Short Rotation Forestry and Agroforestry: an Exchange of Experience Between CDM Countries and Europe
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Final public international conference of the Benwood project Conference proceedings Short Rotation Forestry and Agroforestry: an Exchange of Experience between CDM Countries and Europe. June 20 – 22, 2011 Marchesi di Barolo, Barolo, Italy Published by the Benwood project consortium Sponsor Short rotation forestry and Agroforestry: an exchange of experience between CDM countries and Europe Organizing Committee (Benwood consortium) Thomas Lewis (project coordinator and country manager for Austria) Magdalena Chuda energieautark consulting gmbh Hauptstraße 27/3, A-1140 Wien Tel.: +43-1-577.15.68- 11, Fax: +43-650-849.873.6 (mobile) Email: [email protected]; [email protected] www.energieautark.at Andrea Barban (country manager for Italy) Alasia New Clones Via Cambiani 14, 12038 Savigliano, Italy landline: +39 0172 377422 email: [email protected] www.alasianewclones.com Sanjeev K. Chauhan (country manager for India) Punjab Agricultural University Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Ludhiana 141 004, India landline: +91 161 2401960 ext 380 email: [email protected] www.pau.edu Jianmin Chang (country manager for China) Yanxue Han Beijing Forestry University Institute of Wood-based Material Science and Engineering 35 Qinghua East Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083 (People's Republic of China) landline: +86 10 62337733 email:[email protected]; [email protected] www.bjfu.edu.cn/english/ Fergus Sinclair (contact point Africa) Genevieve Lamond (country manager for UK) School of Environment and Natural Resources, Bangor University Gwynedd LL57 2DG, Bangor (United Kingdom) landline: +44 1248 382536 email:[email protected]; [email protected] www.bangor.ac.uk Rodrigo Martins Vieira Coelho Ferreira (country manager for Brazil) Fabio Nogueira de Avelar Marques Plantar S/A Av. Raja Gabablia 1380, CEP 30380-090, Belo Horizonte – MG, Brasil landline: +55 31 3290 4032 email:[email protected], [email protected] www.plantar.com.br Marco Lange (country manager for Germany) University of Göttingen Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Crop Sciences, Section Agricultural Engineering Gutenbergstraße 33, D-37075 Göttingen, Germany landline: +49551399396 email: [email protected] www.gwdg.de Short rotation forestry and Agroforestry: an exchange of experience between CDM countries and Europe Organizing committee (Benwood consortium) Jannis Dimitriou (country manager for Sweden) Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Crop Production Ecology P.O. Box 7016 – Vallvägen, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden landline: +46 18 672553 email: [email protected] www.vpe.slu.se Peter Liebhard Ferdinand Deim Depart. Of Applied Plant Sciences and Plant Biotechnology, Institute of Agronomy and Plant Breeding BOKU – University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Gregor Mendel Straße 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria landline: +43 1 47654 330 email:[email protected]; [email protected] www.boku.ac.at/ Martin Hofmann Christian Siebert Kompetenzzentrum HessenRohstoffe e.V. Am Sande 20, D - 37213 Witzenhausen, Germany landline: +49 5542 6003 357 email: [email protected]; [email protected] www.hero-hessen.de Davorin Kajba (country manager for Croatia) University of Zagreb Faculty of Forestry P.O.B. 422, Svetosimunska 25, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia landline: +385 1 6666 098 email: [email protected] www.sumfak.hr Jan Wieslaw Dubas (country manager for Poland) Kochanska-Dubas Jolanta ul. Wyczolkowskiego 39, 58-500 Jelenia Gora, Poland landline: + 48 75 76 78 976 email: [email protected] www.wena.jgora.pl Erwin Rotheneder Christoph Strasser Bioenergy 2020+ GmbH Rottenhauserstraße 1, A-2350 Wieselburg Austria landline: + 43 664 3297319 email: [email protected]; [email protected] www.bioenergy2020.eu Short rotation forestry and Agroforestry: an exchange of experience between CDM countries and Europe Thomas Lewis project co-ordinator Benwood energieautark consulting gmbh (FN 279691 k) Hauptstraße 27/3 A-1140 Wien Tel. (mobile).: +43-650-849.873.6 Tel.: +43-1-577.15.68-11 Dear reader of this booklet, [email protected] www.energieautark.at one of the phenomenons which led to the fall of ancient cultures is what Pulitzer award winner 1998, Jared Diamond, calls 'forgetfulness about the landscape' in his book 'Collapse. How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed' (Penguin. 