DAAD FD5 Workshop
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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)
Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa, President of Mexico speaking at the ForestDay 4
Carlos doing an interview with Theresa Presas, president of the international council of forest and paper associations
Christoph Kleinn as chairman of a session
Group photo near workshop venue
In front of the conference venue of ForestDay 4
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.
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.
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 | ||
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All day |
Arrival of participants | |
Thursday, 1.12.2011 DAY ONE | ||
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8:00 – 9:00 h |
Meeting of organization panel | |
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9:00 – 10:00 h |
Workshop Opening |
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10:00 – 10:30 h |
Coffee break | |
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Moderator: Lutz Fehrmann | |
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10:30 – 11:00 h |
Seminar paper |
(How) can silviculture contribute to carbon sequestration? (Achim Dohrenbusch) |
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11:00 – 11:30 h |
Seminar paper |
Issues of forest monitoring in the context of climate change research and policy (Christoph Kleinn and Lutz Fehrmann) |
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11:30 – 12:00 h |
Seminar paper |
Introduction to South African forestry and forest research (Thomas Seifert and Cori Ham) |
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12:00 – 13:30 h |
Lunch break | |
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Moderator: tbd Rapporteur: tbd | |
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13:30 - 14:00 h |
Seminar paper |
Gunung Walat Educational Forest: From Bare Land to Forest Stand (Yusuf Sudo Hadi) |
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14:00 – 14:30 h |
Seminar paper |
Presentation from China (CAF, Beijing, China) |
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14:30 – 15:00 h |
Seminar paper |
Presentation from India (FRI, Dehradun, India) |
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15:00 – 15:30 h |
Coffee break | |
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Moderator: tbd Rapporteur: tbd | |
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15:30 – 16:00 h |
Seminar paper |
Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in changing climate conditions: the potential and challenges for Mozambique (Almeida Sitoe, Rosta Mate and Benard Guedes) |
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16:00 – 16:30 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)
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16:30 – 17:00 h |
Seminar paper |
Presentation from South Africa (Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa) |
Friday 2.12.2011 DAY TWO | ||
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Moderator: tbd Rapporteur: tbd | |
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9:00 - 9:30 h |
Seminar paper |
Presentation from Mexico (UANL, Linares, Mexico) |
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9:30 - 10:00 h |
Seminar paper |
Remote sensing challenges in climate change research and policy (Hans Fuchs) |
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10:00 - 10:30 h |
Seminar paper |
Are there lessons to be learned from forestry in Germany? (Hanns Höfle) |
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10:30 – 11:00 h |
Coffee break | |
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Moderator: tbd Rapporteur: tbd | |
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11:00 – 11:30 h |
Student paper |
Modelling global data of climate and vegetation to a local scale; the case of Costa Rica, Central America (Mauricio Vega) |
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11:30 - 12:00 h |
Student paper |
Presentation on scale issues in forest monitoring (Philip Mundhenk) |
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12:00 – 12:20 h |
Student 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) |
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12:30 – 14:00 h |
Lunch break | |
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Moderator: tbd Rapporteur: tbd | |
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14:00 – 14:20 h |
Student paper |
Opportunities and challenges for tree crop integration in REDD+: GHANA AND COLOMBIA (Maria Angelica Montes and Abdulai Issaka) |
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14:20 – 14:40 h |
Student paper |
Setting national forest-climate change agenda: perspective from Uganda (Gilbert Wathum) |
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14:40 – 15:00 h |
Student 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 and Habtemariam Kassa) |
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15:00 – 15:20 h |
Student paper |
A review on opportunities and constraints of A/R-CDM Projects in developing countries (Imani Kikoti and Phyu Phyu Lwin) |
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15:20 – 15:50 h |
Coffee break | |
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15:50 – 16:10 h |
Student paper |
Community based forest enterprises: a potential strategy for climate change mitigation and adaptation (Emmerson Chivhenge and Shambhu Charmakar) |
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16:10 – 16:30 h |
Student paper |
Student paper 7 (Göttingen 5) |
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16:30 – 16:50 h |
Student 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 | ||
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07:00 – 19:30h |
Field trip | |
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tbd. | ||
Sunday 4.12.2011 DAY FOUR | ||
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06:30 |
Departure from Hotel | |
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07:30 |
Foto session | |
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08:00 – 20:00h |
FD5 |
Participation at CIFOR Forest Day 5 |
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For directions to the conference centre please see Map attached at the end of Program. |
Monday, 5.12.2011 DAY FIVE | ||
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Moderator: tbd Rapporteur: tbd | |
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09:00 – 10:00 h |
Workshop |
Wrap-up of FD5 impressions |
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10:00 – 10:30 h |
Coffee break | |
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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) |
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12:00 – 12:30 h |
Workshop |
Introduction to group work |
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12:30 – 14:00 h |
Lunch break | |
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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 | ||
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9:00 – 10:30 h |
Workshop |
ctd. Group work on summary papers & minutes of FD5 and on individual full papers |
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10:30 – 11:00 h |
Coffee break | |
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11:00 – 12:30 h |
Workshop |
ctd. Group work on summary papers & minutes of FD5 and on individual full papers |
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12:30 – 14:00 h |
Lunch break | |
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Moderator: tbd Rapporteur: tbd | |
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14:00 – 15:00 h |
Workshop |
Plenary discussion on progress |
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15:00 – 15:30 h |
Coffee break | |
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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 | ||
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Moderators: Hanns Höfle und Hans Fuchs | ||
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9:00 – 10:00 |
Workshop |
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10:00 – 11:00 h
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Workshop
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11:00 h |
Coffee break | |
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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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