DAAD World Forestry Congress Workshop
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Background
Our next DAAD funded workshop will take place along the World Forestry Congress in Durban and Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Thanks to the funding of DAAD, we are now looking back to a series of very successful student and alumni workshops that bring together DAAD funded international students from our international Master program (TIF) and professionals and alumni from all over the world. For more background information on prior workshops in this series we refer to the Category:DAAD workshops.
For the first time the World Forestry Congress will be hosted in Africa to bring together the global forestry community to review and analyze the key issues and to share ways of addressing them. The policy processes to implement the measures in these conventions on sub-national, national, regional and international level are extremely complex. And that complexity comes, among other factors, from a blend of different sectoral and national interests, from a large number of scientifically not yet entirely resolved issues and a wide range of different biophysical, social, cultural and political conditions all over the world. It is a challenge for academia to educate the future decision makers (who are our students today) in a way that they are enthusiastic about the overall relevance of these processes – but also about the many details that are to be worked on. And it is a challenge to integrate this education into regular curricula because various dimensions need to be covered in a field that is rapidly further developing. On the other hand, these processes offer a unique possibility to illustrate the important – and sometimes somewhat neglected – science-policy interface. The Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology started in 2010 to implement a new format of what we would call “long-term / sustainable national capacity building”. Along the World Forestry Congress we organize the workshop “Bridging the gap between forest information needs and forest inventory capacity –challenges for academia and governments in Africa regarding national forest monitoring and assessment” for master-students and professors from partner universities (alumni of German universities).
Guest lectures
The program for our workshop is divided in two parts. Before we meet on our workshop in South Africa there will be an introductory seminar with guest lectures held at the University of Göttingen. These presentations gave an introduction to the role of International Forestry Policies and the role of National Forest Data and Information. During the lectures more than 80 intersted PRofessors, scietific staff and students participated. We were happy about the high level speakers. PLesae find the presentations for your information below.
Introduction seminar papers (11.06.2015, Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude (ZHG), University od Göttingen, Room 105)
The Seminar will be on Thursday, 11th June 2015 from 9:00 till 12:30 in Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude (ZHG). The seminar is open for public. Download Program
09:00 - 09:45 Operationalizing REDD+ - current challenges and realities from the field
MSc Sophia Carodenuto, Consultant, UNIQUE forestry and land use
Ms Carodenuto works on international forestry and climate policies and its implementation focusing on REDD+ and FLEGT.
09:45 - 10:30 Power and Politics in REDD+
Dr. Maria Brockhaus, Senior Scientist, CIFOR
Dr. Brockhaus is a senior scientist with the CIFOR's Forests and Governance program, focusing mainly on policy and institutional change and policy and social network analysis.
10:30 - 11:00 Coffe break
11:00 - 11:45 Promoting National Forest Inventories in Africa, FAO's lessons learned
Dr. David Morales-Hidalgo, Forestry Officer, UN-FAO
Dr. Morales supports FAO activities on National Forest Monitoring and Assessment, providing capacity building on planning, set-up and implementing national forest monitoring systems to member countries.
11:45 - 12:30 The German National Forest Inventory: an instrument for data provision on forestry and beyond
Dr. Gerald Kändler, Head of the Department of Biometry at the Baden-Württemberg Forest Research Institute, Freiburg
Among other duties, Dr. Kändler is responsible for the implementation and analysis of the German NFI in the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg.
Preliminary Workshop Program (September 2015, Durban and Pietermaritzburg)
The workshop program will be announced soon.
Workshop venue
The workshop will take place in the Ascot Bush Lodge in Pietermaritzburg.
