expansion into forested landscapes of Tanzania.
For a list of all of CIFOR’s gender-related projects, click here.

Gender and climate change in China’s Yunnan Province – This research is part of a wider initiative investigating how gender has influenced climate change adaptation throughout the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. 

Conservation for diversified and sustainable use of fruit tree genetic resources in Central Asia – Results will provide guidance on how to foster the equitable participation of men and women in the management of fruit tree genetic resources in home gardens and forests in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. 

Looking at gender in coffee agroforestry in Nicaragua –  The research on gender, tree uses, and decision-making patterns among shade coffee producers in Tuma la Dalia, Nicaragua has made some progress

News & Highlights

Women’s shifting rights to precious tree resources in burkina faso

Read the blog and watch the short video on shifting access rights to the néré tree
 

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Once, there was a lake
A story about how change in natural landscapes also affects and transforms social and cultural norms, and power and gender relations
 

 
 

Photo: Jeremy Weate

 
 

Photo: Jeremy Weate

 

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Publications

 
Article: Negotiating across difference: Gendered exclusions and cooperation in the shea value chain  

 
Article: Building value chains for indigenous fruits: lessons from camu-camu in Peru

 
Article: Challenges for women’s participation in communal forests: Experience from Nicaragua’s in digenous territories 

 
Article: Exploring local knowledge and preferences for shea (Vitellaria paradoxa) ethnovarieties in Southwest Burkina Faso through a gender and ethnic lens

 
Article: Engendering social and environmental safeguards in REDD+: lessons from feminist and development research

 
Brief: Mixing methods for holistic project evaluations: revisiting Nepal’s home garden project through a qualitative lens

Upcoming Events

COP 22 Marrakesh: The FTA gender integration team is partnering with a wide range of organizations to organize the following events in conjunction with the UNFCCC COP22 in Marrakesh:12 November – Skills share session at the GGCA Innovation Forum
14 November – Gender in Climate Policy – Translating Global Mandates into National Policy and Action
16 November – High-level panel discussion at Global Landscapes ForumRead more

Bogota, Colombia October 11-12: Encuentro Latinoamericano “Tierra, territorio y derechos de las mujeres afrodescendientes’ – organized by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) the workshop brings together women leaders across the Latin American region, including government, experts, and donors around the topic of women tenure rights in collective systems.

Cancun, Mexico December 9: Forest and Agriculture Day at the Rio Conventions’ Pavilion during the 13th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 13) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) – The CBD Secretariat organizes the day in collaboration with various partners including Bioversity International, CIFOR and ICRAF where Gender will be a cross-cutting theme.

Events Reports

The Book ‘Gender and Forests’ garnered international attention among decision-makers and communicators at FAO’s Forestry Week and the Committee on Forestry (COFO) in July in Rome and at the Joint Workshop of the UNECE-FAO Forest Communicators Network and IUFRO Communications and Public Relations Working Party in Portland, Oregon (USA) in August. Watch a short video produced by FAO where one of the authors Carol Colfer delivered powerful messages about why and how gender matters in research and practice on forests.

                        

This newsletter is a product of the collaboration between the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bioversity International, and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) as part of the Research Program on Forest, Trees and Agroforestry of the CGIAR.

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Focus on Landscape management for environmental services, biodiversity conservation and livelihoods

Welcome to our FTA newsletter #5 with a focus on Landscape management for environmental services, biodiversity conservation and livelihoods—in the run up to the 2016 Global Landscapes Forum. The good news is that the CGIAR System Council has just approved 11 Research Programs, including FTA. In this issue, we take a look at the soon to be refreshed Landscapes Portal, Indonesia’s forest moratorium, children’s diets in different landscapes and a land restoration success story, among others. This will be my last newsletter addressed to you, as my successor Vincent Gitz will take over the job of FTA Director on 1 November. I wish him good luck and success as he will steer FTA into the next phase. I feel privileged that I had the chance to help build this Research Program and am confident it will continue to deliver meaningful results which will positively impact people’s lives and, of course, I will still remain involved and contribute to the success of our joint efforts.

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New CGIAR FTA Director to start on 1 November
FTA

 

From 1 November, the CGIAR FTA will have a new Director. French national Vincent Gitz joins the program from the French Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood and Forestry, where he served as Assistant Director for Food Policy. Read more about him here.
 

New insights from an old project
ICRAF

 

The Shinyanga land restoration project is a favorite tale in the development aid and research communities. Scientists with the CGIAR FTA hope that it can now be a model for the new land restoration movement and teach a lesson or two about climate-smart landscapes. Find out why.

