List of new IPSI members - Satoyama · Nepal with following specific objectives: 1. Contribute in...

List of new IPSI members

As the Steering Committee decides IPSI membership (Articles 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 5.2), new members listed below

(in alphabetical order) will need to be approved by the Committee.

*(Country name) indicates the location of headquarters of the organisations.

1. Amrit Campus, Tribhuvan University (Nepal)

2. Centre for Resource and Forestry Policy Study (CFNRPS), Renmin University of China (China)

3. College of Life and Environmental Science, Minzu University of China (China)

4. Culture Identity and Resources Use Management , CIRUM (Vietnam)

5. Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, Chad (Chad)

6. Earthwatch Institute-Japan, EWJP (Japan)

7. Faculty of Science, University of Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

8. Friends of the Earth Japan, FoE Japan (Japan)

9. Fukui Prefectural Government (Japan)

10. Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo (Japan)

11. Institute for Global Environmental Institute, IGES (Japan)

12. International Agency for the Protection of Biocultural Landscapes and for a New Rurality,

AGER (Italy)

13. International Tropical Timber Organization, ITTO (Japan)

14. Italian Ministry for Agriculture Food and Forestry Policies (Italy)

15. Kathmandu Forestry College, KAFCOL (Nepal)

16. M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) (India)

17. Ministry of Forestry and Environment, Gambia (Gambia)

18. National Dong-Hwa University (Taiwan, Province of China)

19. National Research Centre for the Studies of the Ethnic Groups of China’s South-Western Borderlands

(SEGCSWB), Yunnan University (China)

20. NGO Circle for Conservation of Natural Resources, ONG CeSaReN (Benin)

21. NPO Cultivate a Cloud (Japan)

22. Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, SPREP (Samoa)

23. Vietnam National University, Hanoi, VNU (Vietnam)

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*Cluster 1: Knowledge Facilitation

Cluster 2: Policy Research

Cluster 3: Indicators Research

Cluster 4: Capacity Building Cluster 5: On the Ground Activities

1.

Name of organisation: Amrit Campus, Tribhuvan University

Country: Nepal

IPSI contact person: Dr. Mohan Prasad Devkota (Associate Professor, Department of Botany)

Type of organisation: Academic, Educational and / or Research Institute

Scope of activities: National

Activities in which the organisation would like to contribute*: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Objectives of the organisation:

The overall objective is to produce skilled manpower in the field of science and technology for the overall

development of the country and contribute to protect, conserve and manage the mountainous environment of

Nepal with following specific objectives:

1. Contribute in biodiversity conservation by securing maximum benefits from diverse ecosystem

services,

2. Contribute in the improvement of rural livelihood by sustainable utilization of mountainous habitats,

and

3. Innovation of new technologies by blending modern methods with traditional knowledge.

Description of the organisation’s activities relevant to socio-ecological production landscapes:

As mentioned in the above objectives of the organization, development of Nepal and its rural communities in

impossible to imagine the socio-economic development of its rural communities without sustainable

utilization and management of country’s resources. Therefore, keeping this in mind research activities will

be more focused towards the improvement of rural livelihood by wise and sustainable use of the

mountainous habitats without altering the natural settings of the environment. Priorities will be also given for

the cultivation of various NTFPs available in various regions of the country as an alternate to improve

livelihoods. Traditional knowledge that has been transferred from generations is very important indigenous

knowledge for the utilization of natural resources. Therefore, such knowledge will be incorporated in all our

activities to design better techniques/methodologies which are socially acceptable, economically viable and

environmentally friendly, as well. Realising all these facts our organization is more concerned in improving

the rural livelihood by socio-ecologically feasible methods in all our future activities.


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2.

Name of organisation: Centre for Resource and Forestry Policy Study (CFNRPS), Renmin University of

China

Country: China

IPSI contact person: Prof. Jinlong Liu (Director, Professor, Centre for Forestry and natural Resource Policy,

School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University of China)





The Centre of Forestry and Policy Study in Renmin University of China is dedicated to promoting

multidisciplinary study of forest policy and culture in the context of China’s market reform and social

change. Its research focused on resource tenure arrangements, interest mechanisms, community

organizations and rules as well as traditional knowledge and culture. The Centre is committed to take the

lead in promoting policy research on public resources such as forests, wetlands and grasslands. It also

endeavors to become an active member of the international researcher community to promote intellectual

exchange between China and the outside world.


So far, we have been working in the following areas:

- Firstly, we have been collecting and collating information on traditional ecological knowledge and

culture of ethnic minorities such as Yi, Miao, Tibetan and Mongolian.

- Secondly, we have been studying the impact of China’s Collective Forestry Tenure Reform and its

related policies on local communities.

- Thirdly, we have been studying the protection of environment and biodiversity as well as other

related subjects to research the multifunction of forests.

- Finally, as to research the management of forest, wetland, and grassland, we have introduced the

theory of community trial to support the research.


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3.

