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8th Annual Meeting on Forests and Livelihoods
Forests & Livelihoods in a New Era of International Commitments: The Promise & Challenge of Implementation
07 - 10 Oct 2022, Rome
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The 8th Annual Meeting on Forests and Livelihoods brings together stakeholders working to advance knowledge at the intersection of forests and livelihoods and enable its application to policy and practice. Join the meeting to gain knowledge around leading-edge research and developments on forests and livelihoods globally.
Team Leader, Climate Change, Energy and Low-carbon Development, CIFOR-ICRAF
Aoife Bennett
9 October
10 October
Plenary roundtable: Forests & Livelihoods in a New Era of International Commitments: The Promise & Challenge of Implementation
Moderator:
Team Leader, Equal Opportunities, Gender Justice & Tenure, CIFOR
Speakers:
President, National Organization of Andean and Amazonian Women of Peru (ONAMIAP)
Mr. Kevin Currey
Program Officer, Natural Resources and Climate Change, Ford Foundation
Global Initiative Lead, Climate and Land Use Alliance (CLUA)
Dr. Truly Santika
Senior Fellow and Lecturer, Agriculture, Health, and Environment Department
University of Greenwich, UK
09:15-10:45 AM (CET)
Track 1 | Session 2: Data & Methods for Understanding and Promoting Forests and Human Wellbeing
Impacts of forest-based climate change mitigation strategies: understanding local perceptions of rural households in two sites of the Peruvian Amazon
Ana Cubas Báez, University of Florida
Forest or oil palm plantation? Interpretation of local responses to the oil palm promises in Kalimantan, Indonesia
Elizabeth Linda Yuliani, CIFOR-ICRAF and Radboud University Nijmegen
Boundary-spanning methodological approaches in moose and forestry governance in Eeyou Istchee
Nathan Badry, McGill University
Protecting carnivores and livestock that share forests, while safe-guarding livelihoods
Adrian Treves, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Moderator: TBD
Track 1 | Session 5 : Biodiversity, Forests and Livelihoods
How much do mangroves contribute to food security and nutrition in Indonesia?
Amy Ickowitz, CIFOR-ICRAF
Understanding the diversity of values underpinning forest conservation
Eberechukwu Ihemezie, University of Leeds
Diverse functions of forest income in households’ livelihoods and their determinants: a pantropical comparison
Azin Sadeghi, Thünen Institute of Forestry and University of Göttingen
Temporary Payments for Ecosystem Services Can ‘Crowd In’ Lab-in-the-field Forest Conservation
Lina Moros, Universidad de los Andes
Moderator: TBD
Track 2 | Session 8: (Forest) Landscape Restoration: People, Trees, Politics
Policy options for just and equitable forest restoration: A synthesis
Forrest Fleischman, University of Minnesota
Smallholder Tree Growers’ Involvement in Tree Planting: Case Study of Sunyani Forest District
Emmanuel Owusu, C. K. Tedam University of technology and applied sciences, Ghana
Incentives to enable transformational change for sustainable land management across the Peruvian Amazon
Valentina Robiglio [Presenting for Javier Montoya-Zumaeta], CIFOR-ICRAF
Long-term community involvement in forest governance predicts improvements in forest canopy cover and livelihoods from tree plantations
Harry Fischer, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Moderator: TBD
Track 3 | Session 13: (Forest) Landscape Restoration: People, Trees, Politics
Brazilian Policy Instruments for Socially Innovative Forest and Landscape Restoration
Aurelio Padovezi, University of Padova
Locally-led Forest Landscape Restoration in Central Malawi: Forms, Patterns, and Governance Challenges
Ida Nadia Djenontin, Penn State University
The politics and fantasies of decentralized forestry: The Modified Taungya System in Ghana
Akwasi Maama, Rescue Missions International
Contributions of plantation forest companies: Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa
Aruna Kainyande, Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products, Technische Universität Dresden
Restoration of Vietnamese Forest Landscapes through the lens of different stakeholders