Be part of the 2016 Global Landscapes Forum in Marrakesh
FTA

 

The UNFCCC COP 22 is approaching fast and so is this year’s Global Landscapes Forum, the biggest event under the CGIAR FTA. There is still time to present your organization, enterprise or idea on climate action for sustainable development. Find out here what you can do.

How to make Indonesia’s forest moratorium more effective
ICRAF

 

If Indonesia combined a forest moratorium with livelihood support for the local population it could significantly reduce its CO2 emissions, a CGIAR FTA study suggests. Researchers modelled the effects of three different scenarios for two districts in Kalimantan. The results were striking.

Linking landscapes to children’s diets in Indonesia
CIFOR

 

Do children eat better close to trees? This conclusion might be a bit daring. But it seems to be true that kids living in tree-dominated landscapes have healthier diets than kids living in the same regions without trees. This is what a new study under the CGIAR FTA suggests. Read more here.

Landscape Portal gearing up for next phase
ICRAF

 

The Landscape Portal with its interactive maps, e.g. on the CGIAR FTA Sentinel Landscapes project, has matured over the past five years. This open-source, interactive tool counts between 100 and 300 users per day from all over the world. For the next phase scientists promise more features and improved ease of use. Find out more here.

Could timber plantations boost forest conservation?
CIFOR

 

Large-scale monoculture timber plantations don’t have the best reputation, especially not among conservationists. But what if they actually benefitted forest conservation? How? By easing pressure on natural forests, scientists under the CGIAR FTA suggest after reviewing a wealth of literature on the question. Find out more here.

Sulawesi district wants to keep FTA agroforestry project
ICRAF

 

The district of Buol in Sulawesi, Indonesia thinks it is smart to stick with the useful Smart-Tree Invest project, co-funded by the CGIAR FTA. After four years, the project that aims to improve smallholder livelihoods through agroforestry will run out in 2017. Now the district government has made a smart move to keep it going.

Sustainable landscape management needs a practical push
CIFOR

 

CGIAR FTA scientists have been advocating for a landscape approach to land use management for a long time. Still, it is difficult to find concrete examples of where landscape approaches have worked. But that could change if the different land use sectors exchanged their views and experiences. An upcoming event wants to foster exactly that.

Soils and seeds
ICRAF

 

How are biodiversity and ecosystem services linked? This is one of the questions addressed in the recently published Handbook of Ecosystem Services to which CGIAR FTA researchers have contributed. One chapter in the book focuses specifically on soil biodiversity. The authors argue that we need to know more about this hidden biodiversity. And about the ways plants and soil interact to provide the ecosystem services that are required for sustainable agriculture.

A virtuous cycle of virtually no waste
ICRAF

 

Despite impressive economic growth in Asia and the Pacific, over half a billion people in the region still go hungry. Climate-smart agriculture, including agroforestry, has huge potential to improve food security and address climate change at the same time. Experts at a recent Asian Development Bank event discussed what should be done to expand such practices and bring greater benefits to more people. Read blog one and two.

 

    
    
    

 

Publications

What are ‘Integrated Landscape Approaches’ and how effectively have they been implemented in the tropics: a systematic map protocol

Landscapes of Social Inclusion: Inclusive Value-Chain Collaboration Through the Lenses of Food Sovereignty and Landscape Governance

Forests, Trees, and Micronutrient-Rich Food Consumption in Indonesia

Integrated landscape approaches to managing social and environmental issues in the tropics: learning from the past to guide the future

A guide to the identification and importance of custodian farmers

  

Presentations

The Restoration Agenda: Some Practical Issues

Agrarian change in tropical forests: A change for the better?

Policy networks on climate change and ecosystem services in Peru and Brazil

Wildlife: a forgotten and threatened resource

Community forestry and forest stewardship

Videos

Communities in Vietnam conserving forest ecosystems and and benefiting from them

Prunus africana: A reality check

FTA event coverage: Highlights from the 2016 Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit

Developing livelihoods for farmers in Northwest Vietnam

Douglas Sheil – Do forests attract rain?

 

 

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Focus on climate change adaptation and mitigation

Welcome to the fourth 2016 newsletter from the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA). This issue focuses on climate change adaptation and mitigation, and you can read about paying for REDD+, emissions from Indonesia’s forest fires, a land-use sector with growing tree cover and the large-scale drivers of deforestation. We also look back at a major event supported by FTA - the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case. And keep an eye out for the FTA Annual Report 2015, which will launch shortly and be sent to all subscribers by email.