Name of organisation: College of Life and Environmental Science, Minzu University of China (CLES)

Country: China

IPSI contact person: Prof. Dayuan Xue (Director/ Senior Researcher)

Type of organisation: Non-governmental or civil society organisation

Scope of activities: Global

Activities in which the organisation would like to contribute*: 1


The aim of CIERP is to collect, analysis, synthesis and compare case-studies in biological diversity

conservation, traditional knowledge, ecological degradation, restoration, assessment and planning in ethnic

areas in China; and to distill lessons learned for dissemination through a searchable online database and other

means, and for use in capacity-building activities for protection and sustainable utilization in environmental,

ecological and social resources in ethnic areas in China and others global areas.


We have conducted 35 case studies relevant to socio-ecological production landscapes, these researches can

be classified into following five types: Sustainable development models in degraded arid grassland landscape,

mountain forest landscape, desert-sandy landscape, wetland-plain landscape, and urban-suburban-agriculture

ecotone landscape. We have made summaries on these sustainable landscape utilization models and

disseminate those experiences and lessons through various kinds of workshop, searchable online database

and other means.


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4

.Name of organisation: Culture Identity and Resources Use Management (CIRUM)

Country: Vietnam

IPSI contact person: Ms. Tran Thi Hoa (Director)

Type of organisation: Indigenous or local community organisations

Scope of activities: Local

Activities in which the organisation would like to contribute*: 2, 4, 5


CIRUM, an independent local NGO, has worked with 19 different ethnic minorities over the last 10 years in

mountainous provinces in Vietnam. CIRUM follows the human ecology philosophy – that balance between

people and nature is necessary for sustainable development. CIRUM is concerned with fundamental human

rights, and especially focuses on land rights which is critical for ethnic minority livelihood security.

CIRUM envisages to create an inter-face between stakeholders in land issues by bringing ethnic minority

people together with decision makers, in order to facilitate exchange and confrontation between local

realities and top down policies.


CIRUM has a head office in Hanoi and two field offices in Lang Son Province (North-East Vietnam).

CIRUM’s strategic orientation to deal with the above mentioned issues is:

- Selecting key conflicts cases which reflect the contradictions created by overlapping and bureaucratic

policies on rights to lands and daily livelihood security of ethnic minority people.

- Action research for the above cases with specific evidences, then applying the action research into policy

analysis for lobbying.

- Negotiating, dialogue and lobby at local level for adequate policy implementation. Especially the programs

on reallocating land and forest from state enterprise or companies to local people.

- Analyse evidences, then to develop further theoretical research for writing and publishing towards civil

society development framework.

CIRUM is also focused towards sustainable livelihood security and biodiversity protection for and from

indigenous communities.

1. Building up demonstration model: Community herbal medicinal forests conservation area where our local

healers can practice their own local knowledge and forest biodiversity protection.

2. Recovering by regenerating and developing customary law based community forest management.

3. Permaculture model which is relating agriculture-forestry and livestock raising.

4. Herbal medicinal plants networking.

5. Women forest + young forest + healers forest + sacred forests where women, youth, village elders groups

can practice their initiatives for forest protection and management, and also benefit-sharing.


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5.

Name of organisation: Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, Chad

Country: Chad

IPSI contact person: Gademi Habib (National Focal Point /CBD/CHAD)

Type of organisation: National or Local governmental organisation




Created after Rio Meeting of biodiversity and had the mission:

- To elaborate the National Plan of Environment and Sustainable Development and Framework policies

about biodiversity;

- To coordinate the activities about complementation CBD;

- To develop questions about national level and capacity building areas biodiversity. The Department

localised the National Focal Point CBD, CITES/Focal Point, RAMSAR/Focal P and CMS/FP;

- To elaborate the national level and Framework about Protected Areas


- To elaborate and Managing Sustainable Development and good practical use in environment;

- Capacity Building around the three Rio Conventions and Synergies;

- Communication, Education, Peoples’ Awareness

- Synergies between Environment and Sustainable Use and Development

- Elaborate National Level Environment and Sustainable Use and Development;

- Managing the three Rio Conventions;

- Elaborate and publication News, National Level Environment and Sustainable Use Development, etc.


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6.

Name of organisation: Earthwatch Institute – Japan EWJP

Country: Japan

IPSI contact person: Mr. Shigeo Yasuda (Executive Director)





Earthwatch Institute Japan engages people in scientific field research in Japan as well as overseas to promote

the understanding and action necessary for a sustainable environment.


In Japan, EWJP is running 10 local programs and encourage people to participate in those programs and help

the scientists who lead them.

The objective of all those programs are to collect scientific data base to establish science-based plan or

measures to conserve endangered species or protect indigenous habitat which houses rich biodiversity, like

Satoyama.

Those local programs include survey of indigenous fresh water turtles in rivers in Chiba, survey of Japanese

dormouse in Yamanashi, research of forest animals in Yamanashi and research of seagulls in tideland Tokyo

Bay.

By joining those programs, people get hands-on experience of scientific research procedure as well as real

understanding of importance of conserving indigenous habitats and biodiversity.

Among our local programs followings are especially close to Satoyama habitat conservation.

1. Ecological survey of endangered butterflies in Satoyama habitat at the foot of Mt. Fuji: At the foot of

Mount Fuji, scientists are leading an Earthwatch project in the study of butterflies, principally Reverdin’s

blue butterfly, as environmental indicators of the health of Satoyama habitat. The long-term goal of this

project is to conserve the whole Mount Fuji Satoyama.

