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 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

Preliminary program

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	Meeting of organization panel
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: Lutz Fehrmann
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 and Lutz Fehrmann)
11:30 – 12:00 h	Seminar paper	Introduction to South African forestry and forest research (Thomas Seifert and Cori Ham)
12:00 – 13:30 h	Lunch break
		Moderator: tbd Rapporteur: tbd
13:30 - 14:00 h	Seminar paper	Gunung Walat Educational Forest: From Bare Land to Forest Stand (Yusuf Sudo Hadi)
14:00 – 14:30 h	Seminar paper	Presentation from China (CAF, Beijing, China)
14:30 – 15:00 h	Seminar paper	Presentation from India (FRI, Dehradun, India
15:00 – 15:30 h	Coffee break
		Moderator: tbd Rapporteur: tbd
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)
16:00 – 16:30 h	Seminar paper	Presentation from Ethiopia (Mekelle University,Mekelle, Ethiopia)
16:30 – 17:00 h	Seminar paper	Presentation from South Africa (Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa)
Friday 2.12.2011 DAY TWO
		Moderator: tbd Rapporteur: tbd
9:00 - 9:30 h	Seminar paper	Presentation from Mexico (UANL, Linares, Mexico)
9:30 - 10:00 h	Seminar paper	Remote sensing challenges in climate change research and policy (Hans Fuchs)
10:00 - 10:30 h	Seminar paper	Presentation of ICFR (??)
10:30 – 11:00 h	Coffee break
		Moderator: tbd Rapporteur: tbd
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)
11:30 - 12:00 h	Student paper	Presentation on scale issues in forest monitoring (Philip Mundhenk)
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)
12:30 – 14:00 h	Lunch break
		Moderator: tbd Rapporteur: tbd
14:00 – 14:20 h	Student paper	Student paper 2 (Göttingen 2)
14:20 – 14:40 h	Student paper	Student paper 3 (Freiburg)
14:40 – 15:00 h	Student paper	Student paper 4 (Tharandt)
15:00 – 15:20 h	Student paper	Student paper 5 (Göttingen 3)
15:20 – 15:50 h	Coffee break
15:50 – 16:10 h	Student paper	Student paper 6 (Göttingen 4)
16:10 – 16:30 h	Student paper	Student paper 7 (Göttingen 5)
16:30 – 16:50 h	Student paper	Student paper 8 (Göttingen 6)
Saturday, 3.12.2011 DAY THREE
07:00 – 19:30h	Field trip
tbd.
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.
Monday, 5.12.2011 DAY FIVE
		Moderator: tbd 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
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: tbd 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
		Moderators: Hanns Höfle und Hans Fuchs
9:00 – 10:00	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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