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The missing link in carbon accounting
ICRAF

 

As the area of tropical forests continues to decline, a remarkable change is happening: Tree cover on agricultural land is increasing across the globe. And that cover captures nearly 0.75 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide every year, a new study under FTA suggest.
The results provide insights into the patterns of this tremendous change at global, regional and national scales and suggests a large mitigation potential in this land sector that should be explored more systematically.

Why is it so difficult to tackle large-scale drivers of deforestation?
CIFOR

 

While countries are developing their own approaches to REDD+, the challenges they face remain largely the same. This is the conclusion from a REDD+ knowledge-sharing event in Addis Ababa. Scientists working under FTA heard that even countries who were ahead of the game in launching REDD+ are lagging when it comes to implementation. Will this give latecomers the chance to catch up? Read more here.

FTA scientists measure emissions from Indonesia’s 2015 fires

CIFOR

 

For the first time, researchers have quantified the greenhouse gas emissions from fires in Sumatra, Kalimantan and Papua. The team measured ground-level smoke from burning peat, and satellites provided data on the heat output being radiated by the fires as well as information on the amount of carbon monoxide present in the surrounding atmosphere. Read about their groundbreaking results here.

Profits, plates and plots
ICRAF

 

Smallholder farmers participating in a payments for ecosystem services (PES) scheme in Cidanau Watershed, Indonesia have more diverse diets than those who didn’t participate. A recent study by the World Agroforestry Centre under FTA explains what changed, and what other benefits were seen.

A reality check on who is footing the bill for REDD+
CIFOR

 

Assumptions about who is actually paying to reduce emissions from deforestation have been wrong, a new study under FTA suggests. Many REDD+ initiatives expected that the costs would be covered by incoming funds from the international community. They also thought that REDD+ would generate a surplus that could be equitably shared between different stakeholders. If only. Find out here who will pay and why that is not a good thing.

Funky name, useful tool: 5Capitals-G piloted in three countries
Bioversity International/ICRAF

 

A new tool to assess poverty in a gender-responsive way is set to prove its value in a pilot phase starting mid-2016 in India, Peru and Guatemala. The name 5Capitals-G might raise eyebrows, but scientists working under the CGIAR FTA are convinced of its use. Read more here.

REDD+ and the SDGs: making the case for integrated monitoring
CIFOR

 

In a new book, FTA scientists make the case for integrated monitoring of the effects of REDD+. Although the approach has a strong focus on carbon sequestration, it might be just as important to understand the other outcomes – such as impact on livelihoods and biodiversity. If one wants to ensure that the program is viable in the long term, that is. Read more here.

FTA event coverage: Connecting funds to farms and forests
FTA

 

The Global Landscapes Forum has become the key event under the CGIAR FTA. Special attention is given to questions of how to leverage private finance for sustainable landscapes, forests and agroforestry. The Investment Case event in London in June again brought together important investors to connect funds to farms and forests, to harness finance for smallholders and to use financial technology for a more transparent world.

Seven countries overlook perfect solution to climate change
CIFOR

 

Asian countries are overlooking how the private sector can help them reach national climate goals, CIFOR’s Steve Lawry warned in an article on the occasion of the Bonn climate meeting in May. He based his perspective on a recent report on seven countries’ Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, a key element of climate change mitigation. Read his analysis here.

CIRAD and Bioversity International present their Annual Reports for 2015
 

CIRAD/Bioversity International

 

Two key members of the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA), Bioversity International and the French CIRAD, have just released their Annual Reports for 2015. Read more here and here.

Building trust to smartly invest in trees in the Philippines: A visit to the Tala-andig tribe
ICRAF

 

Researchers and development workers aim to benefit local communities, but how should scientists and indigenous people work together? Four experts from the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) met with members of the Tala-andig tribe in Indonesia to discuss solutions. Read here what they discovered.

 

    
    
    

 

Publications

REDD+, transformational change and the promise of performance-based payments: a qualitative comparative analysis

A match made in Paris: Adaptation-mitigation synergies in the land sector

Equity, REDD+ and Benefit Sharing in Social Forestry

Missing the forest for the trees?: Navigating the trade-offs between mitigation and adaptation under REDD

Multilevel governance challenges in transitioning towards a national approach for REDD+: evidence from 23 subnational REDD+ initiatives

Drivers of climate risk in African agriculture

More holistic approaches to agriculture needed: An analysis of party submissions to SBSTA 44 on adaptation and agriculture
 

Videos

REDD+ Benefit-sharing Knowledge Tree

Communities in Vietnam conserving forest ecosystems and and benefiting from them

Rules, games and carbon: Exploring rights and REDD+ benefits

Engaging the private sector in long-term solutions to end Indonesia’s forest fires and haze

