To Help Sustainable Development in the Amazon Region E. Adilson Serrão (Embrapa) Coordinator LBA SSC Meeting, São Paulo, November 2005 ‘

To Help Sustainable Development To Help Sustainable Development in the Amazon Region in the Amazon Region

E. Adilson Serrão (Embrapa)

Coordinator

LBA SSC Meeting, São Paulo, November 2005

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Natural Resources Natural Resources

DegradationDegradation

A Common Problem of Amazonian A Common Problem of Amazonian

CountriesCountries

Natural Resources Natural Resources

DegradationDegradation

A Common Problem of Amazonian A Common Problem of Amazonian

CountriesCountries

Major Challenge

•Reduce / revert natural resource degradation

• Improve living conditions of local communities

Major concernDeforestation and fire

~ 80 million hectares

Brazil: ~ 2 million ha/year

Adapted from Serrao et al, 1994

HOTSPOTS OF NATURAL

RESOURCES DEGRADATION IN

AMAZONIAN COUNTRIES

Priority Areas for Intervention

• Consolidated occupation areas

• Agrarian reform settlements

•Indian reserve margins

BRAZIL

[Pasture degradation, soybean development expansion, slash-and-burn agriculture]

“Arc of deforestation” and Road Axes

Pasture degradation (Beni)

Impact of Transoceanic Road (Pando)

Forest concessions

Large-scale agriculture (Santa Cruz)

BOLIVIA

(PANDO/BENI/SANTA CRUZ)

PERU

Illicit crops: San Martin, Ucayali

Timber extraction: Ucayali

Mining: Madre de Dios

(UCAYALI, SAN MARTIN, MADRE DE DEUS)

• Pasture degradation

• Oil extraction impacts

• Slash-and-burn agriculture

ECUADOR

(NAPO, MORONA-SANTIAGO)

• Pasture degradation (+1,5 million ha)

• Illegal crops

COLOMBIA

(CAQUETÁ)

• Social exclusion

• Mining

• Use of agrotoxics in large-scale agriculture

• Road construction impact

VENEZUELA

(AMAZONAS, Bacia do rio Cataniapo)

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SURINAME and GUYANA

A New Strategy in the Search for

Sustainable Development in the Amazon

A Consortium to implement collaborative R &

D activities to help reduce and reverse natural

resource degradation in the Amazon, through

the development of sustainable land use

systems to improve livelihood conditions of local

populations

THE AMAZON INITIATIVETHE AMAZON INITIATIVE

An Instrument for South-South Cooperation

andTransfrontier Integration

in the Amazon

An Strategic and Emblematic Region for Brazil, Bolívia and Peru

INSTITUTIONAL

ORGANIZATION,

ACTIVITIES

AND PERSPECTIVES

AMAZON INITIATIVEAMAZON INITIATIVE• Born in 2001 as a

CIAT/EMBRAPA/ICRAF/ CIFOR/IPGRI idea for a Challenge Program

• 2002 - Joined by INIEA (Peru) and CORPOICA (Colombia)

• 2003 - Joined by INIA (Venezuela), INIAP (Ecuador), MACA (Bolivia), and IICA/PROCITRÓPICOS

• 2004 – Cooperation Agreement signed during AGM-04:

• Non-Corporative Institutional Association;

• Not an Independent Autonomous Organization

AI Founding Institutions

6 National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS)

Inia

(Brazil) (Colombia) (Peru) (Bolivia) (Ecuador) (Venezuela)

4 International Research Centers of the CGIAR

1 Regional organization

AI Associate Institutions

CIAT (Bolivia), FDTA-TH (Bolivia), IIAP (Peru), UNAMAZ, others to join.

Cooperation Agreement

Biophysical drivers

DeforestationShort fallow S&B

Extensive ranchingUncontrolled logging

-scale soybeanMining

Amazon Initiative Intervention Approach

Sustainable Land Use Systems

Environmental Conservation

-Human well

being & social inclusion

Economic development

Socioeconomic drivers

INSTITUTIONS AI.

Technology

Policy

Capacity bd.

Co-mgmt.

Thematic Agenda – Sustainable Land Use: Prevention, Mitigation and Reversion Thematic Agenda – Sustainable Land Use: Prevention, Mitigation and Reversion of NR Degradationof NR Degradation

Objectives: to reconcile poverty reduction + social equity & environmental conservation in the Amazon

Diagnostics and monitoring of

degraded areas and degradation processes

Causes

Impacts

Indicators

Extent and location

Processes supporting Processes supporting sustainable land use, sustainable land use,

with a focus on with a focus on production chainsproduction chains

Labor organization/management

Market strategies for added value

Compensation for environmental services

CapacityBuilding,

Training and Outreach

Adaptive and participatory management with social inclusion

Public policies Public policies for for sustainable use of natural sustainable use of natural resources and recovery of resources and recovery of

degraded landsdegraded lands Infrastructure, credit, incentives

Forest Laws, eco-eco zoning

Land tenure, land use planning

Institutional reforms

Sustainable land use systems for prevention

and recovery of degraded lands

Management of integrated forest resources

Improved livestock & pasture management

Sustainable production of staple crops

Use & Conservation of biodiversity

Agroforestry Systems

MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION

Steering Committee

Secretariat

formalTechnical Committee Technical Committee

Thematic Network Sub -Regional Network

virtual/operationalR & D Network

Embrapa–Brazil Coordinating

Institution (first 36 months)