2. Ecological research of engendered frog in sustainable rice paddies near Lake Biwako: Takashima

city near Kyoto is famous for its farmers’ effort for a sustainable agriculture. Volunteers help scientists

assess the status of threatened frog species (Rana prosa brevipoda). This particular species is considered to

be an important key species or an environmental indicator of the ecological healthiness of rice paddies which

form important part of Satoyama in the region.


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7.

Name of organisation: Faculty of Science, University of Sarajevo

Country: Bosnia-Herzegovina

IPSI contact person: Prof. Senka Barudanovic (Associate Professor)



Activities in which the organisation would like to contribute*: 1, 4


Faculty of Science educates young people in the field of Biology, Geography, Chemistry, Physics and

Mathematics. Faculty is an institution with a long tradition of training students in these areas. Today it

consists of five departments that have developed a number of courses. Also, the Faculty has developed

organizational units in the form of centers that are engaged in research and projects in certain areas. One of

the centers is the Center for Ecology and Natural Resources, in Department of Biology. The Center is

primarily engaged in projects dealing with an evaluation of natural resources in the establishment of

protected areas.


During 2007-2008, Center for Ecology and Natural Resources in cooperation with the NGO EKO BiH has

implemented the project Evaluation of the biodiversity’s state in ecosystems of karst fields on the territory of

Federation B & H, as a contribution to topic programs of the Convention on Biodiversity. According to

Targets 2010th, the project explored the traditional knowledge and practices which are still used in order to

gain economic profit. Since it is rural area with extensive agricultural production, still it is known as an area

of production traditional cheeses of highest quality, prepared according to old recipes. The project

highlighted the benefits of such practices.


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8.

Name of organisation: Friends of the Earth Japan (FoE Japan)

Country: Japan

IPSI contact person: Mr. Junichi Mishiba (Forest project coordinator)





FoE Japan is an international NGO which deals with environmental problems at the global level. As a

member of Friends of the Earth International, we have worked in Japan since 1980. FoE Japan tackles

problems such as global warming, deforestation, waste, and development aid to the developing countries.

Our ultimate goal is the creation of a world in which all people may live peacefully and equitably.


Our activity area is the Utugi Forest in Hachioji city, Tokyo where is located in West Tokyo and just close to

residential area. The area is 5.2 (ha) and a conservation area designated by the Tokyo local government. It is

mainly covered with broad-leaf trees such as Konara (Quercus serrata) and Kunugi (Quercus acutissima) as

well as planted cedar and cypress, fruit trees and grass fields. It is very rich bio-diversity area.

The aim of our activity is to re-build new relations between people and forest located in / near cities where

people live. people remember and re-consider the importance of forests while maintaining the degraded

forest and will find new function of the forest in their daily life at the same time.

In practice, we organize monthly regular activity as well as a series educational seminars for searching for

insects, edible plants, cooking, and checking the health of trees and promotional events such as realization of

the forest nursery "Utsugikko." Those events broaden the utilization options of Satoyama and attract more

participants, who are at the center of forest management and utilization.


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9.

Name of organisation: Fukui Prefectural Government

Country: Japan

IPSI contact person: Mr. Hiroyuki Katayama (Group Manager)





With a focus on development of residents welfare as a base, the role of the local government is to implement

a proactive and comprehensive administration.


Socio-Ecological Production Landscape General Outline

As a local public organization,

1) Conserve and Restore Biodiversity Under the Fukui Nature Restoration Project

Create a general guidebook for biodiversity conservation and restoration

operations, and conduct site surveys and technical training for ecological

restoration groups under the instruction of the guidebook’s writers and editors

2) Designate 30 Satochi-Satoyama as Model Project Sites

Identify 30 sites that are home to endangered species of flora and fauna

Select 2 from among the 30 sites as models, offering support for local

participation, planning, and management of activities relevant to biodiversity

conservation and restoration in these areas

Using knowledge and techniques gained from model sites, expand program to an additional 10

sites

Conclude an agreement defining these operations and activities between

the Prefectural Government, local governing bodies, and local organizations

while continuing to support and pursue conservation and restoration work

3) Restoration of Feeding/Resting Grounds for Oriental White Storks

Issue communiqués to farmers and environmental organizations with

regards to ecologically friendly farming methods

Offer monetary aid for the execution of activities relevant to nature

restoration projects

Entrust project’s operations to 15 organizations within the prefecture

4) Release of Oriental White Storks/Preparation and Maintenance of Feeding Areas

Create artificial feeding ponds for storks

Maintain additional wetlands and fallow fields to house frogs and loaches,

which will serve as food for the storks, as well as stocking the area with this

food source


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5) Offer Monetary Aid for the Preservation of Local Species and Removal of Alien Species

Secure donations from the Prefectural Government, private companies and

other organizations to fund operations


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10.