 

Presentations

Lessons for equitable REDD+ benefit sharing from community forestry practices in Indonesia and Nepal

REDD+ research

Equity and REDD+: Perspectives from CIFOR’s global comparative study

Benefits, burdens and solutions to Indonesian Peatland Fires

Policy networks on climate change and ecosystem services in Peru and Brazil

 

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FTA Newsletter Issue #3 2016 – Focus on global governance, trade and investment

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Focus on global governance, trade and investment

Welcome to the third Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) newsletter of 2016, with a focus on global governance, trade and investment. This newsletter comes just after the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case in London, where FTA flagship coordinator Pablo Pacheco promoted the theme of smallholder finance in the tropics. In this issue, we highlight topics such as sugarcane in Indonesia, agricultural investments in Mozambique and fair trade cocoa in Ghana. CIAT’s Director General Ruben Echeverria reflects on a successful FTA project: Terra-i. And, we will take a look at how agroforestry is making an impact on smallholders' lives.

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Making farms sustainable and climate-smart with agroforestry
ICRAF

 

For smart farmers, there is more than one way to benefit from agroforestry. This is the clear takeaway from the Smart Tree-Invest project, which forms part of the CGIAR Research Program on FTA. It shows the effects of very different interventions from co-investment to special forms of climate-smart agriculture. Find out more here.

Measure and manage: Terra-i taken to the next level
CIAT

 

The rainforest-monitoring platform Terra-i is one of the key achievements of the CGIAR Research Program on FTA. Terra-i is now on the verge of being extended to the forests of Southeast Asia and Africa. CIAT’s Director General Ruben Echeverria explains what this means.

The Investment Case for smallholders’ access to finance
CIFOR

 

It is well-known that it is hard for small farmers to gain access to financing. What is less know is that scientists under the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry are working on solutions to include smallholders in sustainable agricultural production and commodity trade. Pablo Pacheco leads the research in that area and hosted a discussion at the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case in London on 6 June. Read his blog and the White Paper on the event.

The sugar or the trees
CIFOR

 

Yet another commodity is poised to increase the pressure on Indonesia’s tropical forests, a new study suggests. While much of the attention globally is focused on oil palm as a driver of deforestation, Indonesia has plans to massively expand its sugarcane plantations. Read here what this means and how the consequences for local populations and the environment could be mitigated.

Researchers are leaving Sulawesi, agroforestry lingers on
ICRAF

 

After four years, the FTA project Agroforestry and Forestry in Sulawesi: Linking knowledge to action (AgFor) is coming to an end. So what has changed for farmers in the meantime? What will stay the same? And why are researchers optimistic? Find out here.

Ghana wants bigger slice of the fair chocolate cake
ICRAF/BIOVERSITY INTERNATIONAL

 

Ghana’s share of the fair trade cocoa market is growing, but will the business be sustainable? In a just-completed baseline study, scientists with the CGIAR Research Program on FTA looked at the potential for fair trade cocoa in Ghana. Their data shows that there are still hurdles along the way.

Agroforests changing landscapes in Vietnam
ICRAF

 

Five years ago, scientists under the CGIAR Research Program on FTA started an experiment. At that time, Vietnam’s Son La province was rife with land degradation and poverty. Now, the project has changed landscapes and lives.
 

Overcoming land grab prejudices
CIFOR

 

Large agricultural investments in many African countries are often equated with land grabbing from richer economies. A recent study under the CGIAR Research Program on FTA in Mozambique suggests that this is not automatically the case. Many of the large investments in agriculture are made by local and regional businesses, and the food produced lands in the domestic market. Read more about the findings here.

When will sustainable oil palm become the norm?
CIFOR

 

Oil palm is one of the biggest commodities traded worldwide and a key research theme of the CGIAR Research Program on FTA. And, concerns about unsustainable palm oil production have been growing. A recent study suggests that sustainability in the sector hinges to a large extent on smallholders.

Land rights and livelihoods: It’s complicated
CIFOR

 

It sounds logical: provide farmers with secure tenure and their lives will improve. But a study under the CGIAR Research Program on FTA suggests that this is not necessarily so.

 

Spreading the word on better land-use planning for Indonesia’s commodities
CIFOR

 

With better coordination and collaboration within the government, Indonesia could improve its commodity usage. This is one conclusion from a recent workshop under the CGIAR Research Program on FTA. Researchers and government representatives wanted to know how land-use planning and resource management in Indonesia could be improved at the landscape level. The outcomes from the discussion were interesting for both sides.

