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Sustainable Use of Land and Resources SANREM CRSP 2000 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 Environ- mental Sciences at the University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., USA. Table of Contents Sustainable Use of Land and Resources ...................................................................................... 9 Southeast Asia Project Overview and Activity Reports ........................................................ 17 Policy Analysis for Environmental Management Planning ......................................... 22 Integrated Watershed Modeling for Decision Support and Policy Planning ........................................................................................................ 25 Water Resources Management and Education ............................................................. 28 Adapting and Transferring Lessons Learned from the Manupali Watershed to Other Critical Watersheds in Southeast Asia................................................................. 31 Replicating Models of Institutional Innovation for Devolved, Participatory Watershed Management ......................................................................... 35 Capability Building for Natural Resource Management at the Local Level .............. 39 Technical and Institutional Innovations to Evolve Agroforestry Systems for Sustainable Agriculture and the Management of Protected Ecosystems ...................................................................................................... 42 Weather Monitoring Using Automatic Weather Stations ............................................ 46 Andes Project Overview and Activity Reports ........................................................................ 49 Ethnoecology: Stakeholder Perceptions and Use of Andean Landscape Maps and Models ......................................................................................... 54 Integrated Institutiona Management: Social Capital, Institutional Capacity, and Environmental Capital in the Andes .............................................................................. 58 Water Resources and Environmental Education in Two Andean Watersheds ............ 63 Sustainable Mountain Futures: Linking People and Information for Effective Land- scape Decision Making in the Andes ............................................................................. 66 Effects of Land Use Change on Long-Term Soil Fertility, Crop Productivity and Water Quality in Cotacachi ............................................................................................ 70 Regional Node for Training and Upscaling of Community-Based Natural Resource Decision Making ............................................................................................................. 74 West Africa Project Overview and Activity Reports .............................................................. 76 Workshop on Conflict and Natural Resource Management: Emerging Lessons and Directions from West Africa .................................................... 81 Reinforcement of the Organizational Capacity of the Natural Resource Management Advisory Committee ................................................................................ 83 Development of Methods and Tools for Evaluation and Decision Making ................ 86 Farmers Decision-Making Aides for Improved Soil Fertility Management .............. 89 Community Decision-Making Aides for Improved Pasture Lands ............................. 91 Global Impacts and Information Exchange Project Overview and Activity Reports ..... 93 SANREM Year 2000 Conference in Chile ..................................................................... 96 Communications and Information Exchange ............................................................... 98 Development of Decision-Maker Priorities and Decision Support Opportunities ................................................................................... 101 Decision Support System Project Overview and Activity Reports .................................. 105 Global Level Analysis .................................................................................................... 109 Development of Economic Models .............................................................................. 114 Development of Biophysical and Environmental Models ......................................... 117 Spatially Explicit Analysis ............................................................................................ 120 National and Regional Applications of Decision Support Systems ........................... 123 Delivery Systems and Capacity Building .................................................................... 126 Acronyms ....................................................................................................................................... 128 Sustainable Use of Land and Resources This document describes the progress of the SANREM CRSP1 for the period June 1, 2000 to May 31, 2001. The coming year will mark the 10th anniversary of the economic and social development goals with the the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. That summit long-term viability of the environment and natural launched Agenda 21, a plan that outlines new ways to resource base. These tools are essential to the invest in the future and achieve sustainable achievement of the Agenda 21 target of sustainable development in the 21st century. As we move toward development. the next Earth Summit the World Summit on Three focused objectives contribute to SANREMs Sustainable Development to be held in Johannesburg, long-term goal of improving decision making by South Africa in 2002 countries will review the natural resource managers: progress made since the Rio Summit. Objective 1. Landscape/Lifescape Decision Support. The Sustainable development articulates solutions that first objective is to develop methods, tools and are economically viable, environmentally sound, and institutional capacity that support sustainable socially and culturally responsible. Agriculture and agriculture and natural resources management policy natural resources are at the center of sustainable design, issue analysis, planning and implementation development. Success in achieving sustainable at the landscape/lifescape level. development goals depends on making informed Objective 2. Regional Decision Support. The second decisions regarding sustainable agriculture and objective is to develop methods for assisting decisions natural resources management. Supporting such made at the global regional and national levels on broad informed decisions through research, training and issues related to sustainable agriculture and natural information exchange is the focus of the Sustainable resources. Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Objective 3. Technology Transfer. The third objective Collaborative Research Support Program (SANREM is to develop methods that facilitate exchange of natural CRSP). resources management information and knowledge within and across multiple scales. SANREM’s Mission and Objectives SANREM’s Cornerstones SANREMs mission is to assist in the creation and successful application of decision support methods, The SANREM research approach is built upon the information, institutional innovations and local cornerstones of participation, interdisciplinary capacity to support participatory sustainable collaboration, inter-sectoral (or multi-stakeholder) agriculture and natural resource planning, cooperation, and research at a landscape/lifescape scale. management and policy analysis at local, municipal, The project brings together experts from U.S. and host provincial and national levels. country universities, local and national government SANREMs decision support tools aim to enable officials, regional and international agricultural the formulation and answering of questions that link research centers, and U.S. and host country non- government organizations. 1 An interdisciplinary, multinational team of SANREM CRSP is an abbreviation for the Sustainable scientists works with local people to tailor research to Agriculture and Natural Resource Management community priorities. Research focuses on both Collaborative Research Support Program. SANREM is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development understanding the complex biological processes within and is managed by the University of Georgia. an individual ecosystem and the human dimensions. 9 Where SANREM is in the World Lantapan, Bukidnon Province, and six rivers in SANREM projects work in West Africa, Southeast Maitum, Sarangani Province. This is the seventh Asia and Latin America to provide natural resource year of data collection for the Lantapan group and decisions-makers with: the first year for the Maitum group. Data from 1997 to 1999 indicate that all sub-watersheds of Access to appropriate data and information, Lantapan are degrading. However, increased Access to appropriate tools and methods to analyze awareness has prompted farming communities the data and information, and and local governments to take action, such as Enhanced individual and