Join AFR100 partners from October 26-29, 2019 for the 2019 Annual Partnership meeting. Held back-to-back with the GLF Accra on October 29-30, the meeting will convene AFR100’s diverse stakeholders.
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Event Category: Partner Event
Carbon Forestry Course
www.waldbau.uni-freiburg.de/news_events/carb_forestry
In cooperation with renowned partner organizations active in the land-use sector, such as UNIQUE Forestry and Land Use and Solidaridad, the Chair of Silviculture at Freiburg University offers this 3-week online course in Carbon Forestry. Highlights of the course include ecological, social, economic & technical aspects of carbon forestry in theory and practice. The course is taught by experienced academics, project developers and auditors, and offers technical basics of developing and evaluating climate change mitigation projects, analysis and validation of project design documents of different types of land-use based carbon projects (REDD, Afforestation/Reforestation, Smart Climate Agriculture, Improved Forest Management etc.). Furthermore, by using a local case study, participants will measure biomass on a local afforestation site or at home and quantify the carbon contents in the lab.
Additionally, participants are trained in established methodologies of specific standards, esp. Afforestation/Reforestation projects, such as under the CDM, Verra/VCS or Gold Standard. The course fee is 750€ (partial scholarships available).
For more information please follow the link or send an email to: carbon.forestry@waldbau.uni-freiburg.de.
Array ( [0] => )Securing Rights in Landscapes
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Geography of Governance 2019: Visioning Probable Futures for Landscape Governance
Let’s talk about our changing landscapes. Government agencies, civil society organizations, academic institutions, and youth organizations from Sierra Madre, Palawan, and Bukidnon-Misamis Oriental will come together for the 2nd National Environmental Dialogue on August 1-2, at Novotel, Quezon City.
This year’s dialogue strategy includes visioning exercises where participants will draw from their experiences and aspirations to plan for the futures of our landscapes. Participants will talk about drivers of change and threats to our landscapes, and envision what can still be done to adapt, and to prepare for generations ahead. Specifically, the dialogues will focus on natural resource management and devolution; water provisioning functions of landscapes; and land conversion.
Sustainable and Inclusive Landscape Governance (SILG) Philippines is a program implemented by Forest Foundation Philippines, together with Tropenbos International and several civil society organizations. SILG PH banks on opportunities that can emerge out of continuous dialogues, which can span from small intervention projects to policy reviews and advocacies.
Array ( [0] => )Training Workshop on Mainstreaming Integrated Landscape Governance Curriculum in Bhutan
Organizer: Department of Research and External Relations, Office of the Vice Chancellor, Thimphu, Bhutan
Background
The landscape governance is an innovative approach in the sustainable management of ecosystem goods and services to improve the livelihoods of the landscapes’ inhabitants, while enhancing ecological integrity, economic development and socio-cultural resilience in an integrated manner.
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu and Centre for Development Innovations (CDI), Wageningen University have coordinated several regional consultations with ICIMOD’s 8 member countries to define and understand the capabilities which landscape professionals need to have in order to facilitate participatory landscape governance on the ground.
Together with the Royal University of Bhutan these capabiities have been turned into a draft curriculum at BSc level, and will therefore be the first university in the Hindu Kush Himalaya Region to have a formal curriculum on Landscape Governance, with the aim to deliver a new generation of integrated landscape professionals, practitioners and poilcy makers, leading to long term improvement of NRM and spatial planning within Bhutan’s future.
Why Landscape Governance in Bhutan and why now?
Bhutan’s new Five Year Development Plan sets out new elements of greater inclusivity in development planning by engaging all stakeholders and building a national consensus to ensure that every stakeholder can identify him or herself with the Plan, and commit to its outcomes. Coordination, Consolidation and Collaboration have been identified as fundamental principles underpinning the goals, strategies and programmes of the plan, and cut across all the sectors and development actors in the country. Introducing the concept of Landscape Governance and having it mainstreamed in its education system will therefore be very helpful in the operationalisatioon of the new Five Year Development Plan, and will provide a good framework for spatial policy integration at the national scale.
Moreover, the concept of Landscape Governance fits in Bhutan’s national policy framework of Gross National Happiness, and may contribute to its operationalisation at the landscape level.
The role of the Royal University of Bhutan
The Royal University of Bhutan is the premier institution in Bhutan that is tasked to foster centres of excellence in teaching, research and innovation, and community service that are recognized internationally. Specific to natural resources, RUB institutions are responsible to:
- Contribute to science and knowledge by conducting research and policy analyses in relevant problem areas;
- Mainstream scientific research findings into environmental policy and decision-making processes, and
- Train current and future generation of conservation and environmental leaders, practitioners and academics.
The Royal University of Bhutan (RUB) with several on-going initiatives of delivering environmental governance and well-being initiatives is well placed to take the leadership of delivering “Landscape Governance Curriculum” to be implemented by one of its professional colleges specialised in enironmental management. As the RUB is an active member of the Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) which aims to promote inter-university collaborations among HUC members in mainstreaming best-practices throughout the region. The RUB currently holds the honorary title of “The first ICIMOD Mountain Chair”, and is therefore strategically positioned to invest in landscape curriculum development havnig a regional impact.
Indigenous Languages, Knowledge and Rights in the context of climate change adaptation and mitigation, (forest) landscape restoration and sustainable development
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GLF at the World Congress on Agroforestry
From 20-22 May 2019, the 4th World Congress on Agroforestry will be held in Montpellier, France. More than 1,000 delegates and leading keynote speakers will discuss the progress of agroforestry as it relates to climate change, policy, food security and nutrition, sustainable development and more. In partnership with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF), the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) will be reporting on the event. Follow on Landscape News.
Learn more about the event here.
Array ( [0] => )WUYLF – Workshop day ‘Working towards Climate Smart Landscapes’
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The INBAR Garden and ‘Bamboo Eye’ Pavilion at the International Horticultural Exhibition 2019
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GLF at the Central Asia Climate Change Conference
From 2–3 April 2019, the second annual Central Asia Climate Change Conference was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to address challenges due to global warming and shifting conditions in one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to climate change. In partnership with the World Bank, a co-host of the conference, the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) reported on the event to raise awareness on the knowledge and solutions shared during the two days.
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