Videos
 

Finding long-term solutions for degraded peat land

  

Making timber certification work for local markets


 

    
    
    

 

Publications

Taking the Bitter with the Sweet: Sugarcane’s Return as a Driver of Tropical Deforestation

Beyond Timber: forest management models for transforming conflict into cooperation

Agricultural investments in Mozambique: An analysis of investment trends, business models and social and environmental conduct

The impact of land property rights interventions on investment and agricultural productivity in developing countries: a systematic review

Green growth rhetoric versus reality: Insights from Indonesia

Presentations

Public and private actions for shifting towards sustainable production of beef and palm oil

Avoiding deforestation and forest degradation under a new climate agreement: The evolution of REDD+ and implications for international forest policy

REDD+ research

Modeling future deforestation and the impact on biodiversity in the Congo Basin

Presentation on the Landscapes Portal

Action on zero deforestation pledges: The challenge of aligning public and private sustainability goals

 

Videos

Beef in Brazil: Steps toward sustainability

CIAT Annual Report 2015-2016 – Sustainable Food Futures: Getting the Fundamentals Right

How to feed a hotter world

Production and protection: Business initiative for sustainable landscapes

 

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FTA Newsletter May 2016 – Focus on Gender

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Dear friends and colleagues,

Welcome to the seventh edition of the FTA Gender Integration Team Newsletter: Focus on Gender.
This newsletter is meant to serve as a mechanism for knowledge sharing, especially on good practices and lessons learned. We are counting on your knowledge, information and experiences. Please feel free to share with us any gender and forests related resources, tools or information you may have. Your comments and feedback on the newsletter are welcome and encouraged. To get in touch, please email Ana Maria Paez Valencia.

Warm regards,
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Thoughts on Gender

Material galore: FTA scientists working on a second book on Gender and Forests

By Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Senior Associate, Center for International Forestry Research

In a recent blog for the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry my colleague Patti Petesch wrote about the adverse impacts of oil palm on Dayak women in Kalimantan, Indonesia, based on results from a multi-national, quantitative study. In the book, Gender and Forests: Climate Change, Tenure, Value Chains, and Emerging Issues, this same issue is addressed, with scientists looking at conditions within one of these communities in the past, and in the present, using a holistic and qualitative approach. Read more

Featured Project & Researcher

Project: Gender sensitive climate-smart practices for coffee agroforestry in Nicaragua

For a description of the project, click here. 

Researcher: Tatiana Gumucio, Gender Postdoctoral Fellow, International Center for Tropical Agriculture CIAT

Tatiana Gumucio. Photo: CCAFS
“To identify interventions for climate change mitigation and adaptation we have to look critically to the management of trees and tree resources for entry points…” 

To read the full interview with Tatiana, click here. 

Focus on Gender Research

This is a brief update on selected gender-related research that is ongoing within the CGIAR research programme on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA). 

Gender and Uganda’s informal timber value chain. A project looking to provide recommendations, not only to mitigate adverse gendered impacts, but also to suggest policy options for a more gender-inclusive value chain  Read more

For a list of all of CIFOR’s gender-related projects, click here.

ICRAF-Latin America is helping in the development of the Gender and Climate Change Action Plan for Peru

For details, click here.

5Capitals-G – Piloting a gender-responsive methodology for assessing the poverty impacts of value chain development
For more information, click here.

The Sustainable Amazonian Landscapes project integrates a gender perspective to understand men’s and women’s ecosystem services uses and related decision-making roles in Yurimaguas, Peru, and Caquetá, Colombia. For details, click here.

News & Highlights

Four social and natural scientists who used participatory methods to conduct their research in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, India and Malaysia, reflect on key challenges and benefits of participatory research. 
 

Revealing Farmers Knowledge Through Research

 
BRIDGING GENDER THEORY AND PRACTICE IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 
Reflections on how far gender scholarship has evolved, and how to further broaden its application
 

Photo: Jeremy Weate

 
FINALIZATION OF ASSETS’ FIELDWORK ACTIVITIES IN THE AMAZON 
Almost two years of field work in the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon documenting the relations between ecosystem services, food security and the nutritional health of local communities living in the forest-agriculture interface
 

Photo: World Agroforestry Centre/Carol Colfer

 
DIVERSITY WINS: WHY INVOLVING WOMEN IN DECISION-MAKING MATTERS 
If you give women a voice in the management of forests and fisheries, you get better outcomes for both people and nature
 

Neil Palmer/IWMI

 
POWER IN BALANCE: ENCOURAGING NEWS ABOUT GENDER FROM SOUTHERN SULAWESI 
Researchers in Sulawesi, Indonesia are sounding a rare note of optimism in the usually dreary accounting of gender relations
 

Photo: World Agroforestry Centre/Carol Colfer

 

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Publications

 
Gender and Forests: Climate Change, Tenure, Value Chains and Emerging Issues   The work of gender and forestry specialists from various backgrounds and fields of research and action to analyse global gender conditions as related to forests. To see more info on this enlightening book, click here.