Chi Bui, University of Helsinki
Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions in the implementation of sustainable land management practices at the forest-farm interface in Peru
Valentina Robiglio [presenting for Ricardo Vargas]), CIFOR-ICRAF
Dimensions of Transformation: Individual, Community and Political Changes in the Brazilian Amazon
Gabriela Russo Lopes, CEDLA/University of Amsterdam
Moderator: TBD
Track 3 | Session 14: Biodiversity, Forests and Livelihoods
Adapting productive projects to local contexts to ensure sustainable positive impact on forests and livelihoods
Léna Prouchet, University of Exeter
Implication of over exploitation of African Rosewood (Pterocarpus erinaceus) on rural livelihoods in Ghana
Michael Ansong, Kwame Nkrumah, University of Science and Technology
The Multiple Facets of Crop Booms: A typology of actor participation in land governance
O. Ravaka Andriamiahaja, Centre for Development and Environment, Switzerland
The spatial and functional fit of zero-deforestation governance mechanisms in the Indonesian palm oil sector
Adelina Chandra, Environmental Policy Lab, ETH Zurich
Co-producing theory of change to operationalize integrated landscape approaches
James Reed, CIFOR-ICRAF
The loss of tropical forest fauna and traditional ecological knowledge – its relevance for the SDGs and forest conservation
Torsten Krause Lund, University Centre for Sustainability Studies
Forest politics and rural livelihoods in Cameroon: Convivial conservation as a way-out?
Dylis Ndi, University of Buea
Revisiting forest management policies to increase conservation and sustainability of livelihoods for forest dependent rural households in Zambia
Lackson Chama, School of Natural Resources, Copperbelt University
Moderator: TBD
Track 3 | Session 15: Data & Methods for Understanding and Promoting Forests and Human Wellbeing
Restoring our future: Lessons from flagship restoration projects around the world
Sarah Wilson, School of Environment, University of Victoria
A species-specific approach for tracing Brazilian timber origins and associated illegality risks across the supply-chain
Caroline Sarorato Silva França, Chalmers University of Technology
An Ecological-Economic Approach to Assess Impacts of the Expansion of Eucalyptus Plantations in Agroforest Landscapes of Northern Ethiopia
Dagm Abate, University of Gondar
Forest Proximate People In Poverty
Mohammad Farrae, University of Notre Dame
Contribution of Mangroves to Food Security and Nutrition of Women in fisher-households in Java, Indonesia
Mulia Nurhasan, CIFOR-ICRAF
Shedding lights on forestry-related informal employment and its determinants
Rattiya Lippe, Thuenen Institute of Forestry
When the tourists stop coming: Livelihood contributions from tourism and resilience during the pandemic in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve
Hannah Legatzke, University of Minnesota
Moderator: TBD
Track 3 | Session 16: Forests, Security and Social Differentiation in a World in Flux
More Than a Safety Net: Ethiopia’s flagship public works program increases tree cover
Andrew Simons, Fordham University
Food Security in the Amazon: A Look at the Food Security and Nutrition of the Asháninka Peoples Living Inside a Protected Area
Winy Vasquez, University of British Columbia
How does rural in-migration affect forest clearing and smallholder land use in tropical forest frontiers? Evidence from the Zambian Miombo woodlands
Eliza Zhunusova Thünen, Institute of Forestry
Collaborative everyday adaptation to deal with peatland fires: Case study in the east coast of Sumatra, Indonesia
Rijal Ramdani, University of Eastern Finland
How women forest owners can unpack embedded barriers for a transition to sustainable forestry
Ingrid Stjernquist, Dept of Physical Geography
Fighting from the Margins: Locating Pastoral Communities on the Contours of Forest Rights Act (2006) In India
Aayushi Malhotra, BITS-PILANI
Seeing the Forest Landscape for the Trees: Carbon Sequestration and Tree Planting
Mette Olwig, Roskilde University
How Payment for Forest Environmental Services and its benefit sharing mechanism can better enhance gender equity in Vietnam?
Pham Thu Thuy, CIFOR-ICRAF