Name of organisation: Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Country: Japan

IPSI contact person: Prof. Toshiya Okuro (Associate professor)


Scope of activities: Regional



Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo (GSALS) consists of 12

departments and 8 affiliated institutions and covers the wide fields of research that constitute the

fundamentals for developing the agricultural and life sciences in the 21st century. GSALS aims to develop

sustainable global management schemes that value ecosystem mechanisms and allow human society and

nature to live in harmony. Based on an understanding of the mechanisms and existing problems of focal

ecosystems, GSALS aim to both integrate agricultural and life science-related academic achievements and

develop related principles and techniques, while educating skilled personnel.


With respect to socio-ecological production landscape, the Department of Ecosystem Studies (DES) has been

conducting the researches and education in biological conservation and ecosystem management in various

ecosystems raging from forest to coastal environments.

Since 2008, DES has been carrying out Japan-Asia Satoyama Education Initiative (JASEI), a master course

education program integrating lecture, field practice and practical training, funded through the ‘Project to

Develop Higher Education Environmental Leadership Training Programs’ of the Environmental Leadership

Initiatives for Asian Sustainability (ELIAS), the Ministry of Environment. JASEI aims to cultivate

international environmental leaders capable of communitcating the ‘Satoyama Model’ as a new societal

model to Asia and the rest of the world by finding ways to restructure and revive the nature-views common

throughout Asia in the contemporary society, and at the same time, deepening the understanding of the

traditional utilization and management system of local resources typified by ‘satoyama’ through field

practice and international exchange.


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11.

Name of organisation: Institute for Global Environmental Institute (IGES)

Country: Japan

IPSI contact person: Mr. Hiroshi Nishimiya (Vice Programme managing Director)





With utilizing cooperative relations with a broad range of stakeholders, IGES intends to create strategies to

achieve sustainable development as well as to contribute to effective policy formulation based on the needs

of the Asia-Pacific region. Through involvement international/regional policy initiatives and networking

activities, IGES contributes to policy formulation through information dissemination and policy

recommendations based on research outcomes. Not only participating in major international conferences,

IGES holds International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific annually to share the latest research

results internationally, and promotes discussions among stakeholders for new policy recommendations.


IGES undertakes a wide range of research works and operational activities related to community based

ecosystem management and livelihood improvement in the context of sustainable development particularly

in Asia and the Pacific.

Policy research works and operational activities encompass from a wide range of network activities such as

the Asia-Pacific Forum for Environment and Development (APFED), the Economics for Ecosystem Services

and Biodiversity (TEEB), Adaptation Network to name a few.

Under the APFED Showcase Programme, a number of field projects have been supported for instance,

wildlife and natural resource conservation in Tharparkar indigenous community in Pakistan, livelihood

improvement in protected forest areas in Minglanila, Cebu and Philippines, and alternative livelihood

development in Gobi and Mongolia. These projects are intended to support sustainable natural resource

management and alternative livelihood improvement by strengthening social capacity and exploring

measures for facilitating policy and institutional transformation.

In the context of adaptation climate change, several projects have been supported and case studies have been

conducted in Bangladesh that utilise floating vegetable gardens and increasing livestock productivities.

Community empowerment has been also promoted in water abundant areas such as Bogor and water stressed

areas particularly in the dry season in Bogor, Indonesia.

IGES hopes to provide useful lessons, findings and recommendations arising from these projects and case

studies to support the effort to promote integrated ecosystem management and livelihood improvement in the

framework for the IPSI.


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12.

Name of organisation: International Agency for the Protection of Biocultural Landscapes and for a New

Rurality (AGER)

Country: Italy

IPSI contact person: Dr. Lucio Graziano (Consultant)





AGER is an organization of experts in landscape and agri-environmental sectors, whose aim is to identify

and promote biocultural landscapes at an international level. (We have originally used the term “biocultural

landscape” before knowing about Satoyama Initiative, but the concept we focus on is the same that

underlines the term “socio-ecological production landscape”. So, we will use both these words as synonyms

in the following text.)


In Italy and in many other countries in Europe, socio-ecological production landscapes are largely residual.

Today, tracks of socio-ecological production landscapes only persist in still cultivated marginal areas, often

corresponding to biodiversity hot spots and they represent the demonstration and the memory of a symbiotic

and sustainable traditional way of inhabiting and exploiting the land.

Although now there is a slowly increasing eco-touristic economy around these rural areas, these landscapes

are often few enhanced and are constantly under threat by pressing urbanization, industrial activities and

repeated attempts to transpose the dominant agricultural landscapes to promote them, in order to prevent

rural abandonment of the people who still maintain the tracks of these landscapes, by creating new spatial

development models, inspired to the traditional ones that have produced the biocultural landscapes

themselves, thus promoting active conservation of landscape elements and of the memory and avoiding the

“museum’ protection model.

AGER is aware that also a cultural challenge is needed to get these goals, consequently its activity is

addressed to: geographic identification of socio-ecological production landscapes; public boards’ support for

land protection planning; research on alternative rural development strategies; organization of public events

to raise visibility of farmers of the biocultural landscapes; training on the concept of biocultural landscape.


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13.