Book Aid International made Gender and Forests book of the month!

 
Is There a Choice? Choice Experiment to Determine the Value Men and Women Place on Cacao Agroforests in Coastal Ecuador
To download the article, click here.

 
Are the major imperatives of food security missing in ecosystem services research? To download the article, click here.

 
Does the gender composition of forest and fishery management groups affect resource governance and conservation outcomes? A systematic map. To download the article, click here.

 
Stepping it up for gender equality: Bioversity International gender and social inclusion strategy. To access the new gender strategy, click here.

 
Policy Brief: Gender in Forestry and REDD+ in Indonesia. To read the brief,  click here.

Tools & Resources

 

National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic/K.Musuraliev
Click here to visit Bioversity International’s new webpage on participatory research

 
Practical tips for communicating research findings in a gender-responsive way  To see the tips, click here. 

You can also listen to the podcast where the authors talk about this new tool

All gender-related tools and manuals published by CIFOR are available here.

The Global Gender and Climate Alliance also has a collection of tools and resources, which you can access here. 

Event reports

From 20-24 April 2016, a training on 5Capitals-G – a gender-responsive tool for assessing the poverty impacts of value chain development – brought together researchers from Bioversity International and partners working on gender-equitable value chain development in different parts of India. For details, click here.

                        

This newsletter is a product of the collaboration between the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bioversity International, and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) as part of the Research Program on Forest, Trees and Agroforestry of the CGIAR.

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FTA Newsletter #2 Issue 2016 – Focus on Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Assessment

08 April, 2016

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Welcome to the second newsletter of 2016 from the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA). The focus this time is the crucial issue of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment. The full proposal for Phase II of FTA was just submitted to the CGIAR, and the team and I are very pleased with the result. You can view it here.
As there is no rest for the wicked, we will be diving head on into sustainable forest and landscape financing with the next big FTA-supported event, Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case, coming up in June. Look out for updates.
Also, International Day of Forests was an opportunity for ICRAF and CIFOR to discuss the state of the world’s forests, and we want to pique your interest with some very special FTA publications. Finally, we have made some improvements to the FTA website that you can check out here. Your feedback and suggestions are always welcome.

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PHASE II

New proposal widens range of FTA research and strengthens collaboration
FTA

After months of hard work, the proposal for the next phase of FTA research is ready to be approved. Building on the solid foundation of the past five years, in the next five, research on forests, trees and agroforestry will be even more relevant for the Sustainable Development Goals and the CGIAR Strategic Framework. With the Phase II proposal, FTA is breaking new ground scientifically to achieve a balance between development and environmental sustainability. The proposal can be viewed here.

IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Caught in a good loop – how to assess the usefulness of research
FTA

Daniel Suryadarma makes sure that researchers learn – especially from mistakes. He has been in charge of the Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Assessment (MELIA) section of the FTA from the start, and has a lot to share. Before leaving his position at the end of March, Daniel gave us his take on impact assessments and the FTA Theory of Change.

IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Outcomes of FTA research on REDD+
FTA

The biggest impact assessment so far has yielded proof that FTA research does indeed make an impact on national policies. The adoption of REDD+, for example, is made easier for countries using a step-wise approach, designed by FTA researchers, that takes into consideration different capacity levels. In Peru, FTA research empowered sub-national initiatives for tropical forest conservation to better understand the implications of REDD+. Informing REDD+ policy: an assessment of CIFOR’s Global Comparative Study is currently being updated.

BEST READS

Soils, governance, big data and 99 tropical countries: Best reads in forests, trees and agroforestry
FTA

In our last newsletter, we asked you to send us your favourite publications on forests, trees and agroforestry. The call has yielded a very broad selection of FTA papers, ranging from soils to forest governance and climate-smart landscapes. See here which publications have inspired FTA scientists.

NEW LOOK

FTA website revamped
FTA

On your next visit to foreststreesagroforestry.org you will notice that we have improved the look of the website. One new feature is a section to accommodate Partner News, dedicated to research that is not necessarily related to FTA. And, we are producing a lot more original content. See for yourself here.

PROTECTING BIODIVERSITY

Urgent need to preserve wild crops in genebanks
CIAT

Many of the wild plants that will be the building blocks of the future for the global food supply are missing from the world’s genebanks, according to new research by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). Read here what this means for researchers. CIAT was pleased that the findings were picked up by Science magazine.

