FTA @ XXV IUFRO
World Congress

Forest Research and Cooperation for Sustainable Development

Curitiba, Brazil, 29 Sep – 5 Oct 2019

About
the event

The air you breathe, the water you drink, the food you eat, they all depend on the world’s forests.

You may not aware of it, but forests and trees provide a wide range of benefits to people, both in rural communities and urban centers worldwide. The benefits span from environmental, social and even cultural aspects. Thus, the conservation and sustainable management of forests and trees are closely linked to globally important societal challenges.

FTA will take part at the XXV IUFRO World Congress in Curitiba, Brazil, to present our latest work related to a range of topics addressed in the congress, including environmental protection, sustainable economic development, food security, health, water and energy resource provision, and climate change.

Find more details on IUFRO World Congress on http://iufro2019.com/.

Agenda

Mon, 30 Sep 2019

15:30 - 17:30

R12 - Wing 2

Committed and held accountable? Exploring accountability relations of state, business and civil society organisations in multi-level forest governance

In recent times, states and business have made major commitments related to forests to move away from unsustainable business-as-usual pathways. Yet, so far rhetoric still dominates: large scale international investments in tropical deforestation continue, EU bioeconomy strategies seem to be at odds with climate goals and measurable outcomes in terms of avoided emissions are lacking, signaling problems with current governance responses and ineffectiveness of voluntary commitments. Arguably, success in achieving such commitments will depend on robust accountability structures. It is assumed that a number of enabling conditions can enhance transparency and lead to desired transformational change away from unsustainable business-as-usual practices and their underlying power relations, including: i) new information (e.g. analyses of historical environmental footprints, emission displacement and leakage), made possible by ii) new technologies (e.g. remote sensing), and iii) new coalitions between different members of civil society. This session aims to examine the role of politics and power relations and its effects on accountability structures in forest governance. We call for papers that investigate enabling (and hindering) conditions for accountability in meeting climate and development commitments, and provide lessons for improved forest and land use governance.

Chair
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Prof Maria Brockhaus
Speaker
Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti
CIFOR
12:30 - 13:30

Poster Room - P07

Social issues in Forestry

Chair
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Frank Jensen
Speakers
Nobuhiko Tanaka
Tokai University, Tokyo, Japan
Robert Jandl
Austrian Research Centre for Forests, Vienna, Austria
Mirjana Stevanov
University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Indi Akurugoda
University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka
Gustavo Torres
Universidad de Los Lagos, Osorno, Chile
Daniel Williams
USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, USA
Vitalie Gulca
State Agricultural University of Moldova

Tue, 1 Oct 2019

08:30 - 10:30

R04 - WING 3

Achieving REDD+: From local actions to national commitments

Considerable efforts have been made by developing countries to develop approaches that achieve emission reductions and access results-based finance at local, jurisdictional and national scale. This session will showcase pilot studies and research exploring approaches for achieving REDD+, and using results-based finance to incentivise these actions. Papers are invited that explore REDD+ actions, results-based finance or benefit sharing at project, jurisdictional or national level, from actions by local/traditional communities to regional or national policy and regulations, governance, including their impacts; with the aim of generating discussion of the challenges and potential solutions for linkage across these scales.

Chair
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Dr Ellyn Damayanti & Amy Duchelle
Speakers
Amy Duchelle
Team Leader - Climate Change, Energy & Low-Carbon, CIFOR
Carolina Gueiros
PhD student partner
Vivi Selviana
PhD student partner
Adriana Molina Garzon
PhD student partner
Javier Montoya
PhD student partner
08:30 - 10:30

R17 - PG

Improving forest management certification: integrating ecosystem services with forest assessments

Third-party forest management (FM) certification emerged as a tool for assessing and communicating the environmental and social performance of forest operations. 25 years later FM certification is mainstream, supported worldwide by major producers and buyers. Among driving forces for certification are corporate purchasing, green building schemes and “green consumer” demand, backed by social and environmental NGOs. On the one hand evidence for impacts of FM certification is increasingly needed given the growing demand for labelled products. Researchers from various disciplines look into the different aspects of certification, such as impacts on FM and timber markets; effects for forest workers and communities; quality of certification audits; governance and authority of certification schemes; and estimation of consumers’ willingness-to-pay price premiums for certified products. On the other hand, emerging markets for ecosystem services (ES) (carbon credits, water quality and quantity, wetland mitigation, species conservation etc.) presents new opportunities for forest landowners and managers, with increasing recognition of the importance of ES markets and their values. This session will discuss the impacts of sustainable FM, forest products and services through economic, environmental and social perspectives and will also consider challenges, needs and gaps analysis with regards to impact assessments and certification in general. The session will then assess some of these emerging ES markets including processes to increase forestland value.

