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Forest, Human Health & The Impacts of Climate Change
Climate change does impact on human health, people living in forests deal with much more immediate problems, like children dying of dysentery and malaria and other diseases. Photo by Trish Shanley
The World Health Organization (WHO) dedicated the focus of this year's World Health Day, on April 14, to “Protecting Health from the adverse effects of Climate Change”.
Though one may not readily see a connection between climate change and health, the two are inextricably linked. Studies from around the world, including from CIFOR’s Carol Colfer, demonstrate that climate and weather have a powerful impact on human life and health, especially the health of vulnerable, forest-dependent people. more
CIFOR’s African Adventure
Participants from the workshop meet with local farmers in DebreZeit, Ethiopia, some 50 km from Addis Ababa
April, 2008: A number of staff from CIFOR’s Information Services Group (ISG) gathered at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) campus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for a unique opportunity to explore and experiment with knowledge sharing (KS) principles and methods. The event was the culmination of a three-phase workshop on Information, Communication and Technology – Knowledge Management (ICT-KM), involving 40 participants from CGIAR Centres, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the Forum for Agricultural Research (FARA).
Dina Satrio and Yuan Oktafian, from the Computer Services Unit and Library Unit, attended a series of sessions designed to improve the participants’ understanding and appreciation of the role and value of KS in research and institutional arenas; to increase their capacity to apply KS concepts and approaches; and to foster interaction among CGIAR staff and research partners. more
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| • | International Scientific Congress on Climate Change,"Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions",10-12 March 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark |
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The University of Copenhagen is hosting an international scientific congress on climate change under the heading "Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions", 10-12 March 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The congress is organised in cooperation with nine other universities in the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU).
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| • | The Koli workshop 2008: Forests in the changing environment. 3-5 September 2008, Koli, Finland |
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The workshop is an integral part of the Work Programme of the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE) and it lays a basis for a regional contribution to the eighth session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF).
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| • | Forest Day 2 |
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Medina, G.; Pokorny, B.; Campbell, B.M. 2008. Favoreciendo el desarrollo local en la Amazonia: lecciones de las iniciativas de manejo forestal comunitario. CIFOR Livelihood Brief No. 8. 6p.Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia.
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Medina, G.; Pokorny, B.; Campbell, B.M. 2008. Favouring local development in the Amazon: lessons from community forest management initiatives. CIFOR Livelihood Brief No. 8. 6pCenter for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia.
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Albano, A. 2008. Forest enterprise development in Meghalaya: lessons learned from SMES. In: Darlong, V.. Livelihoods from forestry in Northeast India. 49-57.North Eastern Region Community Resource Management Project for Upland Areas (NERCORMP), Shillong, India. ISBN: 978-81-904940-69.
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Wollenberg, E.; Iwan, R.; Limberg, G.; Moeliono, M. 2008. Locating social choice in forest comanagement and local governance: the politics of public decision making and interest. In: Sikor, T. (ed.). Public and private in natural resource governance: a false dichotomy?. 16p.27-43.Earthscan, London, UK. ISBN: 978-1-84407-525-6.
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DeFries, R.; Achard, F.; Brown, S.; Herold, M.; Murdiyarso, D.; Schlamadinger, B.; de Souza, C. 2006. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in developing countries: Considerations for monitoring and measuring. Report of the Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS) No. 46. Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS),
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