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Managing Landscape Mosaics for Sustainable Livelihoods
Intermediate Goal
To improve governmental and non-governmental conservation and development policies and projects by helping policy makers and project managers understand how their actions affect livelihoods and land use and how to take advantage of synergies between livelihoods and conservation and reduce trade-offs.
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| Geographic Focus: Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, China, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Indonesia, South Africa, Tanzania, Vietnam, Zambia |
Sub Themes:
1. Enhancing Conservation and Development Outcomes
Research on integrated management of natural resources will be implemented at a number of tropical rainforest sites, including Malinau in Indonesia, in the context of the Rainforest Challenge Partnership. In Setulang village in Malinau, CIFOR is working to facilitate payments from a global biodiversity donor to a local community, from which lessons can be learnt on the feasibility of conservation concessions at the community scale. CIFOR is also participating in the ICRAF project, Rewarding the Asian Upland Poor for the Environmental Services They Provide (RUPES). Elsewhere, CIFOR is initiating work on PES in Bolivia, Ecuador and Vietnam, mostly as components of a larger project on local people and biodiversity.
Key activities:
2. Landscape Dynamics and Livelihoods
Work on landscape dynamics and the impacts for local livelihoods will be conducted primarily in Indonesia (Kutai Barat and Malinau Districts) and Brazil. Some of the Brazilian work will be conducted within the ALFA project. Research into the drivers of land-use and land-cover change will be undertaken as part of the African Dry Forests project in Burkina Faso, Zambia and Tanzania, the bamboo sector studies in China, and the studies on macroeconomic changes and forest conditions in Central Africa.
For the detailed description of the sub-themes you can download the pdf file (78KB)
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