Name of organisation: International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)

Country:

IPSI contact person: Mr. John Leigh (Officer, Division of Reforestation and Forest Management)

Type of organisation: United Nations or other Intergovernmental organisation




ITTO's objectives, as set out in the ITTA, 1994, are:

a. To provide an effective framework for consultation, international cooperation and policy

development among all members with regard to all relevant aspects of the world timber economy;

b. To provide a forum for consultation to promote non-discriminatory timber trade practices;

c. To contribute to the process of sustainable development;

d. To enhance the capacity of members to implement a strategy for achieving exports of tropical timber

and timber products from sustainably managed sources by the Year 2000;

e. To promote the expansion and diversification of international trade in tropical timber from

sustainable sources by improving the structural conditions in international markets, by taking into account,

on the one hand, a long-term increase in consumption and continuity of supplies, and, on the other, prices

which reflect the costs of sustainable forest management and which are remunerative and equitable for

members, and the improvement of market access;

f. To promote and support research and development with a view to improving forest management and

efficiency of wood utilization as well as increasing the capacity to conserve and enhance other forest values

in timber producing tropical forests;

g. To develop and contribute towards mechanisms for the provision of new and additional financial

resources and expertise needed to enhance the capacity of producing members to attain the objectives of this

Agreement;

h. To improve market intelligence with a view to ensuring greater transparency in the international

timber market, including the gathering, compilation, and dissemination of trade related data, including data

related to species being traded;

i. To promote increased and further processing of tropical timber from sustainable sources in

producing member countries with a view to promoting their industrialization and thereby increasing their

employment opportunities and export earnings;

j. To encourage members to support and develop industrial tropical timber reforestation and forest

management activities as well as rehabilitation of degraded forest land, with due regard for the interests of

local communities dependent on forest resources;

k. To improve marketing and distribution of tropical timber exports from sustainably managed sources;

l. To encourage members to develop national policies aimed at sustainable utilization and conservation

of timer producing forests and their genetic resources and at maintaining the ecological balance in the

regions concerned, in the context of tropical timber trade;


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m. To promote the access to, and transfer of, technologies and technical cooperation to implement the

objectives of this Agreement, including on concessional and preferential terms and conditions, as mutually

agreed; and

n. To encourage information-sharing on the international timber market.


Tropical forests play a vital role in sustaining a large proportion of the world’s biodiversity, maintaining

land-use options and water resources, contributing to the carbon cycle and providing other key services to

forest-dependent people. The ITTA, 2006, commits ITTO to promoting a ‘better understanding of the

contribution of … environmental services to the sustainable management of tropical forests with the aim of

enhancing the capacity of members to develop strategies to strengthen such contributions in the context of

sustainable forest management…’.

Tropical forests provide an important service by protecting watersheds that supply forestdwelling and urban

communities with high-quality water. Some ITTO member countries have developed payment schemes for

environmental services related to watershed management, which could inform similar initiatives in other

tropical countries. Tropical forests are also of enormous importance for the conservation of biodiversity.

They contain more species than other biomes and a high proportion of these species are threatened. Services

such as these and others, including carbon storage and disaster prevention, may be achieved simultaneously

through sustainable forest management.

Deforestation and forest degradation in tropical forests have reduced the quality of many forest

environmental services. Often, poorly implemented timber harvesting has damaged remaining trees and

caused soil erosion and compaction, while the conversion of forests to other land uses has also led to the loss

or degradation of many services. The introduction or strengthening of sustainable forest management, forest

restoration, afforestation and reforestation in such areas can play an important role in restoring

environmental services and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. ITTO has a long

track record of working with member countries and partners to promote such activities through field projects

and capacity-building.

The general objective of the Thematic Programme is to help improve livelihoods by reducing deforestation

and forest degradation and enhancing environmental services through the sustainable management of tropical

forests, forest restoration, afforestation, reforestation and other related activities.


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14.

Name of organisation: ITALIAN Ministry for Agriculture Food and Forestry Policies, UNESCO TASK

FORCE

Country: Italy

IPSI contact person: Prof. Pier Luigi Petrillo (General Director)



Activities in which the organisation would like to contribute*: 1, 2, 3, 4


1) Promote and enhance, in the international context, the traditional and rural landscapes

2) Prepare the nomination forms for traditional agricultural and wine-growing practices for the

UNESCO Intangible Heritage List

3) Analyze the interaction between man and biosphere in the traditional rural landscapes

4) Catalogue cultural landscapes, and the typical, and traditional cultivation techniques


The UNESCO Task Force works in the cabinet of the Ministry of agricultural food and forestry policies of

the Italian Government.

The Task Force analyzes the ways of enhancing, even in the international context (eg UNESCO), the

traditional agricultural landscapes that show a constant interaction between man and biosphere.

For example, the landscape of Prosecco of Conegliano and Valdobbiaddene in Italy, where the various

regulating services. The Task Force UNESCO analyzes cases like this one, and highlights the benefits arising

from the interaction between man and biosphere, stressing the value of components of the ecosystem

services exist: provisioning services, cultural services, supporting agricultural traditions and land

maintenance practices that are handed down from generation to generation.

The Task Force, acting as a support organ to the political authority, is responsible for coordinating the Italian

nominations in the List of Tangible and Intangible World Heritage. Also for this purpose on several

occasions, the Task Force has stressed the need to transform the concept of biodiversity in terms of bio-

cultural diversity.


