DAAD FD5 Workshop

Background

Forests and any other trees outside the forest play a relevant role in the global carbon cycle. Deforestation contributes to about 20% to global greenhouse gas emissions -more than the whole transport sector.

At the same time, forests house the largest terrestrial biodiversity, contribute to water and soil conservation, offer space for recreation in many industrialized countries and are essential elements for rural livelihoods in many developing countries. Protection and sustainable management of forests has, therefore, more and more become a global issue. And global conventions are in place that do also make reference to forests and their management, including the UN-FCCC, the UN-CBD and the UN-CCD. Along the annual UN-FCCC Conference of the Parties, CIFOR organizes since COP13 in Bali (2007) an international conference, the “Forest Day”. This year, in 2011, with the generous support from the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD, the Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Chair of Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen had for the second time the opportunity to organize a Workshop along COP17 in Durban to enhance the knowledge of students from the Course “Tropical and International Forestry” (TIF) in the field of “Forests and Climate” and to facilitate their access to the Forest Day 5 and their understanding of the complex discussion process on REDD. We organize this workshop together with the Department of Forest and Wood Science, Stellenbosch University. We were also able to invite PhD students and professors and students from our partner universities.

Impressions from last year DAAD FD4 Workshop

The first international DAAD FD4 workshop took place 2010 along the Forest Day 4 in Cancún, Mexico. We believe that this workshop and the visit to Forest Day 4 was an unforgettable experience for all participants, both in scientific-technical terms and also in terms of international networking. Organization and implementation of this workshop was only possible through the active and comprehensive support by many. Our greatest thanks are due DAAD, inparticular to Mrs. Birgitt Skailes and Mrs. Anke Stahl for their helpfulness and efficient explanation of many important bureaucratic details. We are grateful to MSc Antje Henkelmann for assisting in many organizational matters and to BSc Alina Kleinn for editorial support to finalizing this proceedings volume. MSc Christoph Fischer edited the workshop programme, MSc Philipp Beckschäfer implemented successfully the preparatory video-conferences among all partners and Dr. Wibke Himmelsbach and Prof. Marco Gonzalez from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León UANL in Monterrey did the local organization of the workshop in Cancún which included a lot of logistics – and which worked out perfectly.

You can download the File:Workshop proceedings.pdf here.

• Impressions from DAAD FD4 Workshop in Cancún (photos: Philip Beckschäfer & Christoph Fischer)
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  Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa, President of Mexico speaking at the ForestDay 4

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  Carlos doing an interview with Theresa Presas, president of the international council of forest and paper associations

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  Christoph Kleinn as chairman of a session

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  Group photo near workshop venue

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  In front of the conference venue of ForestDay 4

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  Achim Dohrenbusch presenting the global carbon cycle

Guest lectures

The program for our workshop is divided in two parts. Before we meet in Pietermaritzburg there will be some introductory guest lectures held at the University of Göttingen. These presentations will give an introduction to the climate change- policy process and the role of forests in this context. The lectures are open to all interested. For those students who are not in Göttingen and for the international alumni participating in our workshop, a comprehensive abstract will be prepared.

We are happy about excellent speakers, and we are looking forward to instructive talks and discussions. Like done in the introductory seminar we will try to broadcast the lectures to interested international participants via telephone conference.

You can download the announcement for our guest lectures here: File:Guest lectures.pdf

1) Carbon Forestry: implementation and financing

Tuesday, 1. November 2011: 12:30-14:00h (lecture hall F01)

Dr. Timm Tennigkeit, Unique Forestry Consultants, Freiburg

Dr. Tennigkeit is a freelance consultant with comprehensive experience in the implementation of carbon forestry projects in Africa and Asia and had been working formerly for the ICRAF office in China for 5 years.

2) The evolution of REDD+ and what is at stake in Durban

Tuesday, 8. November 2011: 14:00-16:00h (lecture hall F01)

Mr. Fabian Schmidt, GIZ Eschborn

Mr. Schmidt is member of the GIZ team on “Environment and Climate”, has worked for the GIZ REDD Program in Indonesia, for CIFOR, the World Bank and Forest Finance Ltd.

