strong link with local government agencies. The term “landscape” came up several times during the exchange. In its contribution, ICRAF highlighted the work that had begun 15 years ago in Lampung on conflict resolution in a coffee-dominated watershed that led to the Negotiation Support systems which forms the root of current integrated landscape interests. Transformations Internal newsletter of the World Agroforestry Centre Vol 7 Issue 19 11/12/2014 In this issue • Dialogue with new ministry of environment and forestry in Indonesia • Inauguration of training programme on research methods in agroforestry • Beginning of a new era in agroforestry research in India • Vacancy • Centre in the media • Grant news • Pictorial • Staff of the week Bi-weekly With the election of the new President of Indonesia Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, a new Cabinet recently took office. It includes a new ministry that combines the agendas of environment and forestry. The minister appointed to this docket, Dr. Siti Nurbaya, worked with ICRAF 15 years ago when she was at the Provincial Planning Office in Lampung Province. She obtained her bachelor’s and doctorate degrees from Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) and her masters at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente in 1988. To bring the new ministry up to speed on current issues, the Minister organized a three-day consultation with representatives from various institutes. Senior civil servants from both former ministries were also in attendance. ICRAF and CIFOR were invited for a session with other international (bilateral and multilateral) agencies. Most of the discussions pointed towards the relevance of combining the two former ministries, that is, environment and forestry, to form an organization that will have a Dialogue with new ministry of environment and forestry in Indonesia By Beria Leimona and Meine van Noordwijk Government officials listen to some of the presentations Dr. Siti Nurbaya makes her contribution Dr. Siti Nurbaya was the first woman to hold the position of Secretary General of the Regional Representatives Council. She began her career in 1979 as an agricultural campaign specialist in the Lampung provincial government.
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strong link with local government agencies. The term “landscape” came up several times during the exchange.
In its contribution, ICRAF highlighted the work that had begun 15 years ago in Lampung on conflict resolution in a coffee-dominated watershed that led to the Negotiation Support systems which forms the root of current integrated landscape interests.
TransformationsI nternal newsletter of the Wor ld Agroforest r y Centre
Vol 7 Issue 19 11/12/2014
I n t h i s i s s u e• Dialogue with new ministry of environment
and forestry in Indonesia
• Inauguration of training programme on research methods in agroforestry
• Beginning of a new era in agroforestry research in India
• Vacancy
• Centre in the media
• Grant news
• Pictorial
• Staff of the week
Bi-weekly
With the election of the new President of Indonesia Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, a new Cabinet recently took office. It includes a new ministry that combines the agendas of environment and forestry. The minister appointed to this docket, Dr. Siti Nurbaya, worked with ICRAF 15 years ago when she was at the Provincial Planning Office in Lampung Province. She obtained her bachelor’s and doctorate degrees from Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) and her masters at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente in 1988.
To bring the new ministry up to speed on current issues, the Minister organized a three-day consultation with representatives from various institutes. Senior civil servants from both former ministries were also in attendance.
ICRAF and CIFOR were invited for a session with other international (bilateral and multilateral) agencies. Most of the discussions pointed towards the relevance of combining the two former ministries, that is, environment and forestry, to form an organization that will have a
Dialogue with new ministry of environment and forestry in IndonesiaBy Beria Leimona and Meine van Noordwijk
Government officials listen to some of the presentations
Dr. Siti Nurbaya makes her contribution
Dr. Siti Nurbaya was the first woman to hold the position of Secretary General of the Regional Representatives Council. She began her career in 1979 as an agricultural campaign specialist in the Lampung provincial government.
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An international training programme on research methods in agroforestry was inaugurated on 1-5 December 2014 in Jhansi. The event was jointly organized by ICAR-Central Agroforestry Research Institute (CAFRI) and ICRAF’s South Asia Programme.
During the workshop, Dr S K Dhyani, Director, CAFRI, emphasized the need to learn from the experiences of the Agroforestry Network programme successfully implemented for more than three decades in India and other countries. He introduced the salient points of the National Agroforestry Policy 2014 and efforts being made to implement the policy guidelines.
Dr Ajit, Principal Scientist, IASRI, New Delhi and National Resources highlighted the research that has been undertaken on agroforestry to mitigate climate change effects. In his presentation, Dr Richard Coe, Principal Scientist (Research Methods) at the World Agroforestry Centre
shared the need for researchers to understand how general principles of experimental design can be put into practice in agroforestry experiments, including participatory trials done with farmers.
The training programme aimed to help researchers design practical, valid and efficient agroforestry experiments that meet useful objectives. Researchers were introduced to some of the modern areas of experimentation, including multi-environment trials for understanding complex interactions with ecological and social factors.
Participants were drawn from some of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries, namely Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Also present were scientists working under the Agroforestry Network from 16 State Agricultural Universities in India.
The event received extensive coverage in the local press.
Inauguration of training programme on research methods in agroforestry
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Since the inception of organized agroforestry research at global level, India has remained on the forefront, promoting this land management system. In 1983, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) launched an All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) on Agroforestry which was implemented in 20 centres located in 18 provinces across the country. This was followed by the establishment of a National Research Centre on Agroforestry in 1988 at Jhansi, U.P. In the past 26 years, the Centre has excelled in achieving its mandate and objectives. It also coordinated and managed one of the largest research network projects, the AICRP on Agroforestry, which currently works in 39 centres located throughout the country.
The National Research Centre on Agroforestry has developed a number of farmer-friendly agroforestry technologies and contributed to natural resource conservation at both national and international levels. In the past few years, the Centre has focused on mitigating climate change and its carbon sequestration potential, development of soil quality index and use of remote sensing and GIS technology in demarcating agroforestry areas at national level. Besides research activities, the Centre made a significant contribution in capacity building of farmers, researchers and policy makers.