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15.

Name of organisation: Kathmandu Forestry College (KAFCOL)

Country: Nepal

IPSI contact person: Dr. Bishnu Hari Pandit (Principal)





Objective 1: Produce competent human resources in forestry and natural resources

Objective 2: Engage and promote interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research and outreach program

Objective 3: Establish networks and collaboration with relevant institutions to improve academic excellence

Objective 4: Develop and strengthen institutional capacity

Expected Outcomes:

- Competent and visible research and education institute

- Competent forestry and natural resources professionals produced and engaged

- Contribute in forests and natural resources management leading to economic growth


Expand faculties and staff on environmental science, GIS and ecological production landscapes

Increase space, resources and systems and improve and develop curriculum (GIS and Community Forestry)

Establishment of outreach centers

Identification of priority research needs

Development of a permanent research site in different ecological belts

Increase collaboration with existing forest and environment related institutions in country and abroad

Journal publication in environment and climate change

Identify institutions with similar goals and objectives for possible network

Build network of forestry and NRM professionals at global level

Initiate student exchange program for learning, internship and research (BSc and Masters)

Faculty exchange for teaching, research and visits

Organize workshop, seminar and talk programs periodically on issues of concurrent interest

Faculty and students to participate in the international seminars, conferences etc

Collaboration in research publications, events, workshops, seminars etc

Building Constitution (class rooms, academic and administrative buildings) at Matatirtha HQ

Research nursery at HQ

Identify and acquire field research stations in 3 ecological zones

Develop and enhance research and training capacity

Develop full facility infrastructure


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16.

Name of organisation: M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Community Agrobiodiversity

Centre

Country: India

IPSI contact person: Dr. Nadesapanikkar Anil Kumar (Program Director)





Broadly the area focus is community biodiversity management. This goal is being pursued by undertaking

sustainable science and technology oriented interventions in three Key Areas of Action (i) Conservation of

Community Biodiversity; (ii) Education, Communication & Training in Community Biodiversity, and (iii)

Sustainable Livelihoods and Food Security.

Principal Service line

1. Participatory Demonstrations of sustainable livelihood, food security and conservation methods

2. Field Research in the area of Ethno botany; Ecology; Conservation; and Angiosperm Taxonomy of

high priority plant species

3. Policy Advocacy in the area of sustainable natural/bio-resource management and biodiversity

conservation

4. Capacity building programmes in sustainable agriculture with a focus on local community

development.


The concept of community agro-diversity management was conceived and developed by Prof. M S

Swaminathan as early as 1980s. His vision of integrating generic resource management and sustainable

livelihoods had been evolved into a practical approach for addressing the issue of poverty reduction in gene

rich, but economically poor habitations of India. This approach also helps us efficiently in engaging the local

communities in conservation of many of the threatened plant genetic resources and habitats of peninsular

India. With a ‘community’ approach to conservation of biodiversity and placing the Agro-biodiversity

Centre in Western Ghats – a strategic biodiversity and cultural diversity hot spot.

The Community Biodiversity Team of M S Swaminathan Research Foundation is further divided

based on the 3 Key Result Areas – Conservation (Biodiversity Conservation and Enhancement); Education

(Biodiversity Education, Communication & Training) and Livelihoods (Biodiversity based sustainable

Livelihoods and Food Security).

The Conservation team is involved in conservation and sustainable management of threatened plant

genetic resources of socio-economic and ecological value for the last 10 years. The team has successfully

raised diverse kinds of plants of food and medicinal value and distribution to local community men and

women. Nearly 16,000 seedlings of 80 Rare Endemic Threatened (RET) target species were multiplied by

the team. By this effort, CAbC were able to protect many number of threatened trees and a large number of

other species of rare medicinal plants, woody climbing plants, orchids, and butterfly host events.


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A major strength of CAbC is an aggregate of 12 years of knowledge and experience in pioneering

management community biodiversity and natural resource management.

The organization has quit a good number of experienced staff and advisors whose expertise ranges

from biodiversity make use of this comparative advantage for educating a wide range of stakeholders in the

area of sustainable agriculture and management in and around Wayanad district.

The Community Agro-biodiversity Centre is engaged in providing support to local communities to

sustainably utilize the agro-biodiversity ever since its establishment. The Centre wants to bring extensive

expertise in management of these areas to provide sustainable solutions for livelihood and food security

needs of the poor families. The team focused on improving the knowledge and economic base of the

villagers, particularly women in the area of medicinal plants and water resource management. Over 75000

seedlings of commonly used medicinal plants were distributed to 345 families for cultivation in the last three

years. They focus on improving the livelihood of the economically and socially marginalized communities

through appropriate projects on mushroom, bio-inputs, medicinal plants nurseries and cultivation,

preparation of herbal formulations etc. yielded reasonably good results.


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17.