• Presentation in Göttingen (photos: Philip Beckschäfer)
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3) Forests and land use in the tropics: challenges in their role in climate change mitigation and adaptation

Tuesday, 22. November 2011: 14:00-16:00h (lecture hall F01)

Prof. Dr. Markku Kanninen, University of Helsinki, Finnland

Prof. Kanninen is a professor of Tropical Silviculture. He was formerly scientific director at CATIE, Costa Rica, and at CIFOR, Indonesia. He is a member of the UNFCCC Adaptation Fund Board.

Introductory seminar

An introductory seminar on the workshop organization was held in Göttingen on 19. October. Please find the presentation here: File:FD5intro.pdf!

Preliminary Program for workshop in Pietermaritzburg

This is a preliminary program that will be further developed and updated during the next weeks.

Wednesday, 30.11.2011 Arrival
All day	Arrival of participants
Thursday, 1.12.2011 DAY ONE
8:00 – 9:00 h	Internal meeting of organization panel C Ham, T Seifert, L Fehrmann, C Kleinn
9:00 – 10:00 h	Workshop Opening	Opening: Christoph Kleinn (Universität Göttingen) Welcome Addresses: N.N. Information on workshop organization Introduction of participants Presentation of workshop programme
10:00 – 10:30 h	Coffee break
		Moderator: Hanns Höfle Rapporteurs: students 1 from Göttingen
10:30 – 11:00 h	Seminar paper	(How) can silviculture contribute to carbon sequestration? Achim Dohrenbusch
11:00 – 11:30 h	Seminar paper	Issues of forest monitoring in the context of climate change research and policy Christoph Kleinn, Lutz Fehrmann, Alexander Knohl
11:30 – 12:00 h	Seminar paper	Introduction to South African forestry and forest research Thomas Seifert, Cori Ham
12:00 – 13:30 h	Lunch break
		Moderator: Marco Gonzales Rapporteur: students from Ethiopia
13:30 - 13:50 h	Seminar paper	Gunung Walat Educational Forest: From Bare Land to Forest Stand Yusuf Sudo Hadi
13:50 – 14:10 h	Seminar paper	Presentation from China (CAF, Beijing, China) Yuangchang Lu, Tingting Li
14:10 – 14:30 h	Seminar paper	Presentation from India (FRI, Dehradun, India) Sharad Negi
14:30 – 14:50 h	Seminar paper	Presentation from South Africa Students Stellenbosch
14:50 – 15:20 h	Coffee break
		Moderator: Marco Gonzales Rapporteur: Students from Indonesia
15:20 – 15:40 h	Seminar paper	Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in changing climate conditions: the potential and challenges for Mozambique Almeida Sitoe, Rosta Mate, Benard Guedes
15:40 – 16:00 h	Seminar paper	A multidisciplinary approach for valuing dry land forests in the context of REDD as a public good Mesfin Tilahun, Erik Mathijs, Bart Muys
16:00 – 16:20 h	Seminar paper	Scale issues in forest monitoring Philip Mundhenk
16:20 – 16:40 h	Seminar paper	Presentation from South Africa Students Stellenbosch 2
16:40 h		Wrap-up of day 1 Alexander Knohl
Friday 2.12.2011 DAY TWO
		Moderator: Yusuf Hadi Rapporteur: Students from Bonn
9:00 - 9:30 h	Seminar paper	Are there lessons to be learned from forestry in Germany? Hanns Höfle
9:30 - 09:50 h	Seminar paper	Presentation from Mexico (UANL, Linares, Mexico) Marco Gonzales
09:50 - 10:10 h	Seminar paper	Climate change issues in forestry from Ecuador and Colombia Juan Carlos Camargo, Bolier Torres
10:10 - 10:30 h	Seminar paper	Comparative analysis of agroforestry systems utilized by local householders in the subwatershed of the Achamayo and Palcazu rivers, Central Andean Region, Peru Natalia Reategui
10:30 – 11:00 h	Coffee break
		Moderator: Yusuf Hadi Rapporteur: Students from Freiburg
11:00 – 11:20 h	Seminar paper	Modelling global data of climate and vegetation to a local scale; the case of Costa Rica, Central America Mauricio Vega
11:20 - 11:40 h	Student paper	Presentation from Bonn Ibrahim Mwkiru, Suman Ghimire
