Development News: no. 1 Skarvig, Isabelle Publication date: 2008 Citation for published version (APA): Skarvig, I. (Ed.) (2008). Development News: no. 1. Forest & Landscape, University of Copenhagen. Download date: 24. sep.. 2021 DEVELOPMENT NEWS N O . 1 • · M ar C H 2 0 0 8 Welcome to a new issue of the FLD newsletter. In this issue you can find brief updates on some of our on-going projects, as well as presentations of new members of our staff and new FLD publications. The last months of 2007 and first months of 2008 have been a busy period for FLD and our many partners, which should also be reflected in this newsletter. A new Per- formance Contract between FLD and other Danida supported centres at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen and Danida has been signed. The contract gives the direction and performance goals for the support in the period 2008-10. I wish you a pleasant reading! Yours sincerely, Niels Elers Koch Director-General Forest & Landscape Denmark Students and resource persons taking part in the Tropical Forest Landscape News from projects Restoration course held in Thailand 1. Tropical Forest Landscape Restora- ducting community-based forest management. tion in Southeast Asia - Field course Many of the Royal projects related to forestry and 6–27 Jan 2008 - FORRSA nature management were presented in situ. Com- Students and resource persons from 16 bining the above mentioned subjects with the countries met in Thailand for a 3 week insight in Thai-culture, provided by Dr. Damrong, course with focus on Tropical Forest and the students made a report on different relevant Landscape Restoration. The course started subjects, and surely went home with great know- with a theoretical session at Kasetsart ledge about forest and landscape restoration and University in Bangkok. The field courses Thai culture. Furthermore the course provided all included visits to a teak improvement participants with a great chance to create contacts centre, local NTFP markets, a forest fire with both students and resource persons for fu- control centre, a pine improvement centre, ture co-operation! community based forestry and water man- agement and a home-stay in a village con- Morten Alban Knudsen: [email protected] 2. Kyoto – Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project in 4. Training Workshop on ‘Delivering trees to farmers: im- South Africa proving strategies for germplasm supply’, 29th October As it’s name sug- Over the past 3 years Forest & Landscape - 2nd November 2007 at the World Agroforestry Centre gests, the CDM has been involved in forest-related CDM (ICRAF) in Nairobi facilitates Clean projects in South Africa. The CDM cov- Development. ers 14 sectoral scopes, of which only ICRAF and FLD have worked together closely on tree seed and Obsolete boilers 3 (energy industries, afforestation and seedling delivery issues for more than a decade. This training work- can be upgraded reforestation, and agriculture) are really shop was a collaborative exercise, drawing on the experiences of to the most mo- applicable to forestry and other land- the two institutions. It has been widely accepted that the poor per- dern combustion use practices. The Forest & Landscape formance of existing tree seed and seedling delivery systems, calls technology, resul- projects have been carried out together for a need to strategically rethink the operational means by which ting in ultra-low with Danish Forestry Extension A/S, a tree germplasm reaches smallholders, and the roles of current emissions and consulting firm specialising in setting up outgrower schemes, actors. The current strategy in the crop sector is improving the ef- greatly improved supplier associations and commercial supply chains for forest ficiency of decentralised, commercial supply systems, through en- efficiencies; the products. These projects have largely focused on the ‘energy hanced network development and by greater market orientation. cost being offset industry’ sector in that they have dealt with feasibility studies and Though relevant lessons from agriculture crops may be applied to by the sale of car- project design for biomass fired combined heat and power (CHP) trees, the two sectors have traditionally worked quite separate. bon credits to the plants. The biomass originates both from industrial plantations developed world. (pre-commercial thinnings, harvesting slash) and from ecologi- The course accommodated 8 participants from Asia, Africa and Lat- cal restoration projects, where large volumes of woody invasive in America, representing a wide range of stakeholders e.g. national aliens (predominantly Acacias, Pines and Eucalypts) are removed tree seed centres (TSC), non-governmental organizations (NGO), from threatened ecosystems. agencies involved in micro-enterprise development, commercial busi- nesses, research and extension services, and relevant regulators. Despite being a ‘powerhouse’ in sub-Saharan Africa, early predic- tions of S. Africa running low on power generating capacity by 008 have proven quite accurate. Expansions on the 44000 MW installed capacity haven’t kept abreast of developments in the strong economic upturn, and the country has been subjected to periodic power outages since 007. This, together with the in- centive of the sale of carbon credits or Certified Emission Reduc- tions (CER’s) that are issued through the CDM’s executive board, has meant that wood processing industries in particular are now eager to get projects up and running. The prime aim of the course was to enable participants to carry Forest & Landscape has expertise in the spectrum of disciplines out a thorough analysis of national tree seed supply systems drawn upon in designing a CDM project. This ranges from soil including interaction with other aspects of agroforestry practices carbon modelling, growth and yield modelling, technical harvest- and development and assessment of the different sources of tree ing and logistics skills, establishment of baselines, combustion germplasm for smallholders. Secondly the participants should be issues, social and environmental impact assessment as well as the able to identify crucial gaps of the present systems and suggest economics of natural resources and trade in the carbon market. possible improvements and intervention, possibly with adoptions As such, the centre offers a comprehensive support system to from crop supply practices. project developers while at the same time it gains access to inter- esting and diverse aspects of development research. Working group exercises generally indicated much common ground among different institutions in the definition of roles in Bruce Talbot: [email protected] supply systems, e.g. NGOs roles of providing technical support to farmers, meeting training needs and promotion of market access, and the National Agricultural Research Sector’s (NARS) role on 3. NuTree project started evaluation, improvement, and provision of elite material (in small The project “Improving food potential of West African Parkland quantities) of tree species. trees” – called “NuTree” was initiated in August 007. The aim of the project is capacity building educating 4 African Ph.D Some different views were revealed in terms of the roles of TSCs, students in cooperation between local research institutions and NARS and small commercial dealers in provision of high quality University of Copenhagen. Three students are from Burkina Faso material germplasm of fruits and timber species. The crucial points and one from Mali. The research is focused on two of the most were the wider and more decentralized distribution of the small important multipurpose species in West Africa; the Baobab and suppliers (and to some degree the NARS) with better access to the African Locust Bean (Parkia). There are four research topics: farmers, versus the alleged better access to high quality germplasm Nutrient properties of the fruits and leafs, the adaptation of the by the TSCs. trees in relation to climate change, breeding of superior Baobab trees and vegetative improvement of Baobab and Parkia. The Apart from lectures and group work the workshop also included four Ph.D. students have started their projects including making a one day fieldtrip to the farm areas aroundN airobi. The fieldtrip plans and starting courses (see previous issue of Development focused on multi-farming systems and access to quality tree germ- News). The projects will run until July 010. plasm. 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The PhD project addresses postdoctoral research project entitled ‘Local Finances, Livelihoods the potentials of PES to meet the simultane- and Legitimacy - Decentralised Natural Resources Revenue Col- ous goals of poverty alleviation and provision lection in Nepal and Tanzania‘ from the The Danish Social Science of environmental services in the smallholder Research Council.