+ 350 scientists+ 30 institutions

Inia

BOLIVIA

VENEZUELA

PERU

ECUADOR

BRASIL

GUYANA

SURIMAN

COLOMBIA

AI Network

AI R&D NETWORK

IA Creators and ASB sites

Embrapa units

INIA units

or IA associated institutions

INIA - P. Ayacucho

CIAT & FTH: S.Cruz

INIEA & IIAP: Tarapoto

IIAP & INIEA: Iquitos

INIAP - Coca

Corpoica - Florencia

INIEA & IIAP

P.Maldonado

UAP: Cobija

CIAT: Cali

ICRAF, INIEA , IIAP

& CIFOR: Pucallpa

Embrapa & CIFOR: Belem

Embrapa: R.Branco

Embrapa: P. Velho

AI Thematic Networks

Integrated Mgt of Forestry Resouces

Pasture and Livestock Sustainability

SAFs

F

F

F

Public policies for sustainable NR use

Biodiversity use and conservation

Diagnosis of NR degradation

Value aggregation to production

Training and disseminationFood security

Environmental services

AI R&D Research Network

ArticulateFacilitate

Promote collaboration

What it will do

IntegrateComplementShareStrengthen

For what

CommunicationTrainingJoint proposalsCollaborative R&D

How

AI OPERATIONAL APPROACH

OUTROSOUTROS+

LOCAL INSTITUTIONS

INSTITUTIONAL INTEGRATION

INIAINIASS INIAINIASS INIAINIASS INIAINIASS INIAINIASS

(IFPRI) (IFPRI)+

OUTROS

+OUTROS

Adapted from: Serrão et al, 1994

(IFPRI) (IFPRI)

PPG 7SIPAMSIPAM

+LOCAL

INSTITUTIONS

+LOCAL

INSTITUTIONS

+LOCAL

INSTITUTIONS

AI DynamicsAI Dynamics

A Process, not a package

FundraisingFundraising

•Corporative projects• Smaller thematic projects

Ongoing Activities•Network organization

• Communication and dissemination

• Articulation for institutional participation in the IA

• R&D project articulation

• Fundraising

•Strategic planning

• Support to academic development

Sub-regional Workshops Basic input for

•Technical - programatic organization

•Participation in the AI

•Strategic Planning

SUB-REGIONAL WORKSHOPS ACCOMPLISHEDSUB-REGIONAL WORKSHOPS ACCOMPLISHED

•Florencia - Colombia June 7 - 10

•Tarapoto - Peru June 13 - 16

•Francisco Orellana - Ecuador July 5 - 8

• Rio Branco - Brazil August 10 - 12

• Cobija - Bolivia August 15 - 17

• Puerto Ayacucho - Venezuela September 12 - 15

• Belém - Brazil October 4 - 5

OUTPUTS OF SUB-REGIONAL WORKSHOPS OUTPUTS OF SUB-REGIONAL WORKSHOPS

•Action plan / activities of IA for the sub-region.

•IA socialization with local stateholders

•Identification of the demand priorities within the IA thematic focus

•Identification of knowledge and technological offer by local institutions

•Identification and prioritization ofkey themes and actions for IA intervention in the sub-region

•Organization of thematic networks in the sub-regions

•Identification of institutions to be associated with the AI

AI

Available Funds for 2005

• “Seed money” from INIA/Spain

• “Seed money” from founding

institutions

Strategic Partnership for the AI

• CGIAR: At the global level

• OTCA: Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization

• UNAMAZ: Assoc. of Amazonian Universities

• International Coop. Agencies: DFID, USAID, GTZ,

JICA, EU etc.

• World Bank

• Others

Perspectives for AIPerspectives for AI

Promising!Promising!

Need for a Need for a regional approachregional approach

Institutional “capital”Institutional “capital” of participating institutions of participating institutions

Network approachNetwork approach with participation of local with participation of local

stakeholdersstakeholders

Development of an Development of an Eco-regional CGIAR /AI Eco-regional CGIAR /AI

ProgramProgram

Good perspectivesGood perspectives: World Bank, INIA-Spain, JICA, : World Bank, INIA-Spain, JICA,

USAID, EUUSAID, EU

But need supportBut need support from governments, institutions from governments, institutions

and cooperation agencies and cooperation agencies

STEERING COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS (May, 2005)

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• New associated institutions, programsprograms.....................................................................

LBA and the AILBA and the AI

LBALBA and the and the AIAI

- An Expected and Timely Partnership- An Expected and Timely Partnership

LBALBA and the and the AIAI

- An Expected and Timely Partnership- An Expected and Timely Partnership

- AI as an Instrument for LBA Mainstreaming- AI as an Instrument for LBA Mainstreaming Activities in Amazonian CountriesActivities in Amazonian Countries

LBA and the AILBA and the AI

- An Expected and Timely Partnership- An Expected and Timely Partnership

- AI as an Instrument for LBA Mainstreaming- AI as an Instrument for LBA Mainstreaming in Amazonian Countriesin Amazonian Countries - LBA as AI Associated (regional) Program - LBA as AI Associated (regional) Program

Thank you!Thank you!

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