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF FORESTS

“Valuing the ultimate generational gift”: Holmgren and Simons on forests, trees and agroforestry
FTA

An ideal moment to look at the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry was International Day of Forests on March 21. And the heads of two key FTA research institutions, CIFOR and ICRAF, warn that we should not take trees for granted. Peter Holmgren of CIFOR and Tony Simons of ICRAF also reflect on the state of the world’s forests and financing for sustainable landscapes.

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF FORESTS

Challenges to managing tropical forests
CIRAD

The International Day of Forests was also an opportunity to look at “tropical managed forests”, a topic CIRAD scientist Plinio Sist specializes in. He brought together experts to discuss challenges such as FSC certification in Brazil and forest concessions 2.0. Watch their discussion here.

WIN-WIN

Producing bioenergy with agroforestry
ICRAF

Bioenergy will be one of the research areas of the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry in its next phase. Bioenergy has been a focus of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) for quite a while, and ICRAF recently agreed to collaborate with the Indonesian government on bioenergy. We asked ICRAF’s Director General Tony Simons what this means for the island nation.

EVENTS

Taking investments in sustainable landscapes to the next level
FTA

With the high-profile “Investment Case” event, the organizers of the Global Landscapes Forum aim to take financing of sustainable landscapes to the next level. Research on forests, trees and agroforestry plays a key role here. Taking place in London on 6 June, the event connects those with funds to those who have the ideas and/or the power. Check out the new event website or express your interest here.

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT

How scientists can make their work count
ICRAF

It is a question that all scientists face, all the time: How do we make our work count? There are ways, says ICRAF’s Amy Cruz, and she offers a few pointers. Her main point – only if stakeholders are empowered will research help them make informed decisions and share their learning from projects with others. Read her tips here.

    
    
   

Publications

Bioversity International’s gender research fellowship programme: results and ways forward

Relationships between population density, fine-scale genetic structure, mating system and pollen dispersal in a timber tree from African rainforest

Conflict in protected areas: who says co-management does not work?

REDD+ and climate smart agriculture in landscapes: A case study in Vietnam using companion modelling

Women and men in tropical dry forests: a preliminary review

CIFOR Strategy 2016-2025: Stepping up to the new climate and development agenda

ICRAF Annual Report 2014-2015: Trees, Landscapes, Climate, Food

Practical tips for communicating research findings in a gender-responsive way

Forest and land-use governance in a decentralized Indonesia: A legal and policy review

Presentations

Forests, Trees and Agroforestry – an overview

Governance, rights and the role of politics in REDD+ equity discourses

Why managing and restoring tropical forests matter

Videos

Thai farmer prefers fruit trees over rubber

Rules, games and carbon: Exploring rights and REDD+ benefits

New restoration commitments under Initiative 20×20

Once, there was a lake – Pecha Kucha-Style Night – GLF 2015

 

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Focus on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry in 2016

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2016 is crucial for the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry. After many achievements during the first four years of the program, we now are reaching a turning point. Our thousands of publications have been downloaded more than 1.5 million times, and hundreds of researchers have been guided and trained. We now need to capitalize on everything we built – our team, a collaborative spirit, management tools and strong partnerships – and embark on our second phase from 2017 to 2022. We will continue our emphasis on gender integration in all stages of our research, supporting open-access to publications and updating our data platforms and interactive portals. And, we are looking for new partners.
 
FTA research will again be well represented at key events, as it was at the recent Asia Pacific Forestry Week. In June, an FTA-driven event, the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case, will engage partners, policy makers and the private sector in determining science-based solutions to the earth’s biggest challenges. Read here what else our five flagships have planned for this year.

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NEW HORIZONS

What 2016 holds in store for forests, trees and agroforestry in 2016
FTA

This year means big changes for the FTA. The impact assessment for the entire research program will be released, and following that the FTA will move into a new phase of research to be finalized in March. But before all that, we asked our coordinators what else this year holds in store for research on forests, trees and agroforestry. Here are their answers.

 

GOOD READS

Best FTA publications of 2015
FTA

You don’t have to share what is sitting on your bedside table, but do send us a list of your five favorite publications related to forests, trees and agroforestry research in 2015. Based on your submissions, we will compile a list of the best reads for the FTA website as well as hold a drawing. The scientist whose name is selected will then have the opportunity to present his/her research in a video. Find out more here.