ICRAF has also been actively involved in agroforestry research in India in the past decades. It contributed to HRD and provided support during the diagnostic and design survey conducted under AICRP on Agroforestry. The partnership between NRCAF and the World Agroforestry Centre has continued to grow, and in 2007 they worked together to produce and implement a joint workplan. The two institutions have worked on domestication, utilization and conservation of superior agroforestry germplasm, maximizing on-farm productivity of trees and agroforestry systems, developing the National Agroforestry Policy for India, and organizing the 3rd World Congress on Agroforestry. ICRAF and NRCAF
also worked closely in an ongoing capacity building programme for Indian and regional scientists on various aspects of agroforestry.
After 26 years of successful research and development activities on agroforestry, ICAR has elevated the status of the NRCAF to a Central Agroforestry Research Institute (CAFRI). In his congratulatory message, Dr. S. Ayyappan, Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE) and Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) noted, “The Centre’s significant research and services for agroforestry has been well recognized hence, ICAR has decided to transform it into the Central Agroforestry Research Institute.” The newly declared institute will expand its activities in some of the upcoming researches like estimation of environment and ecosystem services, mapping of agroforestry through geoinformatics techniques, developing tree-signatures of important agroforestry species, increasing water use efficiency of agroforestry systems, agroforestry for biofuel and bioenergy and livelihood options through agroforestry.
With the elevation of NRCAF into a Central Agroforestry Research Institute, the partnership with ICRAF is expected to grow even stronger. “This is a fantastic and well deserved recognition for all your and others efforts to raise the profile and impact of agroforestry in India. The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) takes this opportunity to congratulate you and ICAR, and to pledge our support for continued collaboration and engagement,” noted Tony Simons, Director General of ICRAF in a congratulatory note to Dr. Shiv Kumar Dhyani, Director of the Central Agroforestry Research Institute.
ICRAF’s Regional Director for South Asia, Dr. Javed Rizvi visited the newly created CAFRI to congratulate the scientists, and to assure them of an even stronger collaboration between the two institutions.
Beginning of a new era in agroforestry research in IndiaBy Javed Rizvi
Position Job Category Duty Station Closing Date
Project Manager – ESAf Nationally Recruited Nairobi 5th January 2015
NRCAF staff and partners celebrate the institution’s upgrade to CAFRI
For more information go to http://worldagroforestry.org/working-for-icraf/vacancies
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G R A N T N E W S
GMIS Grant Ref: IRLD-1126
Grant Title: Enhancing Integrated Watershed Management with Climate-Smart Agriculture in Geregera Watershed, Ethiopia
Donor: Irish Aid
Amount (approx. US$): 308,400.00
Start Date: 01 Jul 2014
End Date: 31 Dec 2015
Project Leader: Kiros Hadgu
GMIS Grant Ref: ILRI-1127
Grant Title: A Support Hub for Evidence-Based Decision-Making: Piloting a Co-learning and Decision-Making Process for Achieving Resilient Impacts at Scale in the Horn of Africa and Assessing Resilience in the Horn of Africa - An Applied Information Economics Approach
Donor: International Livestock Research Institute
Amount (approx. US$): 309,912.00
Start Date: 07 Oct 2014
End Date: 31 Dec 2014
Project Leader: Constance Neely
GMIS Grant Ref: USAD-1128
Grant Title: Scaling Up Resilience-Smart Agroforestry Technologies for Improved Market Access, Food and Nutritional Security in Mali
Donor: United States Agency for International Development
Amount (approx. US$): 1,960,000.00
Start Date: 01 Oct 2014
End Date: 30 Sep 2015
Project Leaders: Antoine Kalinganire and Zacharie Tchoundjeu
GMIS Grant Ref: NRIZ-112
Grant Title: Optimisation of Pesticidal Plants: Technology Innovation, Outreach and Networks (OPTIONs)
Donor: Natural Resources Institute
Amount (approx. US$): 108,598.82
Start Date: 01 Jul 2014
End Date: 30 Jun 2015
Project Leaders: Daniel Ofori and Ramni Harmanjeet
GMIS Grant Ref: IBRD-1130
Grant Title: Taking to Scale Tree-Based Ecosystem Approaches that Enhance Food Security, Improve Resilience to Climate Change and Sequester Carbon in Malawi
Donor: World Bank
Amount (approx. US$): 125,990.00
Start Date: 02 Sep 2014
End Date: 31 Jul 2015
Project Leaders: Godfrey Kundlande and Isaac Nyoka
GMIS Grant Ref: WCFZ-1131
Grant Title: WCF Echoes - Zongokro, Akpouekro and M’brakro
Donor: World Cocoa Foundation
Amount (approx. US$): 285,346.00
Start Date: 14 Jun 2014
End Date: 14 Dec 2014
Project Leader: Zacharie Tchoundjeu
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Name: Martin Reyes-Acevedo
Title: Spatial Research Associate
Station/region: Peru, Latin America
Years at ICRAF: 1 year
Favourite sport: Volleyball
Favourite book or magazine: La Ciudad y los Perros by Mario Vargas Llosa
Favourite music: 1980s alternative rock, new wave, indie
Hobbies: Travelling, yoga, painting
My favourite tree is queñoal (Polylepis sp.) because of its multiple very thin reddish/brownish layers which protect the stem from drying. The tree also plays an important role in the storage of water in upper basins, and in fixing soil nutrients