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Advancing Conservation and Use of Natural Resources Advancing Conservation and Use of Natural Resources SANREM CRSP 2003 - 2004 Annual Report Advancing Conservation and Use of Natural Resources SANREM CRSP Annual Report 2003 - 2004 Kristen R. Miller Editor Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Program 1422 Experiment Station Road Watkinsville, GA 30677 USA The SANREM CRSP is supported by the United States Agency for International Development Cooperative Agreement Number PCE-A-00-98-00019-00, and is managed through the Office of International Agriculture, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. Annual Report 2003-2004 Kristen R. Miller Editor Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Program 1422 Experiment Station Road Watkinsville, Georgia, 30677, USA Cover Photograph by Jan Flora Contents Introduction................................................................................................................................5 SANREMAndes...............................................................................................................7 SANREMDecisionSupportSystems.................................................................33 SANREMGlobalImpactsandInformationExchange.....................................55 SANREMSoutheastAsia.........................................................................................63 SANREMWestAfrica..............................................................................................113 3 SANREMCRSP 2003-2004AnnualReport Introduction This Annual Report marks the conclusion of ership of R. Rhoades put together a ToolBook- SANREM’s second Phase (1998-2004). based multimedia CD with data, documents, Fittingly, the report is full of great accomplish- maps, photographs pertaining to Cotacachi, as ments under the rubrics of integration, problem well as a GIS-based Atlas of Cotacachi Canton. solving, institution strengthening, up scaling Rola, Sumbalan and Suminguit produced a and ensuring the impact of research beyond the document titled "Realities of watershed man- life of the project. agement in the Philippines: the Manupali Watershed Experience." Deutsch el al. conclud- The year was enthusiastically devoted to syn- ed a monograph of community-based water thesizing information and making it available monitoring based on the Philippines and to stakeholders. All projects organized and con- Ecuador projects. Buck et al. completed a state ducted synthesis conferences, often in different of the art assessment on natural and social sci- formats depending on the stakeholders that ence research worldwide on the management of SANREM researchers wanted to reach. SAN- land use systems to support biodiversity con- REM SE Asia launched the first synthesis con- servation. Badini completed soil characteriza- ference on January 13-14, 2004 ("Land Use tion, botanical and pasture biomass analyses in Change in Tropical Watersheds’, Manila, Madiama, Mali in order to ascertain the contri- Philippines). SANREM Andes organized its bution of rotational grazing to soil carbon conference in Cotacachi, Ecuador sequestration and pasture biomass production. ("Sustainability of Landscapes and Livelihoods Nazarea and Rhoades organized a state of the in the Andes," January 15-17). SANREM’s art workshop on agrobiodiversity conservation West Africa’s conference was one month later issues (April 30-May 1). Crane concluded (February 24-26) and titled "Institutional research on local knowledge of soils and soil Innovations and Technological Development fertility maintenance in Mali, and Rodriguez for a Decentralized and Sustainable NRM". and Southgate completed research on farmers’ The DSS project, for its part, organized a work- willingness to accept compensation in return shop in Nairobi, Kenya integrating data, for changing or abandoning agricultural activi- research results and analysis at farm- sub- ties in upper watersheds in the Quito water- national and national level (May 4, 2004). shed, Ecuador. SANREM SE Asia also organized in May a meeting in Lantapan with local and provincial In all projects, detailed data on soils, slopes and government officials, producers’ groups, the gradients, land use, weather, stream channels Tigbantay Wahig, HPI, and other stakeholders. and stream flow, water quality and quantity were completed and integrated into GIS layers. Individual projects also contributed to consoli- From these layers, SANREM researchers pro- dating and synthesizing information. For duced interpretive maps specifically tailored to instance, the Andes researchers under the lead- meet the needs of natural resource decision 5 makers around site-specific constraints. In into lesson plans. A Manual for Training on Ecuador, for instance, the interest was on Policy Analysis for Watershed Management increasing productivity through soil fertility was produced in the Philippines at the request management and improved use of irrigation, of officials of the Department of the Interior and so maps were produced to identify fertile and Local Government. Several GIS training soils, locate water sources for increased irriga- workshops for local government planners were tion, and characterize sources of water contam- organized in Lantapan, as well as a 8-week 1- ination. In Kenya, the interest was on ascer- hour radio broadcast program titled School on taining the potential impact of implementing Air, where technological information was pro- the government’s policy of massive reforesta- vided to farmers by ICRAF, HPI and SANREM tion in watersheds in the country. Maps and personnel. supporting analysis were produced to docu- ment the economic and soil sediment impact of To ensure the "portability" of the SANREM land uses that would be displaced as a result of experience, our researchers distilled research reforestation. Sub-basins were identified for results into multiple channels with a remark- priority reforestation. In the Philippines, GIS able productivity. Three book manuscripts layers of land use and livestock and human have been submitted to CABI by, respectively, population densities within sub-watersheds the Andes, SE Asia and West Africa projects were prepared. The information was used to and will be printed and distributed later in the determine the environmental and economic year. In the period 1998-2004, SANREM pro- costs and benefits related to the utilization of duced 86 refereed journal articles, 84 book livestock manure to intensify agricultural pro- chapters, 18 books, 53 policy briefs, 74 duction. research reports, 57 working papers, 105 con- ference presentations, and 18 tool documenta- Research results and analysis were presented to tion papers. decision-makers and host country researchers. Datasets for a climate change study in Mali and SANREM funds sponsored 33 Ph.D.s and 16 Senegal were made available to AGRHYMET. MS/MA theses. The ToolBook CD and the Cotacachi Canton Atlas were delivered to local government offi- All and all, this Annual Report brings news of cials, UNORCAC, the Ministry of the a very productive year and 6 year period. Environment, the Institute of Hydrology and local NGOs in Ecuador. By collaborating with the Philippines Watershed Management Carlos A. Perez Coalition, SANREM SE Asia team members Director were able to participate in the drafting of posi- SANREM CRSP tion papers that were presented to the Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and the President of the Philippines. We made sure that the effect of SANREM would continue beyond the life of the project. The ME produced a training manual for upper primary and secondary school teachers to encourage them to incorporate NRM principles 6 SANREMAndes SANREMCRSP Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management May 2004 Collaborative Research Support Program Annual Report Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) AND_1 Coordination and Management of SANREM-Andes Principal Investigator ABSTRACT and collaborators in the Andes; link with Robert Rhoades During the final year of SANREM Phase Management Entity and other regional II, this workplan ensured coordination projects. and fiscal management of the Andean program by providing timely administra- Achievements tive and financial support to PIs and host IBR (The Institute for Behavioral country collaborators. The project effi- Research, University of Georgia) ciently linked with the Management responded efficiently and professionally Entity by filing timely reports and sup- to multiple and last minute requests for plying information as requested by detailed budgetary reporting. The year USAID or the ME. After several years of was especially challenging given the fre- decentralized databases in Cotacachi, quent changes in budget decisions and Catholic University-Quito, and UGA, the need to frequently re-write budgets. IBR interdisciplinary database was centralized worked effectively with accounting sup- and distributed to all partners, including port offices at Auburn, Iowa State, Ohio local partners in the Canton Cotacachi. A State and UGA (The University of full-time Ecuadorian coordinator (Ing Georgia) to move funds speedily through Xavier Zapata) has maintained excellent the pipeline. The facilities in Ecuador oversight of the program through is pri- were upgraded and experienced high mary base in Cotacachi but also from occupancy rates in Year 6 with as many as Catholic University-Quito. The activity 6 researchers at a time
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