2005). The population of the Easter Island deforested the terrain of their own island obviously not on purpose or with destructive intentions - it was because elder generations were not any more alive who would have been able to pass on information how much forest there was in former times and about its vital functions. Today we have a chance to do better. The difference is our potential to make information available in due quality and language, first place in oral but as well in written form, in today's world also backed up with photographs and film material. The Benwood project has been funded by the European Union within its research programme FP7 in order to make relevant information on short rotation forestry available to stakeholders bundling according resources. Benwood groups project partners from Africa (represented via the project partner from the U.K., based in Kenya), Austria, Brazil, China, Croatia, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom. This booklet is part of the overall information exchange campaign. At the corresponding final public conference in Italy participants from four different continents have come together to exchange experience on short rotation forestry and agroforestry. In addition to exchanging knowledge across national borders, we have to talk to each other across disciplines in order to approach adequately current global challenges (climate change, food scarcity, mass introduction of renewable energy) For instance, this becomes obvious when discussing about the usage of wood. In an integrative approach, in a project on short rotation forestry a project developer should dedicate the same attention to introducing cooking stoves with an improved efficiency as she/he dedicates to the design of the short rotation plantation itself and the optimization of the wood yield. Every kilogram of wood saved in combustion (reducing heat losses and not combusted parts) is equal in value to an additional kilogram of wood obtained from optimizing the wood plantation. Moreover, think about other disciplines such as photovoltaic systems for irrigation pumps, timber and pulp & paper industry etc. Benwood tried to take account of the exchange between cultures and disciplines and provides according resources to stakeholders: Written outputs: Please download them from the public website www.benwood.eu soon after this conference (June 2011) - at least in draft form: 1. Best Practices of Short Rotation Forestry – a description of practices focusing on Short Rotation Forestry in Europe Short rotation forestry and Agroforestry: an exchange of experience between CDM countries and Europe 2. Land use management standards – a description of the conflict between growing trees on agricultural fields and food production with a focus on African case studies 3. Guidelines on Short Rotation Forestry – a synthesis of the essentials of short rotation forestry for project developers 4. Profitability of Short Rotation Forestry from the Farmer's Perspective – a synopsis of differences between developing and industrialized countries together with case studies on different business models. Sheds light also on the economic importance of annual crops in agroforestry systems. 5. Guideline for project developers: Information about cooking stoves – an overview on the relevance of the efficiency of small cooking stoves based on wood fuel. 6. Biomass gasification, options for local electricity and charcoal production from Short Rotation Forestry – an document on charcoal making. Charcoal is one of the main cooking fuels in many developing countries. 7. Research Agenda on Short Rotation Forestry – a document on the most pressing research issues in the sector. 8. CDM specifics– a document which outlines the characteristics of countries which may host the so called 'CDM projects' with regard to short rotation forestry (traditionally these countries are developing countries) Direct, personal contacts via public workshops Since 2010 events of personal face-to-face exchange have taken place, This was in Beijing, three workshops/awareness camps were held in India one of which, sponsored as well by IUFRO, was the biggest event in the whole project with about 200 participants resulting in many scientific articles. Moreover, there was a virtual live seminar (in the internet) held in November 2010 with participants covering a geographical space between Brazil and India. And finally there is the event in Italy where the current booklet is a result of. Films and photographs A DVD has been produced and is available against a small fee to cover shipping cost. See details on how to obtain it at ww.benwood.eu. The DVD includes in particular all material too bulky for download, for instance about 2,5 hs of video material and more than 2000 photographs. Let us not stop here Please see this current booklet as your potential entry point to something that should go on after this project has ended,- the exchange of experience among stakeholders on short rotation forestry and agroforestry. Means to continue the international exchange of experience are 1. registering