Chair
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ChairDr Robert Deal
Speakers
Alex Pra
ETIFOR, Padova, Italy
Chadwick D. Oliver
Yale University, New Haven, USA
Mônica de Souza Barbosa
UFAM, Manaus, Brazil
Gillian Petrokofsky
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Richard Yao
Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute)
Robert Deal
USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station, Portland, USA
Lu Wenming
Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
Andrey Ptichnikov
Institute of Geography Russian academy of sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
Claudio Cesar de Almeida Buschinelli
Embrapa Meio Ambiente, Jaguariúna/SP, Brazil
Marcelo Langer
UFPR, Curitiba, Brazil
15:30 - 17:30

R09 - WING 2

Agroforestry for Ecosystem Services

Recent trends in the agriculture sector necessitate farm diversification as an essential strategy for economic competitiveness in a global market. Agroforestry systems offer great promise for the production of biomass for biofuel, specialty and organic crops, pasture-based dairy and beef, among others. Agroforestry also offers strategies for carbon sequestration, soil enrichment, biodiversity conservation, and air and water quality improvement for not only the landowners or farmers, but for society at large. Recent research findings of these ecosystem services provided by agroforestry will be shared in this technical session and follow up subplenary and poster sessions.

Chair
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Prof Shibu Jose
Speaker
Natalia Málaga Durán
CIFOR

Wed, 2 Oct 2019

08:30 - 10:30

R20 – PG

Tropical wetlands, climate, and land-use change: Challenges and opportunities

The goal of this session is to generate a science-policy dialogue and provide credible scientific information for sound decision making related to the role of tropical wetlands in climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies. This session will encompass biophysical, socio-economic and governance facets of wetlands for effective conservation and restoration.

Speakers
Daniel Murdiyarso
Principal Scientist, CIFOR
Kristell Hergoualc'h
Scientist, CIFOR
12:00 - 14:00

Room R9 - Wing 2

Research on forests, trees and agroforestry: What’s next? Which priorities for the future?

FTA side event

Given the incredible amount of new findings presented by thousands of scientists from so many organizations from all over the world gathered in Curitiba (Brazil), What’s next for forestry?

The XXV IUFRO Congress brings together the latest from forest science. It is also inserted in a very dense international agenda: climate week NYC, COP25, heading to 2020 which will be a key year for the Rio Conventions, the start of a key decade for mankind and the planet.

FTA, the world’s largest R4D program in the area of forests, trees and agroforestry, would like to take this opportunity to exchange, with all interested scientists attending the conference, views and perspectives on what needs to be prioritized for future forest research.

The session is open to all interested parties.

Chair
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Vincent Gitz
Speakers
Amy Duchelle
CIFOR
Andrew Miccolis
ICRAF
Pablo Pacheco
WWF/CIFOR
Plinio Sist
CIRAD
Roger Villalobos
CATIE
Li Yanxia
INBAR
12.30 - 13.30

Poster Room-P05

Social aspects of Forestry

Chair
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Dr Peter Edwards
Speaker
Vincent Gitz
Director, CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA)
12:30 - 13:30

Poster Room P26

Innovative utilisation of bamboo and rattan resources

Scientific research on the development of new processing and utilization technology for bamboo and rattan is being conducted increasingly all over the world to ensure the sustainable development of bamboo and rattan resources. The topics of this session will cover bamboo structural timber, bamboo fiber reinforced polymer composites, bamboo structure and properties, bamboo biomass energy, bamboo carbon and vinegar, bamboo preservation and rattan utilization.

Chair
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Prof Changhua Fang
Speakers
Enlong Xia
International centre for bamboo and rattan, Beijing, China
Jinhe Fu
International Bamboo and Rattan Organization, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Huanrong Liu
International center for bamboo and rattan (INBAR)
Xinxin Ma
International centre for bamboo and rattan, beijing, China
Lili Shang
Internation center for bamboo and rattan (INBAR)
Junqi Wu
Internation center for bamboo and rattan (INBAR)
12:00 - 14:00

Forest tenure, sustainability performance and innovative finance: Connecting the dots from a smallholder and governance perspective

World Bank side event

The event, co-organized by the World Bank, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF), will bring together researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the following topics:

  1. Securing Forest Tenure Rights. Why is it relevant for rural development and how is the World Bank helping. Gerardo Segura Warnholtz, The World Bank Group.
  2. Challenges to supporting forest livelihoods development after tenure reform. Peter Cronkleton, CIFOR.
  3. Innovative finance and policy change in support of smallholders, biodiversity and SDGs. Dietmar Stoian, ICRAF.
Chair
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Dr. Chadwick D. Oliver
Speaker
Peter Cronkleton
Senior Scientist, CIFOR
15:30 - 17:30

R20-PG

Governing farm-forest interfaces: Lessons from practice and methodological advances to improve policy

In most countries farms and forests are governed by overlapping policy frameworks. The continuum from farm to forest is often overlooked as a result of the different aims, philosophies and disciplines that inform agricultural and forest policies. This session seeks to understand how and why multiple policy frameworks are often applied over a landscape, producing contradictions, confusion or gaps that affect local management decisions and behaviour, often in unintended ways. This session showcases evidence-based papers providing critical insights from Latin America, Asia and Africa into how this farm-forest interface is governed such that multi-use practices are accommodated, resulting in positive sustainable, people-centered outcomes. These papers introduce a range of methods to study the farm-forest interface, forest policy and governance that aim to strengthen qualitative and quantitative rigor of evidence. At the end of the session, we have time for a moderated discussion. Authors are invited to submit their paper to a special edition on the topic in the International Forestry Review.

Chair
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Dr Verina Ingram
Speakers
Peter Cronkleton
Senior Scientist, CIFOR
Valentina Robiglio
World Agroforestry, Lima, Peru

Fri, 4 Oct 2019

08:30 - 09:30

R06 - WING

Managing industrial plantation forests for multiple objectives

Fast-growing plantation forests are broadly defined as having average growth rates ranging from 10 to in excess of 40 m3/ha/yr, with shorter rotations from less than 6 years to around 35 or 40 years. Establishment of fast growing forests is one of the most effective ways to meet the growing demand for wood. Small in area, they are disproportionately significant for global timber supply. They can decrease the pressure to log natural forests and can help protect natural resources such as water, soil and biodiversity. They have the potential to improve the economic welfare of the communities in which they are sited. At the same time, intensively managed, industrial forest plantations of a single species on a short rotation arouse controversy as to their benefits for the community, the land and the environment. Social and environmental needs are increasingly influencing planning and management methods applied to plantations whose original prime objective was the profitable production of industrial wood. This session addresses the overall question of how to best sustainably manage fast growing, industrial plantation forests in a variety of geographic locations and settings, to enhance ecosystem resilience, and ensure that multiple objectives can be met concurrently.

Chair
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Dr Verena Griess, Dr Hans Grosse Werner, Dr Carola Paul
Speaker
Himlal Baral
Senior Scientist, CIFOR
08:30 - 10:30

R04 - WING 3

The Bioeconomy and Non-Wood Forest Products

The bioeconomy is made up of those parts of the economy that use renewable terrestrial and aquatic biological resources, such as forests, fish, and wildlife, to produce food, building materials, energy, medicine, and other essential items. While nonwood forest products (NWFPs) are essential items in the bioeconomy, there are many gaps in our knowledge: what is the role of NWFPs in promoting larger-scale economic growth including through value addition? Can NWFPs support a transition to green growth? Are NWFP institutions and knowledge integrated into such transitions? To what degree do NWFPs promote sustainable resource use, generate employment, and contribute to poverty alleviation? Should bioeconomic interventions and policies focus on or avoid NWFPs? This collaborative session invites presentations that explore these questions, preferably through empirically-based data.

Chair
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Dr Jim Chamberlain, Prof Carsten Smith-Hall

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11.00 - 12.00

Main Theatre

Plenary: Forests and forest products for a greener future

Chair
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Prof Daniela Kleinschmit
Speaker
Vincent Gitz
Director, CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA)

Sat, 5 Oct 2019

08:30 - 10:30

R04-Wing 3

Sustainable biomass for a greener future

Highly productive management systems required for biomass production may have a strong impact on ecosystems. Consequently, sustainable, locally adapted best-practice management schemes are needed, and the development of forest biomass harvesting guidelines is a promising tool to ensure sustainable production. This session is open to contributions assessing aspects of woody biomass production at different scales (e.g. local-global, national forest inventories), dealing with potential consequences of land-use change on soils (e.g. nutrient depletion, acidification, carbon cycle), water (e.g. pollution, altering catchment water balances) and atmosphere (e.g. climate change mitigation potentials). Interdisciplinary and holistic approaches, as well as abstracts proposing alternative use of forest biomass (gasification, biomass-to-liquid, torrefacation, and pyrolysis) are welcome. We also encourage submission of contributions about policy development in context of sustainable biomass production (e.g. harvesting guidelines).

