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Choosing a Sustainable Future SANREM CRSP 1999 Annual Report Kathleen Cason Report Coordinator and 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. The 1999 SANREM Annual Report is dedicated to the memory of Robert D. Hart in remembrance of his contributions as Director of the SANREM CRSP. Robert D. Hart 1946-1999 Table of Contents Choosing a Sustainable Future ...................................................................................................... 9 Southeast Asia Project Overview and Activity Reports .......................................................... 13 Environmental Management Planning and Development Policy Analysis Using a Watershed-Community Model in Lantapan, Philippines ...................................................................................................................... 19 Integrated Watershed Modeling for Decision Support and Policy Planning....................................................................................................... 21 Water Resources Management and Education .......................................................... 23 Bio-Economic Modeling of Changes to Traditional Vegetable Production Practices in the Manupali Watershed With Extensions to Other Southeast Asian Watersheds ........................................... 26 Adapting and Transferring Lessons Learned from Manupali to Other Critical Watersheds in Southeast Asia ............................................................. 29 Replicating Models of Institutional Innovation for Devolved, Participatory Watershed Management ....................................................................... 31 Capability Building for Natural Resource Management at the Local Level ......... 34 Technical and Institutional Innovations to Evolve Agroforestry Systems for Sustainable Agriculture and the Management of Protected Ecosystems in the Framework of a Watershed Model............................ 36 Weather Monitoring Using Automatic Weather Stations ........................................ 40 Andes Project Overview and Activity Reports ......................................................................... 43 Ethnoecology: Stakeholder Perceptions and Use of Andean Landscape Maps and Models ...................................................................................... 47 Institutions and Natural Resource Management in the Andes............................... 50 Institutions and Natural Resource Management in the Andes............................... 53 Water Resources and Environmental Education in Two Andean Watersheds ..... 55 Sustainable Mountain Futures ..................................................................................... 58 West Africa Project Overview and Activity Reports ................................................................ 61 Cattle and Manure Management Strategies to Increase Soil Phosphorus Level in Western Niger .................................................... 65 Modeling Community Socioeconomic Linkages and Growth: Towards Sustainable NRM Agropastoral Systems Under Environmental Stress and Conflict ................................................................. 67 Workshop on Conflict and Natural Resource Management: Emerging Lessons and Directions from West Africa ................................................ 69 Creation of a Community Level Natural Resource Management Advisory Committee............................................................................. 72 Testing and Demonstrating Natural Resource and Conflict Management Technologies and Practices to Increase Food Security and Income Generation in Madiama Commune, Mopti Region, Mali ........................................ 75 Global Project Overview and Activity Reports ........................................................................ 79 Communications ............................................................................................................ 84 Assessment of Decision-Maker Priorities and Decision Support Opportunities ................................................................................. 87 Global Decision Support System ................................................................................. 91 Decision Support System for Global Level Analysis ................................................ 93 Sustainable Development and Food Security in Watersheds of the World........... 96 Development of Economic and Biophysical Models .............................................. 198 GIS and Spatially Explicit Analysis........................................................................... 103 Interactive and Participatory Delivery System ....................................................... 106 Collaboration with Regional SANREM Projects at Local Levels.......................... 109 Acronyms ........................................................................................................................................ 111 Publication List ............................................................................................................................. 115 Choosing a Sustainable Future This document describes the progress of the SANREM CRSP1 for the period June 1, 1999 to May 31, 2000. ith a world population SANREM’s Approach expected to hit 8 billion Through research, training and information people by 2030, the de- exchange, SANREM aims to improve decision- mands for food and fiber will be un- making so that food production and land use are W balanced with environmental conservation. precedented in our history. And those The SANREM program funded by the U.S. demands are growing in the face of Agency for International Development was started continuing deterioration of the eco- in 1992. The program is a partnership of universities, research institutions, development organizations and systems that we depend on for sur- rural communities around the world that have joined vival. together to develop sustainable ways of using land Humanitys challenge in the coming decades is to and other natural resources. pursue three goals simultaneously. First, we must SANREM works to improve natural resource produce enough food to keep up with the needs of decision-making at all levels through one global and rapidly growing populations without significantly three regional projects. increasing the amount of land under the plow. Some aspects of sustainable agriculture and Second, economic opportunities must be available so natural resource management are site-specific. poverty can be reduced. Poverty is not only a tragedy Regional projects in Southeast Asia, the Andes and for the individual but contributes to environmental West Africa focus on decision-makers at local to and political instability. Third, our natural resource provincial levels e.g. farmers, mayors, land use use must be sustainable because depletion of natural planners and others. resources affects our ability to address the first two The three regional projects let us test out ideas, goals now and in the future. develop models and put sustainable practices in The three goals are interdependent. For example, action. Each one deals with unique problems and can good soil management has an impact on both agricul- help develop ways to address problems in other parts tural production and the opportunity to maintain a of the world because the regional research sites are livelihood. representative of the terrain, climate and problems Achieving the three goals will depend on our that create decision-making issues throughout ability to make the best decisions for the long term developing countries. and accept the trade-offs in the short term. And good But local decisions are not the only ones that decision-making is what the SANREM CRSP is all impact on an area. Decisions made at different levels about. in a country or even the world can impact on the ability of a local area to put sustainable practices into action. So SANREM, during its second phase (1998- 1 2003), is developing tools and models to aid decision- SANREM CRSP is an abbreviation for the Sustainable makers at regional, national and even global levels Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collabora- through its Global Project. tive Research Support Program. SANREM is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and is man- SANREMs global and regional projects aim to aged by the University of Georgia. provide natural resource decisions-makers with: 9 (a) data and information, (b) tools and methods to Ensuring Participation and Providing Information for use data and information, and (c) enhanced capacity Decision-Making of individuals and institutions to make decisions. In the past, efforts to implement change in By thinking about environment and development developing countries have failed when the directives issues hand-in-hand, we should find ways to meet for change came from the top. The failures are due in basic human needs, improve standards of living for part because local people were not engaged in the all, and protect and manage ecosystems for a safer decision-making process. more prosperous future.