SOFT TALK

Revealing local knowledge through research
Bioversity International

Young scientists with Bioversity International wanted to find out how rural communities manage natural resources under different conditions. They used participatory, gender-sensitive methods and worked creatively around the challenges they faced. In this video, they discuss their experiences.

REACHING OUT

Will you research with me?
FTA

Understanding the roles that trees play in landscapes is at the heart of the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry. And, even after five productive years, this work is far from over and we are looking for reinforcements. At Asia-Pacific Forestry Week 2016, FTA scientists called for more partners to join them so that knowledge can be shared more effectively and have a bigger impact.

SHARING STORIES

Tell us all about it: research impacting people’s lives
FTA

The FTA’s assessment year is a fitting time to look at impacts on the ground. Throughout the year, we will be focusing on success stories. Where has your research made a difference? Has your research influenced policy, changed someone’s practice or impacted livelihoods and lives? Alert us to potential stories at cgiarforestsandtrees@cgiar.org and we will publicize them as part of the FTA’s knowledge-sharing efforts.

 

GOOD NEWS

Progress for women in forestry
FTA

Gender experts shared their experiences improving gender balance in the forestry sector at last year’s World Forestry Congress in Durban. What worked? What didn’t? Where did it work and where did it not? Find out more here.

 

NEW STRATEGY

CIFOR aligns work with SDGs and climate goals
CIFOR

With its new 2016-2025 strategy, CIFOR is stepping up to the new climate and development agendas. All CIFOR research will support the new development paradigm, tackling climate change while reducing poverty, protecting local livelihoods, rights and tenure, and enhancing ecosystem services. With CIFOR as the lead in the FTA, this will impact research on forests, trees and agroforestry.
 

 

ANNUAL REPORT

Trees, Landscapes, Climate, Food
ICRAF

It couldn’t be clearer than Trees, Landscapes, Climate, Food – the title of the World Agroforestry Centre’s 2014-15 Annual Report. With ICRAF’s strong role in the FTA, this report says much about FTA research. Highlights include sustainable land management, the importance of public-private partnerships and the role of agroforestry for food security.

ZERO DEFORESTATION

Pledges, politics and palm oil
CIFOR

Zero deforestation pledges are easy to declare, but implementation is complicated. Pablo Pacheco, coordinator of the FTA Flagship on Global Governance, Trade and Investment, takes an in-depth look at the palm oil sector in Indonesia and the obstacles to sustainable production.

EVENTS

Agro + forestry = SDGs
ICRAF

Agroforestry can contribute to all the Sustainable Development Goals, says Meine van Noordwijk, coordinator of the FTA Landscapes Flagship. At Asia-Pacific Forestry Week last February 2016, he made his case in front of practitioners and policy makers. Read here how they reacted.

 

EVENTS

Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case
FTA

With more than 3,200 stakeholders from forestry, agriculture, water, energy, law and finance, the third Global Landscapes Forum in Paris broke its own record from 2014. The Forum’s organizers are gearing up for their next big FTA-driven event in London on 6 June, the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case that aims to take investments in sustainable landscapes to the next level.

 

SUPPORTING SMALLHOLDERS

Action research to improve forest, tree products in Indonesia
ICRAF

How can forestry and agroforestry management practices be improved so that smallholders move towards integrated management and production of timber and non-timber forest products? This question is at the heart of an action research program in three Indonesian provinces that holds the potential to improve smallholder livelihoods.

 

    
    
    

 

Publications

Dynamics of Land Use/Cover Change and Carbon Emission in Buol District, Indonesia

Agroforestry and Forestry in Sulawesi series: Evaluation of the Agroforestry Farmer Field Schools on agroforestry management in South and Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia

Gender and Climate Change: evidence and experience

Forest land restoration enhances food security in Sahelian landscapes

Zero-deforestation commitments in Indonesia: Governance challenges

Low-emission development strategies (LEDS): How can REDD+ contribute?

Avoiding failure in forest restoration: the importance of genetically diverse and site-matched germplasm

 

Presentations

Governance, rights and the role of politics in REDD+ equity discourses

Strengthening women’s land rights for land restoration

Agroforestry for sustainable wood energy

Climate change and land rights of Indigenous peoples

Mapping a full cycle of swidden cultivation in the mountains of Myanmar and Laos

 

Videos

FTA Director: “Science shows you what can be done”

Tenure Talks Indonesia: Christine Wulandari

Highlights video from the 2015 GLF: ‘A Collection of Connections’

Thai farmer describes his mixed rubber garden’s origins and benefits

Community-based forest management in Indonesia

Land-use problems and agroforestry solutions in Thailand

Contact Us

cgiarforestsandtrees@cgiar.org

CGIAR Research Program – Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA)

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