Chair
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Dr Viktor Bruckman, Dr Florian Kraxner
Speaker
Himlal Baral
Senior Scientist, CIFOR
08:30 - 10:30

R06-WING 3

The role of forests and trees in the nature-based solutions discourse

Recent years have seen the worldwide adoption and rapid proliferation of the ‘nature-based solutions’ concept. This session takes a critical perspective on the current NBS discourse, and focuses on the role of trees, forests and forestry. How are these currently considered in NBS research, policies and implementation? What can be done to ensure that not only ‘high-tech’ and often expensive NBS are prioritised by funders and decision makers? What lessons have we learnt so far about the role of forests and forestry in addressing societal challenges, for example in urban areas? How can we enhance forestry’s role? What is the role of different actors, including IUFRO, in making this happen?The session will include an introductory talk from an expert on NBS & trees/green infrastructure, to set the scene. This will be followed by brief presentations on the mobilisation of forests and trees as NBS, for example from urban forestry, green infrastructure planning, and national environmental programs. Links between NBS and other central concepts, such as ecosystem services, green infrastructure, the green economy and ecosystem-based adaptation will be highlighted.

Chair
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Prof Cecil Konijnendijk
Speaker
Vincent Gitz
Director, CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA)
08:30 - 10:30

R05 - WING 3

Political ecology and integrated landscape approaches: complementarity or unhappy marriage?

Integrated landscape approaches (ILAs) aim to holistically address threats related to forest degradation, loss of environmental services, food security, and climate change, embarking on negotiated outcomes of multi-stakeholder processes around common concern entry points. However, the politics of negotiated landscape governance still remain underexposed. This session aims to explore the interface between political ecology and ILAs both conceptually and empirically, addressing the question: how can political ecological insights into the politics and framing of human-nature interactions, diverging interests, power imbalances and inequalities in resource access and decision-making at landscape level be made functional to the operationalization of ILAs?

Chair
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Dr Mirjam Ros-Tonen
Speaker
Terry Sunderland
CIFOR Senior Associate
11:00 - 12:00

Main Theatre

Plenary: Forests, soil and water interactions

Chair
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Prof Shirong Liu
Speaker
Meine van Noordwijk
World Agroforestry Centre, Bogor, Indonesia
14:00 - 15:00

Main theatre

Subplenary: Political ecology and integrated landscape approaches: complementarity or unhappy marriage?

Integrated landscape approaches (ILAs) aim to holistically address threats related to forest degradation, loss of environmental services, food security, and climate change, embarking on negotiated outcomes of multi-stakeholder processes around common concern entry points. However, the politics of negotiated landscape governance still remain underexposed. This session aims to explore the interface between political ecology and ILAs both conceptually and empirically, addressing the question: how can political ecological insights into the politics and framing of human-nature interactions, diverging interests, power imbalances and inequalities in resource access and decision-making at landscape level be made functional to the operationalization of ILAs?

Chair
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Dr Mirjam Ros-Tonen
Speakers
Terry Sunderland
CIFOR Senior Associate
Jazmin Gonzales Tovar
CIFOR
“Ecological-Economic Zoning” (ZEE) was regulated in Brazil as a territory planning tool aimed to organize the sustainable use of land and natural resources, through multi-stakeholder forums (MSFs) and other participation mechanisms. MSFs have gained global popularity as an innovative institutional reform in the governance of land use and forests. In territorial planning, the idea is to bring together diverse actors to advance “good governance” and “sustainable development” (e.g. Nolte et al. 2017). However, both territorial planning and MSFs constitute a double-edged sword: advancing certain goals, strengthening certain land use rights and benefiting certain actors can come at the expense of others. They can either challenge power asymmetries or merely reproduce them (e.g. Kohlepp 2002). Based on 10 months of research, we comparatively analyze the multi-stakeholder commissions created for the ZEE of Acre and Mato Grosso, two Amazonian Brazilian States with very different characteristics and history. We delve into the influence of the national and regional context, and how power is exerted, distributed and shared between actors. We capture perceptions and collect empirical evidence from q-methodology and differentiated questionnaires. We reveal that land use planning MSFs have better chances to promote equitable power relations when they emerge from – and are nourished by – an historical context that embraces local movements, culture, identity and differences, rather than from technocratic top-down processes. Our ultimate goal is to offer a critical analysis and shed light on how to improve the equity of MSFs in decision-making around land use, forests and local people’s wellbeing.


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