Name of organisation: Ministry of Forestry and Environment, Gambia

Country: Gambia

IPSI contact person: Mr. Kebba N. Sonko (Acting Permanent Secretary (MOFEN))

Type of organisation: National or local governmental organisation




Meeting the MDGs, PRSPs and Vision 2020 of the Gambia

- Achieve the policy objectives of the institutions under MOFEN, Forestry Policy 2010 – 2019, Biodiversity

2003 NEMA


Participatory forestry management including protected areas not ensure environmental sustainably offers

pollutions etc.

Integrate environment concerns into sector policies and programs including the Rio - conventions.


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18.

Name of organisation: National Dong-Hwa University

Country: Taiwan, province of China

IPSI contact person: Dr. Kuang-Chung Lee (Associate Professor)





Vision: National Dong Hwa University, as a comprehensive university in eastern Taiwan, seeks to sustain

and enhance its excellence as an institution of higher learning through outstand teaching and research aso as

to produce well-rounded graduates with lifelong abilities to provide leadership with the societies they serve.

Mission: National Dong Hwa University strives to offer its students a unique, well-round university

experience that instills in them professional expertise, humanistic concerns, and scientific competence. By

encouraging them to engage in both theoretical and applied research in various academic fields, the

University wishes to provide its students with the academic foundation and creative spark they will need to

advance human knowledge and lead successful careers.


1. Enhance understanding and raise awareness of the importance of socio-ecological production

landscapes through environmental education;

2. Collecting, analyzing, synthesizing and comparing case-studies, and distilling lessons learned for use

in capacity-building activities;

3. Enhancing capacities for maintaining, rebuilding and revitalizing socio-ecological production

landscapes, including through regional capacity-building workshops and support for on-the-ground

projects and activities;

4. Collaborating with and/or strengthening synergies with local community organizations, national and

local governments, and NGOs dealing with socio-ecological production landscapes in the

implementation of their respective activities related to the Initiative.


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19.

Name of organisation: National Research Centre for the Studies of the Ethnic Groups of China’s South-

Western Borderlands (SEGCSWB), Yunnan University

Country: China

IPSI contact person: Mrs. Zhu Min (Communications Officer, SEGCSWB, Yunnan University, China)





The SEGCSWB’s research focuses on the theoretical and practical issues of social and economic evelopment,

survey and consolidation of ethnic and cultural resource, and development of cultural industry in the ethnic

region of southwest China. It aims to promote basic and applied science research that could contribute to

coordinated development of economy, society and the environment. The SEGCSWB is one of 100 Key

National Humanities and Social Science Establishments designated by the Ministry of Education, China. It

aspires to work with other research institutes to preserve the cultural and biological diversity of the socio-

ecological production landscapes in Yunnan and beyond.


The SEGCSWB hosts a group of distinguished scholars engaged in the study of ecological anthropology as

represented by Professor Yin Shaoting. Since the mid-1980s, Prof. Yin has undertaken thorough and

comprehensive investigation and research on slash-and-burn agriculture of ethnic minorities in southwest

China and Southeast Asia. His major publications include books entitled "A Controversial Cultural Eco-

system", "History of Slash and Burn in Yunnan ", "Man and Forests - Slash and Burn in the Perspective of

Ecological Anthropology" and "Yunnan Hata Burning - Human Ecology Studies", which have won him

many awards and accolades from home and abroad. He has also published several other influential papers

such as “Ecology Research on Slash and Burn of Jinuo Ethnic Group”, “National Habitats - from the Jinsha

River to the Red River” and “History of the Ecological Environment of Anthropology”. Since the 1990s,

Prof. Yin Shaoting has chaired the Ford Foundation funded project called "Cultural and Ecological Village ".

This project selected six ethnic villages in Yunnan Province as the experimental sites to promote the

inheritance and protection of local traditional knowledge. In 2008, he published a series of books on

“Cultural and Ecological Village - the Development of Contemporary Applied Anthropology”. Besides Prof.

Yin, Prof. He Ming and Associate Prof. Liao Guoqiang are also prolific in the field of ecological

anthropology. They have completed a project funded by the National Social Science Fund of China on

"Chinese Ethnic Culture Ecological Research" and published a book with the same title in 2005. Over the

past few years, SEGCSWB has published two more books on ecological anthropology entitled "China's

Culture and Environment"(Volume 1) and “People and Rice Field：Studies of Traditional Livelihoods of

Dong Ethnic Group in Huang Gang Liping of Guizhou Province” (by Prof. Cui Haiyang).

SEGCSWB is committed to training talented students of Ecological Anthropology, and has set up both

doctoral and master's programs. So far, 55 doctoral and over 400 master students have graduated from the

programs. In the meanwhile, SEGCSWB has launched several projects such as “Preserving National Culture


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in the Village Classroom” in eight ethnic minorities’ villages, and “Construction and Protection of

Ecological Environment along the Dali –Lijiang Highway”, in an effort to promote the protection and

inheritance of traditional ecological knowledge.

SEGCSWB endeavours to promote academic collaboration and exchange in the field of ecological

anthropology. For example, it has set up a "Culture and Environment Network" to maintain contact with

other research institutions and scholars in China. In 2009, a cooperation agreement was signed between the

SEGCSWB and the United Nations University – Institute for Sustainability and Peace (UNU-ISP), and an

international workshop on “Biological and Cultural Diversity for Sustainable Mountain Development" was

held in the following year.