11:40 – 12:00 h	Seminar paper	Presentation from Kenya Rose Akombo
12:00 – 12:20 h	Seminar paper	tbd tbd
12:20 – 14:00 h	Lunch break
		Moderator: Sharad Negi Rapporteur: Students 1 from Stellenbosch
14:00 – 14:20 h	Student paper	Opportunities and challenges for tree crop integration in REDD+: GHANA AND COLOMBIA Maria Angelica Montes, Abdulai Issaka
14:20 – 14:40 h	Seminar paper	Setting national forest-climate change agenda: perspective from Uganda Gilbert Wathum
14:40 – 15:00 h	Seminar paper	When there is no enough milk and meat: Dryforests as alternative livelihood for climate change adaptation among the vulnerable pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in arid Ethiopia Adefires Worku, Jürgen Pretzsch, Habtemariam Kassa
15:00 – 15:20 h	Seminar paper	A review on opportunities and constraints of A/R-CDM Projects in developing countries Imani Kikoti and Phyu Phyu Lwin
15:20 – 15:50 h	Coffee break
		Moderator: Sharad Negi Rapporteur: Students 2 from Stellenbosch
15:50 – 16:10 h	Seminar paper	Community based forest enterprises: a potential strategy for climate change mitigation and adaptation Emmerson Chivhenge and Shambhu Charmakar
16:10 – 16:30 h	Seminar paper	Student paper from Göttingen tbd
16:30 – 16:50 h	Seminar paper	Effect of income from non-timber forest products on rural poverty and income inequality: a case study of rural households in dry woodland areas of Tigray, Ethiopia Amir Mohammed, Mesfin TIlahun, Erik Mathijs, Bart Muys, Atsede Gidey
Saturday, 3.12.2011 DAY THREE
07:00 – 19:30h	Field trip
07:00 – 12:30h	Visit to Tala game reserve and to forest areas
12:30 – 14:00h	Lunch break
14:00 – 19:30h	Visit to Howick Waterfall
Sunday 4.12.2011 DAY FOUR
06:30	Departure from Hotel
07:30	Foto session
08:00 – 20:00h	FD5	Participation at CIFOR Forest Day 5
		For directions to the conference centre please see Map attached at the end of Program. Transport arrangements (pick-up times and places) will be announced during the workshop !!
Monday, 5.12.2011 DAY FIVE
		Moderator: Achim Dohrenbusch Rapporteur: tbd
09:00 – 10:00 h	Workshop	Wrap-up of FD5 impressions
10:00 – 10:30 h	Coffee break
10:30 – 12:00 h	Workshop	Design of the structure of the proceedings volume and assignation of tasks (i.e. reports on FD5 and on the entire project)
12:00 – 12:30 h	Workshop	Introduction to group work
12:30 – 14:00 h	Lunch break
14:00 – 17:30 h	Workshop	Group work on summary papers & minutes of FD5 and on individual full papers
Tuesday, 6.12.2011 DAY SIX
		Moderator: Alexander Knohl
9:00 – 10:30 h	Workshop	ctd. Group work on summary papers & minutes of FD5 and on individual full papers
10:30 – 11:00 h	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 h	Workshop	ctd. Group work on summary papers & minutes of FD5 and on individual full papers
12:30 – 14:00 h	Lunch break
		Moderator: Alexander Knohl Rapporteur: tbd
14:00 – 15:00 h	Workshop	Plenary discussion on progress
15:00 – 15:30 h	Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00	Workshop	ctd. Group work on summary papers & minutes of FD5 and on individual full papers
Wednesday, 7.12.2011 DAY SEVEN
		Moderator: Hanns Höfle, Alexander Knohl Rapporteur: Hans Fuchs, Philip Mundhenk
9:00 – 10:30	Workshop	Final discussion on workshop outputs Evaluation and compilation of suggestions
10:00 – 11:00 h	Workshop	Assignation / verification of responsibilities Verification of deadlines Workshop Closing
11:00 h	Coffee break
Thereafter		Departure of participants

Workshop venue

The workshop will take place in the Ascot Bush Lodge in Pietermaritzburg (see location map below).

Location

The workshop will be held in Pietermaritzburg that is about 70 km north-west of Durban. This is a life view of openstreetmap:

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