With years of experience and expertise in promoting greater understanding and conservation of socio-

ecological production landscapes, we sincerely look forward to becoming a member of the IPSI. Thank you

for your kind consideration!


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20.

Name of organisation: NGO Circle for Conservation of Natural Resources / Cercle pour la Sauvegarde

des Ressources Naturelles (ONG CeSaReN)

Country: Benin

IPSI contact person: Mr. Mensah Bienvenu Celestin Bossou (President of NGO CeSaReN (Specialist in

natural resources management))

Type of organisation: Non-governmental or civic society organisation


Activities in which the organisation would like to contribute*: 1, 2, 3, 4


The Global objective of ONG CeSaReN is to conserve natural resources for sustainable development

ONG CeSaReN aims at three specific objectives

1. Restore and manage degraded ecosystems

2. Promote the development of sustainable alternative income generating activities to increase the rural

populations livelihood

3. Improve the technical and organizational capacities of communities


Support to participatory forest management activities of five forests in Benin

Sensitization and communication for behavior change

Promotion of privates and communities afforestation and reforestation

Preservation of animal and plants endangered species

Promotion of endogen practices et knowledge that preserve ecosystems services

Promotion of forests and natural resources governance

Awareness on climate change impacts on agriculture, adaptation and mitigation

Promotion of Non Timber Forest Productions and neglected crop

Promotion of lands management and agricultural best practices

1. Building up demonstration model: Community herbal medicinal forests conservation area where our local

healers can practice their own local knowledge and forest biodiversity protection.

2. Recovering by regenerating and developing customary law based community forest management.

3. Permaculture model which is relating agriculture-forestry and livestock raising.

4. Herbal medicinal plants networking.

5. Women forest + young forest + healers forest + sacred forests where women, youth, village elders groups

can practice their initiatives for forest protection and management, and also benefit-sharing.


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21.

Name of organisation: NPO Cultivate a Cloud

Country: Japan

IPSI contact person: Mr. Sugano Tomoyuki (Project manager)





We are aiming at revitalizing forest of Tenryu district in Hamamatsu city. We group for a society that is in

consistency with the economy and ecology, and the symbiosis of the nature and our life.

Our objective is to restore ecosystem of the farming village nearby the forest of socio-forestry, to induce

people live in those village area to put the ecological lifestyle with independent economy into action, and to

build an ecological and sustainable local society.


We have started off with reforestation of 4 ha area which was clear-cut in last year, in the village of

Shibukawa, a part of northward of Hamamatsu city. Our aim of this reforestation is to enrich bio-diversity of

this area. Most of this area is covered with man-made forest, aged about 50 years old and more. These man-

made forest was abandoned those economic timber use because of international price competition. So the

most of these man-made forests are not taken care of for many years, that the ecosystem had become

monocultural and people’s living circumstances was dark.

We are going to introduce native tree plant to this forest, and more, we aim to produce funding for

continuation of this richer forest, which will lead a modern style of the traditional culture and ecological

lifestyle.

We also aim to produce some more action for a modern style of the traditional farm and village culture, e.g.

making charcoal from native wood, harvesting grass leaves for compost etc.

We are going to produce a new system of funding for continuation of these “satoyama culture’, it might be a

kind of membership fund from urban corporation or citizens.

We will daringly propose ideas and try them ourselves with regional Shibukawa village people and people of

Hamamatsu city.


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22.

Name of organisation: Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

Country:

IPSI contact person: Mr. Stuart Chape (Programme Manager, Island Ecosystems)

Type of organisation: United Nations or other Intergovernmental organisation




The purposes of SPREP are to promote co-operation in the Pacific region and to provide assistance in order

to protect and improve its environment and to ensure sustainable development for present and future

generations.


1. Marine Protected Areas – socio-economic analysis, conservation priority setting. Locally marine

management areas (LMMAs) supported.

2. Wetlands – protection and sustainable use of freshwater systems and resources (sea/reef component

included.)

3. Protecting natural (food gathering, spiritual values, etc) and agro-ecosystems from invasive

4. Support to Pacific Island Countries under the UNCCD – land degradation issues.


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23.

Name of organisation: Vietnam National University, Hanoi - VNU

Country: Vietnam

IPSI contact person: Dr. Van Thang Hoang (Ecologist, Director – CRES - VNU)





To develop into the country’s leading comprehensive, most prestigious training and research centre of

excellence, gradually achieving international standards;

To play a key and leading role in renovating the country’s higher education system;

To serve as a focal point for international scientific, educational and cultural exchanges of the whole country.


To develop and synthesize documents and reports on socio-ecological production landscape;

To develop and apply models on co-management and community-based conservation management;

To conduct research and survey on ecosystem services, natural resources conservation and wise use;

To develop and consult policies and strategies on natural resources and sustainable development;

To build capacity for the country and region at different levels and stakeholders;

To support different levels of organizations and localities in relevant issues.

To link different fields, disciplinary and stakeholders in climate change mitigation, adaptation and

environmental planning, land use planning and sustainable development, as well as landscape restoration.

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